Full-scale building tests by IFV Netherlands show dangers from upholstered furniture fires. IFV carried out 19 full-scale fire and smoke propagation tests in a 4-storey disused residential building dating from 1973, comparing fires involving only a standard 2-place...
New wash-resistant Si – N – P flame retardants developed by DTNW in German government innovation project. The AiF-IGF project No. 19617 N has developed new silane-based PIN FRs, containing silicon, phosphorus and nitrogen, using industrially available amino...
New phosphorus-based PIN FRs developed by DTNW for textiles show wash resistance. Cyclophosphazenes and their derivatives (CPZs) are heterocycle 6-atom rings with alternating P and N atoms with six attached reactive groups. They are versatile chemical building blocks...
Electrospinning offers routes to develop new FR fibre solutions with improved mechanical properties, e.g. with multiple materials. Electrospinning is a known process for producing continuous polymer fibres, with diameters from 100 nm to 10 µm, or fibre mats. Injection...
PIN FRs, 3D DOPO (P-based) and ferrocene (Fe-based), reacted onto cotton provided durable fire resistance and waterproofing. Cotton fabric was first grafted with PEI (polyethyleneimine) then reacted in alcohol solution at 60°C with first ferrocene then DOPO...
