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Adhesives for Wood and Lignocellulosic Materials

R. N. Kumar (Author), A. Pizzi (Author)

9781119605430, Wiley

Hardback, published 9 July 2019

516 pages
1 x 1 x 1 cm, 0.454 kg

A unique and ground-breaking book from two leading specialists on adhesion and adhesives for wood and lignocellulosic materials

The book is a comprehensive treatment covering a wide range of subjects uniquely available in a single source for the first time. A material science approach has been adopted in dealing with wood adhesion and adhesives. The approach of the authors is to bring out hierarchical cellular and porous characteristics of wood with polymeric cell wall structure, along with the associated non-cell wall extractives, which greatly influence the interaction of wood substrate with polymeric adhesives in a very unique manner not existent in the case of other adherends. Environmental aspects, in particular formaldehyde emission from adhesive bonded wood products, has been included. A significant feature of the book is the inclusion of polymeric matrix materials for wood polymer composites.

Preface xxi

Part A: Substrates, Adhesives, and Adhesion

1 Wood as a Unique Adherend 3

2 Fundamentals of Adhesion 31

3 Urea–Formaldehyde Resins 61

4 Melamine–Formaldehyde Resin 101

5 Phenol–Formaldehyde Resins 115

6 Resorcinol–Formaldehyde Resins and Hydroxymethyl Resorcinol (HMR and n-HMR) 147

7 Polyurethane Adhesives 169

8 Wood Surface Inactivation (Thermal) 201

9 Wood Surface Inactivation Due to Extractives 211

10 Surface Modification of Wood 223

11 The Chemistry of Condensed Tannins 239

12 Thermosetting Adhesives Based on Bio-Resources for Lignocellulosic Composites 267

13 Environmental Aspects of Adhesives—Emission of Formaldehyde 293

14 Rheology and Viscoelasticity of Adhesives 317

15 Hot Melt Adhesives 347

Part B: Polymer Matrix Materials For Biofiber Composites

16 Modification of Natural Fibers and Polymeric Matrices 369

17 Polymer Matrix: Unsaturated Polyester 389

18 Polymer Matrix: Epoxy Resins 403

19 Polymer Matrix: Polyethylene 425

20 Polymer Matrix: Polypropylene 441

21 Biodegradable Polymers as Matrix for Biocomposites 467

Index 483

Subject Areas: Mechanical engineering & materials [TG]

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