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Effects of decreasing carbohydrate content on properties of wood strands

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Hot-water pretreatment was performed on wood strands to investigate effects of the extraction of hemicellulose under different temperature (140, 155, and 170 °C) and time durations (30 and 60 min) conditions. Hydrolysate was analyzed by means of high-performance liquid chromatography. Chemical changes in the surface of wood strands were studied by infrared spectroscopy. The effects of hemicellulose extraction on the wettability of wood strands were studied by measuring the contact angle and surface free energy. The mechanical properties of wood cell walls before and after treatment were studied by nanoindentation. Among the extracted monosaccharides, mannose was found in the highest concentration. The mechanical properties of cell walls showed little decrease after extraction. The chemical changes in the surface of the wood strands reduced wettability of wood surface by water and produced hydrophobic characteristics after extraction.

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The authors extend thanks for the USDA Wood Utilization Research Program, the Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station (Project MS#96) and the Natural Science Foundation of China #30928022 for financial support. The authors also thank Dr. Steve Kelley, and Mr. Wes Johnson of North Carolina State University; Dr. Nicole Labbé and Mr. Clinton Sattler at the Center for Renewable Carbon, University of Tennessee, for their assistance with this research. Instrumentation for the nanoindentation work was provided through the SHaRE Program at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which was sponsored by the Division of Materials Science and Engineering, U.S. Department of Energy, under Contract DE-AC05-000R22725 with UT-Battelle, LLC.

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  1. Center for Renewable Carbon, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA

    Omid Hosseinaei, Siqun Wang, Timothy G. Rials, Cheng Xing & Yang Zhang

  2. TTS Inc., Edmonton, AB, T6E 5Z5, Canada

    Cheng Xing

  3. College of Wood Science and Technology, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China

    Yang Zhang

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Hosseinaei, O., Wang, S., Rials, T.G. et al. Effects of decreasing carbohydrate content on properties of wood strands. Cellulose 18, 841–850 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-011-9519-x

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