Cost Action E37 Final Conference in Bordeaux 2008 Socio-economic perspectives of treated wood for the common European market
Combined effect of hydrophobation and durability improvement of wood treated with silicone emulsions Holger Militz1, Carsten Mai1, Shyamal C Ghosh1 1
Wood Biology and Wood Products, Burckhardt Institute, Georg-August University, Büsgenweg 4, 37077 Göttingen, Germany e-mail:
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Keywords: Amino-silicone, alkyl modified silicone, brown rot, macro emulsion, micro emulsion, quat-silicone, soft rot, white rot.
ABSTRACT Silicone emulsions with three different functional groups and sizes of emulsion particles, i.e., quat-silicone micro-emulsion (
