Wood modification with resin impregnation technology for value-added services
Plantation forests have taken the responsibility for sustainable supply of wood resources for household and industries as mankind increasingly faces the challenge of wood shortage. Resin impregnation technology has been taken to modify the low-quality plantation wood for more than half a century which is comprehensively mentioned herein. Various chemical polymers were tried onto dozens of wood species resulting to a common fact, i.e., resin impregnated wood can be en-hanced dimensionally, mechanically, microbially, or else. Some modern advanced methods were proven feasible in analyz-ing the uptake and distribution of impregnated resins in wood. There should be a theoretic critical resin gain value to exact-ly saturate cell wall of approximately 35wt%. Excessive resin will merely act as the physical filler of the macropores while less may mean deficiency. The resin-impregnation technology shows its superiorities and prospectivity for fast-grown wood modification with comparable or even better properties to those from natural forests.
*Corresponding Author: Xinwu Xu* College of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China, 210037 Phone: 0086-25-85412389; ORCID: 0000-0002-2580-5548.
Accepted: February 25,2020 Published: March 10, 2020
Citation: Xinwu Xu, et al. “Wood modification with resin impregnation technology for value-added services“. SVOA Materials Science and Technology 2:1 (2020) 09-21.
