@article{ref1,
title="Flame-retardant cotton barrier nonwovens for mattresses",
journal="Journal of fire sciences",
year="2013",
author="Parikh, Dharnidhar and Ingber, Bruce and Nam, Sunghyun and Bhat, Gajanan and Warnock, Mary and Harrington, Lee",
volume="31",
number="3",
pages="276-290",
abstract="According to regulation CPSC 16 CFR 1633, every new residential mattress sold in the United States since July 2007 must resist ignition by open flame. An environmentally benign &quot;green,&quot; inexpensive way to meet this regulation is to use a low-cost flame-retardant barrier fabric. In this study, a nonwoven fabric of grey unbleached cotton was treated with a low-cost phosphate-based formulation. The energy-dispersive X-ray microanalysis showed uniform nitrogen and phosphorus distribution. With 17% add-on, the flame-retardant unbleached cotton barrier showed a limiting oxygen index of 33% oxygen and 83 mm of char length with no after-flame and no afterglow in the vertical flame test. Under air and nitrogen at 500°C, 24% and 35% char remained after thermogravimetric analyses, respectively. This flame resistance is comparable to that of current commercial barrier fabrics made from bleached cotton and Flovan cyanoguanidine or from T-bond grey cotton fiber highlofts (Jones Fiber). Mattresses constructed with a flame-retardant cotton nonwoven barrier fabric are predicted to meet the requirements of 16CFR1633. As a follow-up to this study, a full-scale mattress burn test is recommended.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0734-9041",
doi="10.1177/0734904112468703",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0734904112468703"
}