Burning Issues: The Role of Furnishings

Damant, Gordon H.

doi:10.1177/073490419100900101

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“…The Consumer Products Safety Commission is responsible for existing and proposed United States flammability regulations of soft furnishings [5,6,7], which are based on extensive research and review of the fire behavior of soft furnishings [8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20]. These regulations, as well as the introduction of Reduced Ignition Propensity cigarettes [21], are expected to significantly reduce the $5 billion annual cost of soft furnishing fires.…”

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Fabrication, characterization and flammability testing of carbon nanofiber layer-by-layer coated polyurethane foam

Davis¹,

Kim²

2010

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This is the first reported use of Layer-by-Layer (LBL) assembly to fabricate thin film coatings on polyurethane foam, of incorporating carbon nanofibers (CNF) into LBL fabricated coatings, and of using LBL fabricated coatings to reduce the flammability of polyurethane foam. The (359 ± 36) nm thick four bilayer coating of polyethyleneimine/CNF (cationic layer) and poly(acrylic acid) (anionic layer) contained (50.9 ± 0.1) mass fraction % CNF. This CNF coating covered the entire internal and external surfaces of the porous foam. The distribution of the CNFs was nonuniform on the microscale with regions of large CNF aggregation to regions with individual CNFs and isolated regions that appeared to contain no CNFs. Even though the microscopic CNF distribution was non-uniform, the macroscopic CNF network armor that was generated from this LBL process significantly reduced the flammability of the foam; i.e., 55% ± 6% reduction in total heat release and peak heat release rate. This reduction caused by the CNF coating is 50% better than previously reported by incorporating twice as much CNFs directly into the foam and 12% to 47% greater than other technologies currently used to reduce foam flammability.

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