Review of Wood Modification and Wood Functionalization Technologies

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A2 Katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2022-07
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en
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Forests, Volume 13, issue 7
Abstract
Wood modifications are becoming popular as a way to enhance the performance of wood, either to make it more durable, improve the performance of wood, or give it new functionality as a multifunctional or smart material. While wood modifications have been examined since the early 1900s, the topic has become a dominant area of study in wood science over the past decade. This review summarizes recent advances and provides future perspective on a selection of wood modifications, i.e., the methods that are currently commercialized (acetylation, furfurylation, and thermal modification), a rediscovered ancient practice (charring), a family of polymerization modifications that have so far made it to the pilot scale, and examples of novel wood-based functional materials explored at laboratory scale.
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Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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acetylation, biodeterioration, chemical modification, furfurylation, thermal modification, wood decay, wood protection, wood-based functional materials
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Zelinka, S L, Altgen, M, Emmerich, L, Guigo, N, Keplinger, T, Kymäläinen, M, Thybring, E E & Thygesen, L G 2022, ' Review of Wood Modification and Wood Functionalization Technologies ', Forests, vol. 13, no. 7, 1004 . https://doi.org/10.3390/f13071004