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Improved UV resistance in wood through the hydrothermal growth of highly ordered ZnO nanorod arrays

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In this study, wood materials with significantly improved UV resistance were successfully fabricated by growing highly ordered ZnO nanorod arrays on wood surfaces using a facile one-pot hydrothermal method. The resultant samples were characterized via scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction, and attenuated total reflectance-Fourier transformation infrared (ATR–FTIR) techniques. The SEM images clearly show the highly ordered and well-aligned ZnO nanorod arrays directly grown onto the wood surface. ATR–FTIR spectra demonstrate that stable chemical bonds between the hydroxyl groups of the ZnO nanorod array film and the wood surface were formed at the interface of the two materials. An accelerated aging test was used to measure the UV resistance of the original wood and the ZnO/wood composite. The experimental results indicate that the ZnO/wood samples exhibited a more superior UV resistance than the original wood. This significantly improved UV resistance is mainly attributed to the excellent UV absorption of the well-aligned ZnO nanorod arrays grown on the wood surface.

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This study was supported by the Breeding Plan of Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Northeast Forestry University (GRAP09), the Programme of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities of China (B08016), the State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry (Jilin University) Open Research Fund (2011-29), the Building Program for Engineering Technology Research Center in Liaoning Province Science and Technology Agency (2009402007), and the Program for Innovative Research Team in Liaoning Province.

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  1. Key Laboratory of Bio-based Material Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, 150040, People’s Republic of China

    Qingfeng Sun, Yun Lu, Yixing Liu & Jian Li

  2. Centre for Clean Environment and Energy, and Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Gold Coast, QLD, 4222, Australia

    Qingfeng Sun, Yun Lu, Haimin Zhang, Dongjiang Yang & Yun Wang

  3. Liaoning Province Key Laboratory for Synthesis and Application of Functional Compounds, College of Chemistry, Bohai University, Jinzhou, 121013, People’s Republic of China

    Jiasheng Xu

  4. State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun, 130012, People’s Republic of China

    Jiasheng Xu

  5. Key Laboratory of Tropical Biological Resources of Ministry of Education, College of Materials and Chemical Engineering, Hainan University, Haikou, 570228, People’s Republic of China

    Jinchun Tu

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Sun, Q., Lu, Y., Zhang, H. et al. Improved UV resistance in wood through the hydrothermal growth of highly ordered ZnO nanorod arrays. J Mater Sci 47, 4457–4462 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-012-6304-7

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