Adhesives for Wood and Lignocellulosic Materials
1. Edition July 2019
516 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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.
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
A. Pizzi is Professor Emeritus of Industrial Chemistry at the School of Timber Engineering the University of Lorraine, France for the last 25 years and has previously held the ad hominem Chair of Polymer Chemistry at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Prof. Pizzi who has been Director of three National Institutes in South Africa and has held long-term positions in the timber and adhesives industry. He holds a doctorate in Physical Chemistry of Organic Polymers (University of Rome, Italy), a PhD in Organic Chemistry (University of the Orange Free State, South Africa) and a D.Sc. in Wood Science (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa). He is the holder of a number of prestigious international science prizes such as, among others, the Schweighofer Innovation Prize and the Descartes Science finalist Prize (twice), the highest given by the European Commission. He has more than 700 publications in international science journals of standing and numerous books and patents. He is a leading specialist in wood adhesives and wood panels.
