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Novel P/Si based nanoparticles for durable flame retardant application on cotton

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Cotton fabric has a wide application due to its hygroscopicity, air permeability, and large production of cotton fiber used to make the fabric. However, cotton materials are a safety hazard during its application because of flammability (limiting oxygen index is about 18%). In order to improve the flame retardancy of cotton fibers and reduce the damage of its mechanical properties, novel P/Si based flame retardant (PFR) nanoparticles were synthesized by one-step radical polymerization. Vinyl phosphoric acid and tetramethyl divinyl disiloxane were introduced into the nanoparticles. The structure, morphology and thermal stability of PFR was characterized by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), thermogravimetric analysis test (TGA). Durable flame retardant cotton fibers were prepared by dip-coating and plasma induced crosslinking methods. Micro-calorimeter (MCC) characterization showed that the peak of heat release rate (pHRR) and the total heat release (THR) were reduced by 47.3% and 29.8% for modified cotton fibers compared with pure cotton fibers. Limiting oxygen index (LOI) of modified cotton fibers was increased to 27%. The residue carbon of modified cotton fibers was 19.0% at 700 °C, while the value of pure cotton fibers was 3.0%. Besides, durability of the modified cotton fibers was approved by cyclic washing test. In addition, flame retardant mechanism was revealed by collecting and analyzing condensed and gaseous pyrolysis products. The data of FE-SEM for residue carbon, FT-IR spectra of products at different pyrolysis temperatures and pyrolysis gas chromatography mass spectrometry (Py-GC–MS) showed that PFR was a synergistic flame retardant contained barrier and quenching effecting applied on cotton materials.

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Novel phosphorus-silicon based nanoparticles were synthesized by one-step radical polymerization and applied to improve the flame retardant of cotton materials by dip-coating and plasma induced crosslinking.

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The research is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Project Number 2017YFB0309001), the Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (18ZR1400400, 18ZR1400500, 20ZR1402100), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and Graduate Student Innovation Fund of Donghua University (CUSF-DHD-2019049).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Textile Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Textiles, Donghua University, Songjiang District, Shanghai, 201620, China

    Na Li, Panpan Chen, Dongni Liu, Gaowei Kang, Faxue Li & Dequn Wu

  2. Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology, Donghua University, North Renmin Rd., Songjiang District, Shanghai, 201620, 2999, China

    Liu Liu, Jianyong Yu & Dequn Wu

  3. School of Textile and Cloting, Nantong University, Nantong, 226019, Jiangsu Province, China

    Liyun Xu

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Li, N., Chen, P., Liu, D. et al. Novel P/Si based nanoparticles for durable flame retardant application on cotton. Cellulose 29, 2063–2076 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-021-04309-4

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