We all know wood is an important material for many every-day applications such as construction and carpentry. Interaction with water is vital for growing trees but it is also important …
Wood is a naturally hygroscopic material, and the atmospheric water molecules interact with sorption sites in the cell wall, causing changing moisture contents depending on the relative humidity of the …
Due to the inherent biological nature, wood is susceptible to microbial degradation. Traditionally, broad toxicity biocides have been used to protect wood against decay, but these are gradually being phased …
Wood has very good properties as a building material, such as high stiffness to weight ratio and good insulation properties, and it is also biodegradable at the end of the …
Understanding wood-water interaction is crucial to predict and possibly manipulate dimensional changes and degradation of structural wood (Sandberg 2017; Thybring 2021; Thybring 2018). Raman Spectroscopy (RS) has been used with …
Thermal modification increases the service life of wood by removing or reducing a prerequisite for fungal degradation: water within the material (Hill et al., 2021). However, there is a lack …
Hot water extraction (HWE) treatment changes the physicochemical properties of the wood, including hygroscopic properties. HWE treatment decreases the hydroxyl (OH) accessibility of the wood, but the relevance of other …
