Wood Protection through Innovative Coatings and Films
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 276
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
It is our pleasure to announce the Coatings Special Issue titled "Wood Protection through Innovative Coatings and Films", and to invite you to submit your valuable contributions.
This Special Issue focuses on exploring new technologies and advances in coatings and treatments for wood protection. It covers topics such as the coating of new wooden and wood-based materials, innovative processes, and methods for enhancing the durability of wood through coating, as well as novel approaches to improving the performance of wood-based products. Additionally, it examines the environmental impacts of wood protection by surface treatment, and the potential for more sustainable coated wood-based products.
In particular, topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Types of novel wood protection coating treatments;
- Surface treatment of new wood-based materials;
- Enhance the durability of wood with innovative coating treatments;
- Improving properties of surface-treated wood;
- Maintenance of wood protection treatments;
- Application techniques for wood protection treatments;
- Latest developments in wood protection treatments;
- Durability of protective coatings and treatments;
- Environmental impacts/LCA of wood protection.
This Special Issue is aimed at presenting the latest developments in this field, through both original research papers and review articles.
Dr. Åsa Rydell Blom
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- wood-based materials
- protection
- durability
- wood
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