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Impact of a conditioning step during the treatment of wood with melamine-formaldehyde resin on dimensional stabilisation
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Holzforschung, Volume 78, issue 1, pp. 37-46
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The dimensional stabilisation of wood using thermosetting resins relies on the resin uptake into the cell walls. This study tested if a conditioning step after the impregnation and before the final heat-curing enhances the cell wall uptake to improve dimensional stabilisation without increasing the chemical consumption. Small blocks of Scots pine sapwood were vacuum-impregnated with an aqueous melamine formaldehyde solution and conditioned at 33, 70, or 95 % RH for up to 1 week before drying and curing the blocks at 103 °C. However, the conditioning step decreased the cell wall bulking and the moisture exclusion effect compared to the immediate heat curing of the impregnated samples. Analyses of the resin-treated samples by scanning electron microscopy, IR spectroscopy and confocal Raman microspectroscopy provided evidence of wood hydrolysis and polycondensation of the resin within the cell lumen during the conditioning step. Hydrolysis and removal of wood constituents may have counterbalanced the cell wall bulking of the resin. Polycondensation of the resin in the lumen increased its molecule size, which could have hindered the cell wall diffusion of the resin.
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Funding Information: Research funding: This work received funding from the Research Council of Finland (grant no. 341701). Publisher Copyright: © 2023 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston 2023.
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Sultan, M T, Altgen, D, Awais, M, Rautkari, L & Altgen, M 2024, 'Impact of a conditioning step during the treatment of wood with melamine-formaldehyde resin on dimensional stabilisation', Holzforschung, vol. 78, no. 1, pp. 37-46. https://doi.org/10.1515/hf-2023-0084