High performance and high temperature polymers are a class of polymeric materials exhibiting high thermal stability and their resistance to fire makes them valuable assets for many applications. Those applications include as typical examples high temperature gas separation membranes, automotive and aerospace industry as well as the construction industry. The high performance polymers have been synthesized since the early 1960s, and have developed rapidly over the past few decades. Most high performance polymers comprise a highly aromatic backbone, linear chains, and strong inter-chain interactions. This review deals mostly with commercial polymeric materials. Studies regarding their thermal behavior, degradation mechanism and their reaction to fire have been synthetically combined in order to bring out potential insight concerning the effect of the thermal decomposition and thermal behavior on the fire properties of those polymers.

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高性能聚合物的热降解和燃烧行为

高性能和高温聚合物是一类具有高热稳定性的聚合物材料，其耐火性使其成为许多应用的宝贵资产。这些应用包括高温气体分离膜，汽车和航空航天工业以及建筑业的典型例子。高性能聚合物自1960年代初开始合成，并在过去的几十年中发展迅速。大多数高性能聚合物包含高度芳香的主链，线性链和强烈的链间相互作用。这篇评论主要涉及商业聚合物材料。有关其热行为的研究，