To improve flame retardancy of wood, a novel high-water-retention and self-healing polyvinyl alcohol/phytic acid/MXene hydrogel coating was developed through facile one-pot heating and freeze–thaw cycle methods, and then painted on wood surface. The coating exhibit excellent self-healing property and significantly enhanced water-retention property (water content ≥ 90 wt%), due to the increased hydrogen bonds within the coating system with the presence of MXene nanosheets. Compared to pristine wood, the flame retardancy of coated wood is greatly improved, such as passed V0 rating in UL-94 test, increasing time to ignition (TTI, from 32 to 69 s), and decreased heat release rate and total heat release by 41.6% and 36.14%. The cooling effect and large thermal capacity of high-water-retention hydrogel, and physical barrier effects for flammable gas products, heat and oxygen by MXene nanosheets and the compact char layer formed during combustion play key roles in the flame retardancy enhancements of the wood. High thermal stability of MXene nanosheets is another beneficial factor. The detailed flame-retardant and self-healing mechanisms were proposed.
Yaohui Liu,Qiuxia Yang,Xiaotian Chen,Yumei Song,Qinghui Wu,Yunyun Yang,Liping He
In this article, an ambient mass spectrometric method with molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP)-coated wooden tips was developed for sensitive analysis of trace macrolide antibiotics in complex food samples. A novel solid-phase microextraction (SPME) probe was prepared, via the modification of a layer MIP coating (with roxithromycin as template molecule) on the surface of wooden tips. The obtained MIP-coated wooden-tip SPME probe can be applied directly to enrich trace macrolide antibiotics from complex food samples, with enrichment factors of 244–1604, 72–370, and 12–82 folds for analysis of five investigated macrolide antibiotics in drinking water , honey, and milk samples, respectively. After extraction, a high voltage and some spray solvent were applied on the loaded SPME probe to desorb and ionize analytes enriched on the probe surface for electrospray ionization mass spectrometric (ESI-MS) analysis under ambient and open-air conditions. The method showed good linearity, with correlation coefficient values ( r 2 ) no less than 0.9904, and the calibration function was verified via Mandel's fitting test ( p > 0.063). The limits of detection were in the range of 0.003–0.05, 1.1–5.1, and 1.9–15.8 ng/g for analysis of drinking water, honey, and milk samples, respectively. Recoveries of the five targeted macrolide antibiotics in honey and milk samples ranged from 73.4% to 98.1%, with the standard deviations no higher than 8.6%. As a result, MIP-coated wooden-tip ESI-MS method could be feasibly used as a sensitive method for determination of trace macrolide antibiotics in complex food samples.