Structure of oak wood from the Swedish warship Vasa revealed by X-ray scattering and microtomography

Holzforschung

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 355-363

  Svedström, Kirsi ^a   Bjurhager, Ingela ^b   Kallonen, Aki ^a   Peura, Marko ^a   Serimaa, Ritva ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

cellulose crystallite; oak; SAXS; Vasa; WAXS; X ray microtomography

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE CRYSTALLITES; OAK; SAXS; VASA; WAXS; X RAY MICROTOMOGRAPHY;

CELLULOSE; CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYSTALLITES; DEGRADATION; PHOTODEGRADATION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; WARSHIPS; X RAY SCATTERING;

X RAYS;

CELLULOSE; CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; CRYSTALLITES; DEGRADATION; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL; QUERCUS; SCATTERING; SWEDEN; X RAYS;

EID: 84860634384     PISSN: 00183830     EISSN: 1437434X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/hf.2011.157     Document Type: Article

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