Sol-Gel Wood Preservation

2018 ◽  
pp. 2795-2842
Author(s):  
Thomas Hübert ◽  
Muhammad Shabir Mahr
Keyword(s):  
Sol Gel ◽  
Wood Preservation

Sol-gel Wood Preservation

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-48
Author(s):  
Thomas Hübert ◽  
Muhammad Shabir Mahr
Keyword(s):  
Sol Gel ◽  
Wood Preservation

Nanocomposites Based on Acrylic Copolymer, Iron Lignosulfonate and ZnO Nanoparticles Used as Wood Preservatives

2009 ◽  
Vol 151 ◽  
pp. 139-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucia Dumitrescu ◽  
Dana Perniu ◽  
Ileana Manciulea
Keyword(s):  
Zno Nanoparticles ◽  
Sol Gel ◽  
Ethyl Acrylate ◽  
Wood Preservation ◽  
Acrylic Copolymer ◽  
Water Emulsion ◽  
Afm Analysis ◽  
Acrylic Copolymers ◽  
Inorganic Nanomaterials

The paper presents research concerning the synthesis and characterization of some new nanocomposite used as wood coating nanomaterials, consisting of a hybrid of organic (functionalized acrylic copolymers with iron lignosulfonate) and inorganic nanomaterials (ZnO nanoparticles obtained by sol-gel process). The presence of acrylic copolymers in water emulsion (based on monomers ethyl acrylate, butyl acrylate, acrylonitrile and the lignin derivative iron lignosulfonate) and ZnO nanoparticles enables the formation of a crosslinked nanometric network of inorganic and organic domains, emphasized by AFM analysis. The interphase characterization of the nanostructured materials synthesized was performed using FT-IR analysis. Considering the biocide activity for the acrylic copolymers, the lignin derivative iron lignosulfonate and ZnO nanoparticles, the obtained nanocomposites were biologically investigated and proposed as wood preservation agents.

Sol-gel Wood Preservation

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-52
Author(s):  
Thomas Hübert ◽  
Muhammad Shabir Mahr
Keyword(s):  
Sol Gel ◽  
Wood Preservation

Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Trimethylborate (TMB) Modified Poplar Wood by Sol-Gel Process

2013 ◽  
Vol 668 ◽  
pp. 920-923
Author(s):  
Chang Wang ◽  
Wen Bo Zhang ◽  
Yun Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Storage Modulus ◽  
Sol Gel ◽  
Dynamic Mechanical Properties ◽  
Wood Preservation ◽  
Hydroxyl Groups ◽  
Temperature Range ◽  
Chemically Modified ◽  
Half Height ◽  
Sol Gel Process ◽  
Preservation Technique

To develop novel wood preservation technique trimethylborate(TMB) and boric dioxide were used by sol-gel process to modify poplar (Populus euramevicana cv.‘I-214'.) wood. The temperature variations of the storage modulus and the loss tangent along the grain for two kinds of chemically modified poplar woods were measured at 2Hz over a temperature range of -50 to 200°C. The storage modulus of modified woods were observed slight increases over the temperature range tested by introduction of bulky side chains and the tanδ remarkably reduced due to boric acid bridges between the hydroxyl groups which restricted the micro-Brownian motion of the main chains. In TMB treatment, peak width at half height of tanδ broadened significantly, indicating remarked cross-linking effect in polycondensation with wood cellulose.

TEM visualization of surface replicated acid and base catalyzed sol-gel glasses

1986 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 448-449
Author(s):  
George C. Ruben ◽  
Merrill W. Shafer
Keyword(s):  
Elevated Temperatures ◽  
Sol Gel ◽  
Basic Medium ◽  
Glass Transition Point ◽  
Structural Space ◽  
Acid And Base ◽  
Organometallic Precursors ◽  
New Processing ◽  
Gel Glasses ◽  
Physical Phenomena

