The invention provides a novel fire extinguishing material and a preparation method thereof. According to the novel fire extinguishing material and the preparation method thereof,
acrylic acid and
acrylamide are used as water-absorbing monomers to be subjected to cross-linking reaction under the action of a cross-linking agent and an initiator so as to generate gel,
chitosan is added in the
gel preparation process, so that the rigidity of the gel is improved, the water
absorption rate of the gel is increased, and the gel is not liable to be dried and cracked at a high temperature; and a surface
active agent is further compounded to form a stable and efficient
foaming agent, abundant and compact foams are formed through high-speed stirring at the later stage of the cross-linking reaction soas to achieve the fire extinguishing effect, in addition, the formation of gel pores is facilitated by the aid of a stabilizer and a pore-forming agent of
sodium carbonate at the later stage of the
gel forming process, so that the swelling rate can be greatly increased, meanwhile,
ammonium polyphosphate is modified, so that the hydrophobicity and the
grafting performance can be improved, and
grafting is carried out on the gel by utilizing the cross-linking reaction, so that the fire extinguishing performance can be further improved. The fire extinguishing material has the advantages of beinghigh in fire extinguishing performance, high in speed, good in effect, capable of improving the fire extinguishing efficiency, capable of preventing recrudescence of a fire, low in application cost and suitable for large-scale popularization.