Recent Progress in Advanced Wood and Wood-Based Materials
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced Composites".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2024) | Viewed by 958
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wood adhesives; wood-based panels (process modeling, formaldehyde and VOCs emissions); high-pressure laminates; wood machining/finishing; wood-plastic composites and circular economy
Interests: wood products; wood technology; adhesives for wood composites; sustainable wood composites; recycling
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Dear Colleagues,
Wood-based composites are composite materials that combine wood or other lignocellulosic materials, in various shapes and sizes, with a binder, generally a thermosetting resin, and which have a wide range of physical properties and mechanics. They emerged as an alternative to solid wood, have a lower cost, greater versatility in volume and shape, enhanced dimensional stability, and more uniform mechanical behavior. They have environmental advantages, as they use raw materials from renewable and recyclable sources, such as wood, and absorb CO2 from the atmosphere, helping to mitigate climate change. In the last decades, environmental regulations, the increase in sustainability of these products, the constraints in the availability of wood raw materials, the introduction of new functionalities and better mechanical performance for structural applications in construction or aesthetic performance for use in furniture, were driving forces for several emerging solutions and the arising of new challenges.
This Special Issue will present the most recent advances on wood-based materials, focusing: decrease of formaldehyde and VOCs emissions, the development of bio-adhesives while maintaining the physico-mechanical properties, the use of alternative lignocellulosic raw-materials from agro-industry, the incorporation of recycled wood or waste from other industries as textile fibers, using of circular economy approaches, the incorporation of nano-additives for new functionalities, dyeing in the bulk for new aesthetics, improved reaction to fire, the possibility of shaping and molding with the combination of thermoplastics, better machinability, new solutions for lightweight composites, composite insulation, and non-destructive testing (e.g., NIR).
Dr. Luísa Carvalho
Prof. Dr. Stergios Adamopoulos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- wood-based composites
- bio-adhesives
- green lignocellulosic composites
- natural fiber composites
- formaldehyde and VOC emissions
- alternative furnishing materials
- nano-additives
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