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The effects of molecular weight of PF resin on the deformation behaviour of NaClO2 treated resin-impregnated wood during compression were investigated. Blocks of Japanese cedar were subjected to 2% NaClO2 aqueous solution. This was repeated up to four times resulting in a weight loss of 28%. Treated and untreated samples were impregnated with PF resin having different molecular weight. With increasing molecular weight, weight gain and volume gain decreased for untreated PF resin-impregnated wood, while NaClO2 treated wood impregnated with high molecular weight PF resin showed almost double the weight gain compared to untreated condition. NaClO2 treatment has shown considerable potential for high compression of PF resin-impregnated wood at lower pressing pressure regardless of the molecular weight of the resin. Low to high molecular weight resin was shown to penetrate into NaClO2 treated wood as estimated by weight gain contributing to the plasticization of cell wall considerably and thus resulting in cell wall collapse at low pressing pressure. The density of NaClO2 treated wood impregnated with high molecular weight resin attained a value of over 0.8 g/cm3 which is close to the density of untreated wood impregnated with low molecular weight resin. Such compressed wood exhibited high dimensional stability after boiling for 3 h. Thus, the penetration of resin into wood contributes to highly compressed dimensional stable resin-impregnated wood at low pressing pressure.
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The authors would like to thank Gui-E-Chemical Industry Ltd. for supplying different types of phenol formaldehyde (PF) resins. M. I. Shams acknowledges the financial support of the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
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Shams, M.I., Yano, H. Compressive deformation of phenol formaldehyde (PF) resin-impregnated wood related to the molecular weight of resin. Wood Sci Technol 45, 73–81 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00226-010-0310-1
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