• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.36-41
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• 2000

This study was carried out to introduce functional groups onto wood by reacting with 2-methacryloyloxyethyl isocyanate(MOI). The effects of the catalyst and the reaction conditions(temperature and time) on the treatment were investigated. The evidence of bonding between wood and MOI were examined by infrared(IR) spectroscopy. The change in surface characteristics of MOI treated wood was examined by water contact angle measurement and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS). Wood reacted quickly with MOI in the presence of di-n-butiltin dilaurate catalyst. Especially, the increase in weight percent gain(WPG) with increasing in reaction time was remarkable at the reaction temperature of over $50^{\circ}C$. The IR spectrum of wood reacted with MOI showed a strong urethane absorption(1715 $cm^{-1}$) but no isocyanate(2235 $cm^{-1}$) absorption. It also showed a sharp olefinic C=C double bond absorption at 1635 $cm^{-1}$. This means that an introduced methacrylate group becomes the starting point of further graft copolymerization with another vinyl monomers. The wood modified with MOI showed a gradual increase in contact angle with increasing in WPG, which means that the hydrophilic wood surface become quite hydrophobic. Also, it was cleared that most parts of the wood surface were modified with MOI by XPS analysis.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.566-577
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• 2009

The modification of wood color occurs rapidly during the service period at indoor. It is crucial to investigate the characteristics of color change, chemical and microscopical modification of wood at indoor. Wood products made of Japanese cedar at different years were used for this work. The tests were performed in order to evaluate the degree of color change of wood surface, breakpoint of brightness from surface to inside of wood, chemical analysis with FT-IR, and microscopical characteristics using the LM and TEM. Surface color of cedar wood stored indoor were rapidly changed at early stage, particularly ${\Delta}a$ (yellow), and ${\Delta}b$ (red) values were steeply decreased for one year old indoor wood, ${\Delta}L$ (white) value was dropped until 5 years old indoor wood compared with control sample. Decrease of peaks related to polysaccharide and lignin was noticed, especially, lignin was severely degraded. Although degradation of cell wall limited only to surface layers of indoor wood, degradation pattern of indoor wood showed similar degradation pattern to natural weathering of wood during outdoor weathering or wood behavior under artificial UV irradiation.