Wood is a renewable material that has been widely utilized as indoor and outdoor construction decoration in our daily life. Although wood many advantages (i.e., light weight, high strength, low price easy machinability), it some drawbacks influence dimensional stability, cracking decay resistance real practical applications. To mitigate these issues, superhydrophobic surfaces have introduced to...

Silicate coatings are environmentally friendly inorganic-based products that have long been used for mineral substrates and protection of steel against corrosion. The development acceptance these in the wood sector require some adjustments formulations or special preparation surface to be coated obtain durable finishes. In this work, adhesion various silicate-based a beech substrate (Fagus sylv...