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Fabric-based materials such as textiles and papers are widely used in our daily life. However, most of conventional fabrics are highly combustible and easily stained by water and household liquids, susceptible to fire risks and surface contamination/staining. Herein, a non-fluorinated coating that contains the flame-retardants ammonium polyphosphate/pentaerythrotol (APP/PER) and water-repellent silica nanoparticles-polydimethylsiloxane (SiO2@PDMS) is developed. The coated fabric materials prevent fire propagation and are repellant to water, coffee, milk etc. The heat release rate of the SiO2@PDMS/APP/PER-coated cotton fabric is 46.33% lower than that of pure cotton fabric, and the amount of the char yield is increased by 40.4%. The coatings are durable, resistant to mechanical abrasion and have a long life-time exposure to corrosive liquids and intense UV radiation. The coated fabric materials also exhibit good organic solvent/oil and water separation capability at reduced risks of fire. The facile

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In this work, we converted inherently hydrophilic and flammable epoxy resins to resist both fire and water. This was achieved by integrating surface modified flame-retardant CoFe 2 O 4 nanoparticles into the epoxy resin. The modified CoFe 2 O 4 nanoparticles reduce the peak heat release rate, peak smoke production release and CO production in the CoFe 2 O 4 /epoxy resin nanocomposite by 39.6, 41.6, and 61.3%, respectively. The obtained flame retardant CoFe 2 O 4 /EP items demonstrate excellent durability with constant superhydrophobicity even after high external pressure, knife-scratch, and mechanical abrasion. In addition, the obtained items demonstrate outstanding robust water-repellent properties after facing longterm exposure to extremely corrosive liquids and also show self-cleaning properties in air and under oil.

Boron nitride nanosheet (BNNS) decorated with cobalt ferrite nanoparticle (CFN) to afford CFN-BNNS nanohybrid was prepared via a simple hydrothermal route and was well characterized. Subsequently, the as-prepared CFN-BNNS nanohybrid was incorporated into epoxy resin (EP) with the introduction of a weak rotary magnetic field to achieve order orientation, in order to reduce the fire risk and toxic hazards using enhanced shielding effect of BNNS upon combustion. Findings demonstrate that the CFN-BNNS nanohybrid is composed of CFN nanoparticle uniformly dispersed on BNNS surface. Thermal analysis and cone calorimeter data show that the CFN-BNNS nanofiller among EP matrix contributes to improving the char residues and mechanical properties of EP and reducing its fire risk as well as toxic hazards, especially the ordered one is advantageous over the disordered one in reducing the fire risk and toxic hazard. This is because, on the one hand, the orderly aligned BNNS as the physical barrier can more effectively prevent the transfer and diffusion of oxygen and heat. On the other hand, CFN can catalyze the degradation of EP to afford excessive chars on polymer surface; and it is also liable to decomposition during combustion, thereby generating ferrite species to promote EP degradation as well as cobalt species to enhance the oxidation of CO.