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Original Article

Surface properties of tannin treated wood during natural and artificial weathering

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Pages 150-157 | Received 20 Dec 2012, Accepted 31 May 2013, Published online: 18 Nov 2013
 

Abstract

Tannins are the natural substances that plants use to protect wood. Novel tannin based formulations were tested to evaluate their efficacy in preventing weathering degradation of the surfaces. Scots pine and European beech specimens were treated with flavonoid based wood preservatives and exposed to artificial and natural weathering. The surface properties of the samples before and after weathering were evaluated using contact angle and colour measurements. Tannin treated samples showed a moderate resistance against discoloration and greater wettability than untreated samples. ATR-FT-MIR and FT-NIR spectroscopies combined with principal component analysis (PCA) revealed that weathering mainly degrades the aromatic component of wood. Because the protective tannin network is nothing more than an aromatic polymer, it suffers a similar degradation of lignin. Although the higher amount of aromatics leads to higher degradations, it is still possible to observe via vibrational spectroscopies that the flavonoid enriched surfaces contain more aromatics also after weathering.

The authors acknowledge the Austrian Science Fund: project no. 1232- B16 and the COST action FP1006.

Notes

This paper is part of a special issue on the Sixth European Conference on Wood Modification

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