Traditionally ceramics have been shaped from powders and densified at temperatures close to their liquid point. New processing methods using various types of sols, gels, and organometallic precursors at low temperature which enable densificatlon at elevated temperatures well below their liquidus, hold the promise of producing ceramics and glasses of controlled and reproducible properties that are highly reliable for electronic, structural, space or medical applications. Ultrastructure processing of silicon alkoxides in acid medium and mixtures of Ludox HS-40 (120Å spheres from DuPont) and Kasil (38% K2O &62% SiO2) in basic medium have been aimed at producing materials with a range of well defined pore sizes (∼20-400Å) to study physical phenomena and materials behavior in well characterized confined geometries. We have studied Pt/C surface replicas of some of these porous sol-gels prepared at temperatures below their glass transition point.

Electron microscopy studies of PZT ferroelectric film capacitor structures

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 1364-1365
Author(s):  
V. Kaushik ◽  
P. Maniar ◽  
J. Olowolafe ◽  
R. Jones ◽  
A. Campbell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electric Fields ◽  
Sol Gel ◽  
Ferroelectric Material ◽  
Dielectric Constants ◽  
Dielectric Films ◽  
Lead Zirconium Titanate ◽  
Si Substrate ◽  
Film Capacitor ◽  
Pzt Films ◽  
High Dielectric

Lead zirconium titanate films (Pb (Zr,Ti) O3 or PZT) are being considered for potential application as dielectric films in memory technology due to their high dielectric constants. PZT is a ferroelectric material which shows spontaneous polarizability, reversible under applied electric fields. We report herein some results of TEM studies on thin film capacitor structures containing PZT films with platinum-titanium electrodes.The wafers had a stacked structure consisting of PZT/Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si substrate as shown in Figure 1. Platinum acts as electrode material and titanium is used to overcome the problem of platinum adhesion to the oxide layer. The PZT (0/20/80) films were deposited using a sol-gel method and the structure was annealed at 650°C and 800°C for 30 min in an oxygen ambient. XTEM imaging was done at 200KV with the electron beam parallel to <110> zone axis of silicon.Figure 2 shows the PZT and Pt layers only, since the structure had a tendency to peel off at the Ti-Pt interface during TEM sample preparation.

The crystallization of thin-film ceramics

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 338-339
Author(s):  
J.M. Schwartz ◽  
L.F. Francis ◽  
L.D. Schmidt ◽  
P.S. Schabes-Retchkiman
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
Grain Size ◽  
Sol Gel ◽  
Processing Route ◽  
Small Areas ◽  
Ceramic Thin Films ◽  
Complex Shapes ◽  
Sol Gel Process ◽  
Ceramic Precursors ◽  
Crystalline Ceramic

Ceramic thin films and coatings are of interest for electrical, optical, magnetic and thermal barrier applications. Critical for improved properties in thin films is the development of specific microstructures during processing. To this end, the sol-gel method is advantageous as a versatile processing route. The sol-gel process involves depositing a solution containing metalorganic or colloidal ceramic precursors onto a substrate and heating the deposited layer to form a crystalline or non-crystalline ceramic coating. This route has several advantages, including the ability to create tailored microstructures and properties, to coat large or small areas, simple or complex shapes, and to more easily prepare multicomponent ceramics. Sol-gel derived coatings are amorphous in the as-deposited state and develop their crystalline structure and microstructure during heat-treatment. We are particularly interested in studying the amorphous to crystalline transformation, because many key features of the microstructure such as grain size and grain size distribution may be linked to this transformation.

