A novel flame retardant material for fabricated cotton and its mixture with polyester (50/50)

Abstract Cotton fibers found large applications especially in the woven and non-woven industrials. The cotton fibers exhibit good properties but it have main drawback because it is easy and rapid flammable. To overcome on this drawback, several works were done. These works focused on the properties of fibers or treated with flame retardant materials. The present work aimed to study the flammability of fibers in presence of flame retardant materials. A novel flame retardant material was prepared by using simple method. The produced sample contains the Ammonium poly phosphate (APP), montmorillonite (Mt) and Melamine (M). The prepared samples were characterized by using Fourier transforms infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, Scanning electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA). Also, the flammability of the treated samples was done by using the limiting oxygen index (LOI). The results of characterization indicated that the flame retardant formula was incorporated into the fibers as shown SEM. The mechanism of the incorporation was discussed, the flammability results show that the values for LOI increases from 19.2 for 100%cotton to 26.2 for treated samples.