Innovative Approaches for Improving Properties of Wood and Wood-Based Materials
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Wood Science and Forest Products".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2024) | Viewed by 24182
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wood modification; wood structure and properties; hygroscopic properties; nanotechnology; durability; biopolymers
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Interests: wood structure and properties; drying and modification of wood; abiotic degradation of wood; hardwoods
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The forestry-wood chain has developed over the past decades and nowadays, ecosystem services are important in the context of sustainability. Forests aim to provide services for the bio-economy, biodiversity and climate regulation. The increased demand for renewable resources has led to an increased interest in the production of lignocellulosic biomass for both material and energy use, in other words, to an increase in wood production. Whilst the timber sector recognizes these increasing needs, it also realizes that a lot of research and development will be required in overcoming these problems. A manifest way, nowadays, is the development of various new methods to improve the properties of wood and wood-based materials, and with that, to increase the service life of such products. New ways in this field include the use of different physical, chemical or biological effects on wood and wood-based materials to make improvements in targeted properties, such as improving biological durability, dimensional stability, wetting properties, and UV resistance. This Special Issue plans to offer an overview of the most recent advances in the field of the use of nanotechnology, plasma treatments, enzymatic treatments and the use of different combined modifications to obtain high-performance bio-based materials and composites.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Wood modification;
- Use of nanomaterials in wood and wood-based materials;
- Plasma treatments;
- Weather resistant wood and wood-based materials;
- Decay resistant wood and wood-based materials;
- Dimensionally stable wood and wood-based materials;
- Future perspectives for innovative approaches in wood modification.
Dr. Miklós Bak
Prof. Dr. Róbert Németh
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wood modification
- nanomaterials
- plasma treatment
- enzymatic treatment
- high-performance wood-based materials
- material properties
- combined modification methods
- biomaterials
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