Tannins as herbal extracts are a good alternative for green chemistry. They are found
aplenty in some plant species and can be extracted by simple methods. The tannins main …

Timber cladding has been used since historical times as a locally available, affordable
weather protection option. Nowadays, interest in timber cladding is again increasing …

Tannin-boron based preservative solutions were used for the treatment of D. asper bamboo
by vacuum/pressure impregnation. Samples treated with tannin/hexamine-based solutions …

Accidents involving fire occur every day around the world, affecting thousands of people and
causing economic losses. Some accidents are caused by steel structure failures, which …

The quest for cleaner wood preservatives is one of the major foci of contemporary wood
science. Pyrolysis distillates are potential intermediates to extract large volumes of bioactive …

Sugarcane bagasse was pyrolyzed using a laboratory fixed bed reactor to produce char and
its by-product (pyrolysis liquid). The pyrolysis experiments were carried out using different …

Due to their natural origin and broad availability, industrial tannin extracts are extending
their application field from the classical, and still principal, application in tannery, to …

Boron diffusion from preservative pastes made of either ulexite or copper or fluoride
compounds was evaluated. The pastes produced were applied to sapwood blocks prepared …

Furfurylated wood has many advantages, such as decay resistance, dimensional stability,
hardness, etc. However, furfurylation increases the brittleness and decreases the flexural …

Novel valorization routes for tannins were opened by the development of a simple,
straightforward, robust, and flexible approach to the selective functionalization of condensed …