The review of flame retardancy on textiles

The main types of flame retardant agents(inorganic and organic flame retardant agents,such as halogen flame retardant,organic phosphorus-based flame retardant),mechanism(heat-absorbing function,cov-ering,restraining chain reaction,diluting effect of gas,condensed phase flame retardancy) and technology of flame retardant finish(nano-flame retardancy,microcapsulation of flame retardancy,super refine,surface modi-fication,smoke abatement,crosslinking and macromolecule technology etc.) were discussed.The testing meth-ods of evaluating flame retardant effect(combustion experiment method,limited oxygen index method,smoke test,flash point and self-ignition point measurement,thermal analysis of flame retardant finish etc.) were simply introduced.It was pointed out that the direction of flame retardant textiles was to develop high efficiency,low toxicity,low smoke,more cost-effective and multi-functional textiles.