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With the rapid growth of China’s economy and people’s high-level pursuit of life, eco-friendly materials are gradually used in home decoration, furniture and construction industries. Compared to wood, bamboo has its own advantages such as large strength, good toughness, and great abrasion resistance when it is applied as a material to structural engineering or home decor. However, bamboo also has several limitations, for example, a small diameter, a longitudinal difference in diameter, thin and hollow walls, and a disposition to corrosion and cracking. Therefore, there is an urgent need to develop a new efficient and high-value utilization technology of bamboo. “Bamboo flattening” is a kind of high-efficiency utilization technology adopted to construct flattened bamboo boards from bamboo tubes or pre-softened arc-shaped bamboo sheets. Prior to flattening, pretreatments are requested, including softening, outer layer removal, and inner layer removal. For the bamboo tubes, penetrating grooves are requested to be created which are supposed to be widened during the saturated steam heat treatment and are conducive for the tubes to enter into the flattening machine. Moreover, tapered, rectangular or “V”-shaped protrusions nails with uniform dispersions, or diamond-shaped line grooves with a width, depth and spacing of 1.5–2.0 mm, 2.0–4.0 mm and 5.0–8.0 mm are always created to release the generated internal stress during the flattening processes. For the arc-shaped bamboo slices, a non-notched flattening method is introduced with a machine equipped with the unfolding rolling component, the flattening component, and the reverse roller component. There are no grooves, nails or guide lines on the inside surface of the obtained bamboo board. It is worth mentioning that all boards obtained should be treated by cooling, shaping and drying. Bamboo flattening technology can increase the utilization rate of bamboo resource from the original 30–55 %, reduce the amount of adhesive by 30 %, and increase the added value by more than 20 %. Herein, the achievements in bamboo flattening technology based on published papers and patents are described, along with their underlying physicochemical mechanisms.
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Lou, Z., Wang, Q., Sun, W. et al. Bamboo flattening technique: a literature and patent review. Eur. J. Wood Prod. 79, 1035–1048 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00107-021-01722-1
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