Adhesives for Wood and Lignocellulosic Materials

A unique and ground-breaking book from two leading specialists on adhesion and adhesives for wood and lignocellulosic materials The book is a comprehensive treatment covering a wide range of subjects uniquely available in a single source for the first time. A material science approach has been adopted in dealing with wood adhesion and adhesives. The approach of the authors is to bring out hierarchical cellular and porous characteristics of wood with polymeric cell wall structure, along with the associated non-cell wall extractives, which greatly influence the interaction of wood substrate with polymeric adhesives in a very unique manner not existent in the case of other adherends. Environmental aspects, in particular formaldehyde emission from adhesive bonded wood products, has been included. A significant feature of the book is the inclusion of polymeric matrix materials for wood polymer composites. Audience Adhesion chemists, polymer chemists, wood technologists, timber and process engineers, in industry, the solid wood processing industry, wood joinery for furniture industry, plywood industry, particleboard industry, fiberboard (both by wet and dry process), cross-laminated lumber, wood polymer composites industry, and wood construction industry. The book can be also used for undergraduate and graduate level courses in Wood Science and Technology.