Wood is a renewable resource with excellent qualities and the potential to become a key
element of a future bioeconomy. The increasing environmental awareness and drive to …

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 …

Wood-water interactions are central to the utilization of wood in our society since water
affects many important characteristics of wood. This topic has been investigated for more …

Wood in service is sequestering carbon, but it is principally prone to deterioration where
different fungi metabolize wood, and carbon dioxide is released back to the atmosphere. A …

Moisture plays a central role in the performance of wood products because it affects
important material properties such as the resistance to decomposition, the mechanical …

As a green material, wood is widely used in building decoration, railway construction, and
other fields. However, the wood itself has inherent defects of being easy to absorb water and …

In an attempt to evaluate the effects of thermal treatment on wood cell walls (CWs), Masson
pine (Pinus massoniana Lamb.) wood was thermally modified (TM) at 150, 170 and 190° C …

Wood is a hygroscopic material that absorbs and desorbs water to equilibrate to the ambient
climate. Within material science, the moisture range from 0 to about 95–98% relative …

Wood is a porous, hygroscopic material that can take up water both within cell walls (cell-
wall water) and in the macrovoid structure (capillary water). Therefore, moisture transport in …

To investigate the influence of delignification on wood furfurylation, poplar wood (Populus
euramericana Cv.) was partly delignified prior to the impregnation of furfuryl alcohol (FA) at …