In the doctoral dissertation, functional polyamide textiles with increased thermal stability were prepared by three processes of chemical modification of polyamide 6 (PA6) fibers, by sol-gel application of combination of flame retardants 9,10-dihydro-9-oxa-10-phosphaphenanthrene-10-oxide-modified vinyl trialkoxysilane (DOPO–VTS) and tetraethoxysilane (TEOS) onto flat textiles, with melt spinning process of filament yarn samples with incorporated flame retardant (FR) additives melamine cyanurate (MeCy), aluminium diethylphosphinate (AlPi), sodium aluminosilicate (SASi), carbon nanotubes (CNT) and carbon black (CB), and melt spinning of the newly synthesized PA6 copolymer with a directly included flame retardant group DOPO (PA/DCA) on the polyamide chain. The results indicate that the presence of the sol-gel finishing DOPO-TEOS reduced PA6 decomposition rate and favored char formation, which confirms an increase in thermo-oxidative (TO) stability. The presence of the coating reinforce the fibre structure, stopped melt dripping but did not prevent the burning of PA6. FR additive MeCy had the biggest flame retardant influence on the PA6 filament yarns by decreasing the onset temperature of thermo-oxidative and increasing char stability at 800 °C The presence of MeCy completely stopped the flaming combustion of the filament. While SASi and CB interacted with MeCy, the addition of AlPi and CNT in a mixture with MeCy inhibit flame retardant properties of MeCy and only slightly improve TO stability of composite filament yarn samples. The presence of DOPO in copolymer caused a decrease of the onset temperature of the TO-decomposition of PA/DCA, a decrease of the decomposition temperature of the first step of degradation, and a slight increase of the temperature of the decomposition of the second step compared to PA6 and influence in the reduction of amount of residue. This indicates the operation of DOPO in the gas phase. The burning time of the PA/DCA copolymer yarn sample was significantly reduced compared to the burning of PA6 yarn, but the dripping melt of the copolymer was not self-extinguishing. These results were not as good as on films prepared from PA/DCA, where the dripping melt of the copolymer did not burn. The addition of all FR additives increased the degree of crystallinity of the yarn and slightly reduced its tensile properties
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