A major driving force in paper technology development is the reduction in cost of paper production. A primary material cost in the paper production process is wood fiber, the cost of which is increasing rapidly. Reducing fiber usage is difficult, as paper properties are tightly coupled to the amount of fiber. Advances in coating formulation design have begun to show how coatings may be designed...

The ageing of materials is an irreversible, in-time occurring complex phenomenon, which affects both wood surfaces and the coating materials. This paper focuses on light-induced natural wood-coated in indoor conditions. Two species: European maple (Acer pseudoplatanus) walnut (Juglans regia) two types waxes: bees wax Chinese were employed experiments presented this paper. Uncoated coated sample...

Self-assembling films typically used for colloidal lithography have been applied to pine wood substrates change the surface wettability. Therefore, monodisperse polystyrene (PS) spheres deposited onto a rough substrate via dip coating. The resulting PS sphere film resembled polycrystalline face centered cubic (FCC)-like structure with typical domain sizes of 5–15 single spheres. This self-assem...

Technical development and commercial implementation of the supercritical fluid spray process have produced the surprising result that coating appearance and performance can actually be improved by removing 60 to 80 percent of the organic solvent from solvent-borne coating formulations. Unlike normal diluent solvents and water, the decompressive release of supercritical carbon dioxide during spr...

The effect of dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma treatment was studied on the surface characteristics and coating performance transparent epoxy resin particleboard (PB) medium-density fiberboard (MDF). performed at three energies (10, 15, 20 kW) distances from nozzle 20, 30 mm). Analyzing samples by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy X-ray photoelectron (XPS) indicated change...