Serishm: an Eco-Friendly and Biodegradable Flame Retardant for Fabrics

Biodegradable and eco-friendly materials are preferred due to less environmental impacts in compare to ‎synthetic and chemical compounds. Serishm is considered to be a protein based material including Collagen ‎and a suitable fire retardant for fabrics. However there is a lack of scientific experimental results to show the ‎capability of using this material as the fire retardant for fabrics. Therefore, in this work, 23 various samples in ‎fabric type, Serishm content were investigated under various conditions of pad pressure, padding times and ‎method of coating. Flame retardancy and physical properties of each sample were evaluated. According to the test ‎results, polyester fabric coated by Serishm showed better flame retardancy in compare to cotton and ‎cotton/polyester fabrics. By increasing the padding times, the sample was capable to stop the firing procedure. ‎The conventional coating showed better results in compared to padding methods. The results showed that ‎injection molding was the best method in compare to conventional and padding methods. It was concluded ‎that the protein resin penetrated completely into the fabric texture during injection molding. Hence, by applying ‎Serishm through injection method even cotton fabrics showed better flame retardancy.‎

Keywords:

Eco-friendly , Biodegradable , Flame retardant , Fabric , Serishm