The importance of wood bonding increased in the last decades due to the
increased usage of wood composites whose performance depends to a large extent on
the adhesive penetration and subsequent bonding of the adherends ...
Natural fibers are gaining popularity as reinforcement materials for thermoset resins over the last two decades. Natural fibers are inexpensive, abundant, renewable and environmentally friendly. Kenaf fibers are one of t ...
Presently, the production of wood composites relies on the formaldehyde-based wood adhesives such as phenol-formaldehyde (PF) and urea-formaldehyde (UF). However, their dependence on exhaustible fossil fuels and the emis ...
A new carbohydrate-phenol based resorcinol resin
(CPR resin) was synthesized by end capping a known
carbohydrate-phenol based resole with resorcinol under
basic reaction conditions. Synthetic parameters, such as
dura ...
Present methods of determining proper glueline cure are inadequate
in either production or laboratory situations because they
are time consuming and "after the fact". Monitoring the glueline
while the wood composite i ...
Equal molar amounts of (+)-catechin and N-Hydroxymethylacetamide
were reacted under acidic conditions. Thin-layer
chromatography (TLC) was used to monitor the reaction.
The reaction products were isolated by column ch ...
It was the goal of this research to determine if sago
starch could be used to replace wheat flour as an adhesive
extender of Urea-formaldehyde plywood adhesives through
either chemical modification of the starch or mo ...