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JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
Volume 365, Issue -, Pages 125-136Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2018.10.099
Keywords
Nacre-inspired; Nanocoating; Fire-safe; Montmorillonite; Chitosan
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51773064, 51403067]
- Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province [2017A030313303]
- Pearl River S&T Nova Program of Guangzhou [201710010062]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2018MS04]
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Developing a high efficient, environmental-friendly and universal fire-safe strategy for combustible polymers is crucial but challengeable. Inspired by nacre, we developed a super-efficiently fire-safe nanocoating based on carboxymethyl chitosan (CCS) and modified montmorillonite (MMT) via one-step self-assembly. The nano coating possessed well-arranged nacre-like hierarchical microstructure, exhibiting high transparency and specific nacre-like iridescence. More importantly, the nanocoating endowed many large-scale polymer substrates, such as polyester film, cotton fabric and polyurethane foam, with super-efficient fire-safety by dip-coating or spray-coating. All the coated substrates were self-extinguished in the burning tests. Meanwhile, their heat release and smoke production were decreased remarkably. Most notably, the peak heat release rate, total heat release, peak smoke production rate and total smoke production of polyurethane foam were decreased by 84.1%, 89.4%, 84.4% and 95.2%, respectively. Additionally, no organic solvent, halogen and phosphorus element were involved, which was environmental-friendly. Our findings provide a super-efficient, economical, universal and green fabrication strategy for fire-safe polymers.
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