From the still life with a bowl of fruit to scenes of wildlife in the woods, from Michelangelo’s David to Damien Hirst’s Verity, biology often provides the shapes, forms, colours and concepts that most inspire visual artists to create their own representation of life. Apart from the unique case of Leonardo da Vinci, the scientific and the artistic eye cast on living things have rarely resided i...

The structural properties and whiteness of the substrate surface markedly effect printing quality are closely related to primer coating processes. Herein, four different roller schemes were applied on MDF surfaces change their color, whiteness, gloss, roughness characterized for UV inkjet printing. Data analysis was conducted explore effects these variables color reproduction, relative contrast...

the influence of initial moisture content on wood decay at different levels of atmospheric oxygen concentration was studied. three fungi, coriolus versicolor (c. versicolor) a white rot, coniophora puteana (c. puteana) a brown rot, and chaetomium globosum (c. globosum) a soft rot, were chosen. the mycelia of the fungi were inoculated in to mini blocks of fagus sylvatica (beech) and pinus sy...

In this study, natural linseed oil, hard wax and wax, commonly used as finishes for wooden furniture parquet, were surface on Turkey oak wood (Quercus cerris L.), thermally modified at temperatures of 175 °C 195 4 h. Several resistance properties investigated. The mechanical all very much allied to interactions between the finish type substrate. adhesion strength impact decreased if higher temp...