Effect of treatments with 1,3-dimethylol-4,5-dihydroxy-ethyleneurea (DMDHEU) on the tensile properties of wood

Holzforschung

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-50

  Xie, Yanjun ^a   Krause, Andreas ^a   Militz, Holger ^a   Turkulin, Hrvoje ^b   Richter, Klaus ^c   Mai, Carsten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^c SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chemical modification; DMDHEU; Scanning electron microscopy; Tensile strength; Wood degradation

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE PROPERTIES; TENSILE STRENGTH;

PINEWOOD VENEERS; WOOD DEGRADATION;

WOOD;

ALCOHOLS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TENSILE PROPERTIES; TENSILE STRENGTH; WOOD;

EID: 33846184535     PISSN: 00183830     EISSN: 1437434X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/HF.2007.008     Document Type: Article

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