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WOOD MATERIAL SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
Volume 4, Issue 1-2, Pages 14-22Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/17480270903261339
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Acetylation; acetyl content; brown-rot fungus; equilibrium moisture content; heat treatment; mechanism; sugar analysis; weight loss; wood
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Reductions in hygroscopicity, increased dimensional stability and decay resistance of heat-treated wood depend on decomposition of a large portion of the hemicelluloses in the wood cell wall. In theory, these hemicelluloses are converted to small organic molecules, water and volatile furan-type intermediates that can polymerize in the cell wall. Reductions in hygroscopicity and improved dimensional stability of acetylated wood depend on esterification of the accessible hemicelluloses in the cell wall reducing hydrogen bonding with water and bulking the cell wall back to its green volume. Stability is not 100% since the water molecule is smaller than the acetyl group so water can access hydroxyl sites even when the wood is fully acetylated. The cell-wall moisture content is too low in acetylated wood to support fungal attack so the initial enzymic attack starting the colonization does not take place. Strength properties are reduced in heat-treated wood owing to the degradation of the cell-wall matrix resulting from the hemicellulose loss. Strength properties are not significantly changed in acetylated wood and acetylation results in greatly improved wet strength and wet stiffness properties.
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