The use of high-resolution FESEM to study solid-state phase transformations and reactions

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 1028-1029
Author(s):  
P. G. Kotula ◽  
D. D. Erickson ◽  
C. B. Carter
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Phase Transformations ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Sol Gel ◽  
Quantitative Information ◽  
Solid State Reactions ◽  
Critical Dimensions ◽  
Backscattered Electrons ◽  
Backscattered Electron

High-resolution field-emission-gun scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) has recently emerged as an extremely powerful method for characterizing the micro- or nanostructure of materials. The development of high efficiency backscattered-electron detectors has increased the resolution attainable with backscattered-electrons to almost that attainable with secondary-electrons. This increased resolution allows backscattered-electron imaging to be utilized to study materials once possible only by TEM. In addition to providing quantitative information, such as critical dimensions, SEM is more statistically representative. That is, the amount of material that can be sampled with SEM for a given measurement is many orders of magnitude greater than that with TEM.In the present work, a Hitachi S-900 FESEM (operating at 5kV) equipped with a high-resolution backscattered electron detector, has been used to study the α-Fe2O3 enhanced or seeded solid-state phase transformations of sol-gel alumina and solid-state reactions in the NiO/α-Al2O3 system. In both cases, a thin-film cross-section approach has been developed to facilitate the investigation. Specifically, the FESEM allows transformed- or reaction-layer thicknesses along interfaces that are millimeters in length to be measured with a resolution of better than 10nm.

Phase separation in sol gel-derived ceramic films of silica-zirconia, alumina-zirconia, and titania-zirconia system

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 646-647
Author(s):  
J. Tong ◽  
L. Eyring
Keyword(s):  
Fracture Toughness ◽  
Phase Separation ◽  
Sol Gel ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
High Strength ◽  
Chemical Durability ◽  
Separation Method ◽  
Toughening Mechanism ◽  
Ceramic Films ◽  
Zirconia Toughened Alumina

There is increasing interest in composites containing zirconia because of their high strength, fracture toughness, and its great influence on the chemical durability in glass. For the zirconia-silica system, monolithic glasses, fibers and coatings have been obtained. There is currently a great interest in designing zirconia-toughened alumina including exploration of the processing methods and the toughening mechanism.The possibility of forming nanocrystal composites by a phase separation method has been investigated in three systems: zirconia-alumina, zirconia-silica and zirconia-titania using HREM. The morphological observations initially suggest that the formation of nanocrystal composites by a phase separation method is possible in the zirconia-alumina and zirconia-silica systems, but impossible in the zirconia-titania system. The separation-produced grain size in silica-zirconia system is around 5 nm and is more uniform than that in the alumina-zirconia system in which the sizes of the small polyhedron grains are around 10 nm. In the titania-zirconia system, there is no obvious separation as was observed in die alumina-zirconia and silica-zirconia system.

Microstructural characterization of sol-gel coating on PET films

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 886-887
Author(s):  
R. T. Chen ◽  
R.A. Norwood
Keyword(s):  
Ion Beam ◽  
Sol Gel ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Hard Coatings ◽  
Nanometer Scale ◽  
Ion Beam Sputtering ◽  
Process Technology ◽  
Refractive Index Measurement ◽  
Organically Modified ◽  
Pet Films

Sol-gel processing has been used to control the structure of a material on a nanometer scale in preparing advanced ceramics and glasses. Film coating using the sol-gel process was also found to be a viable process technology in applications such as optical, porous, antireflection and hard coatings. In this study, organically modified silicate (Ormosil) coatings are applied to PET films for various industrial applications. Sol-gel materials are known to exhibit nanometer scale structures which havepreviously been characterized by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), neutron scattering and light scattering. Imaging of the ultrafine sol-gel structures has also been performed using an ultrahigh resolution replica/TEM technique. The objective of this study was to evaluate the ultrafine structures inthe sol gel coatings using a direct imaging technique: atomic force microscopy (AFM). In addition, correlation of microstructures with processing parameters, coating density and other physical properties will be discussed.The materials evaluated are organically modified silicate coatings on PET film substrates. Refractive index measurement by the prism coupling method was used to assess density of the sol-gel coating.AFM imaging was performed on a Nanoscope III AFM (by Digital Instruments) using constant force mode. Solgel coating samples coated with a thin layer of Ft (by ion beam sputtering) were also examined by STM in order to confirm the structures observed in the contact type AFM. In addition, to compare the previous results, sol-gel powder samples were also prepared by ultrasonication followed by Pt/Au shadowing and examined using a JEOL 100CX TEM.

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