• Don't miss the final Stem Cell Talk of 2023 featuring Principal Investigator Niels-Bjärne Woods. (lu.se)
  • "Self‐Densification of Highly Mesoporous Wood Structure into a Strong and Transparent Film," Advanced Materials , 2020. (kth.se)
  • "Transparent Wood Biocomposites by Fast UV-Curing for Reduced Light-Scattering through Wood/Thiol-ene Interface Design," ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces , vol. 12, no. 41, pp. 46914-46922, 2020. (kth.se)
  • "Refractive index of delignified wood for transparent biocomposites," RSC Advances , vol. 10, pp. 40719-40724, 2020. (kth.se)
  • Learning how to refinish wood furniture like chairs, cabinets and tables is an easy way to transform old furniture to match your new style. (forbes.com)
  • There are different signs it's time to refinish wood furniture you should look for when considering a restoration project. (forbes.com)
  • Follow these easy steps to learn how to refinish wood furniture at home. (forbes.com)
  • With an estimated 12.5 million homes in the United States using wood or pellets for space heating, this challenge stands to create a significant impact on the environmental footprint of domestic heating. (energy.gov)
  • Starting October 1, 2019 Korean importers that do not satisfy requirements regarding timber trading (logs, sawn timber, anti-decay wood, fire retardant treated wood, laminated wood, plywood, and wood pellets) could face penalties for non-compliance. (constantcontact.com)
  • Modern wood heat means ultra-modern automated central heating boilers and furnaces using wood chips and wood pellets as fuel. (maine.gov)
  • In residences the fuel is usually wood pellets and not wood chips and a few others may have new cordwood boilers. (maine.gov)
  • A quick calculation is to take the number of gallons of heating oil or propane you use in a year and the cost of that compared to what it would cost with wood chips or wood pellets. (maine.gov)
  • Plywood is made from wood veneer piled and stacked up in layers. (bartleby.com)
  • A wood veneer is the thin layer of wood or bark, whose thickness is lower than 3 mm. (bartleby.com)
  • Complex industrial methods are used to produce sheets of wood veneer, which are further processed by hand. (vitra.com)
  • Broken Age will co-star Elijah Wood as Shay, the male lead of the game's futuristic portion. (eurogamer.net)
  • Moreover, with the growth of wood polymer composites (WPC), engineers and builders have made a major shift from the use of natural wood to laboratory-engineered wood. (bartleby.com)
  • "Reversible dual-stimuli responsive chromic transparent wood bio-composites for smart window applications," ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces , vol. 13, pp. 3270-3277, 2021. (kth.se)
  • Woods with straight grains are the easiest to work, while woods with interlocked grains are the most difficult. (wikipedia.org)
  • These woods are characterized by straight grains and are light yellowish in appearance. (bartleby.com)
  • WPC is primarily made of used wood products such as sawdust, wood left-outs after processing and mixed with many binding materials and polymers to develop an eco-friendly building material. (bartleby.com)
  • This does two things: First, it helps remove even more of that offending sawdust, and second, the moisture in the rag opens the grain of the wood thus allowing it to accept a greater amount of polyurethane. (ehow.com)
  • When using an air compressor to blow away sawdust, make sure the debris doesn't find its way into the open can, onto your paintbrush or back to the wood. (ehow.com)
  • Wood waste from forestry activities and sawdust count as natural wood, as well as leftover wood from sawmills. (admin.ch)
  • BC Wood just received confirmation of funding for our 2017-2018 market development activities. (constantcontact.com)
  • Recognizing the on-going need to explore new and emerging markets, BC Wood has also scheduled missions and participation in trade shows in Mexico in August, 2017 and October, 2017. (constantcontact.com)
  • The result was that BC Wood has another strong program of approved trade event activities for 2017-2018. (constantcontact.com)
  • "Lasing from Organic Dye Molecules Embedded in Transparent Wood," Advanced Optical Materials , vol. 5, no. 10, 2017. (kth.se)
  • The Wood Heater Design Challenge nicknamed the Wood Stove Decathlon, started in 2013 with a competition on the National Mall in Washington D.C. The challenge exists to engage and expand the wood heater community, foster relationships between academia, industry and other stakeholders while developing the most innovative wood heaters that are cleaner and more efficient. (energy.gov)
  • The Fifth Annual Wood Heat Design series of events consisted of virtual workshops of invited experts and stakeholders in January, March and April 2022, a Technology Slam held in the fall of 2022, followed by the Stove Competition. (energy.gov)
  • The Wood Heater Technology SLAM provided an opportunity for teams to pitch innovative wood stove ideas to retailers, the public, and panels of expert judges. (energy.gov)
  • Wood Stove 86 in. (homedepot.com)
  • Alloy Steel Camping Tent Stove, Portable Wood Burning Stove 1400 cu. in. (homedepot.com)
  • The best balsa wood tower designs require exact measurements. (ehow.com)
  • According to the East Coast Model Center, balsa wood is among the lightest woods on the planet. (ehow.com)
  • SpecializedBalsa.com states that industrial uses for balsa wood include boat hulls, airplanes and land transportation. (ehow.com)
  • The best balsa wood tower designs incorporate some basic engineering principles. (ehow.com)
  • The best balsa wood tower designs use basic structural shapes, such as triangles, whose firmness allows them to support weight in a secure fashion. (ehow.com)
  • A good balsa wood tower design incorporates several types of joints to help increase its tensile strength. (ehow.com)
  • Lap joints, on the other hand, use an overlapping method to join two pieces of balsa wood or other material and offer greater stability. (ehow.com)
  • Symmetry is essential to an excellent balsa wood tower design. (ehow.com)
  • The best balsa wood tower designs require the sparing use of glue and other liquid adhesives. (ehow.com)
  • Pre-tests are important in determining good balsa wood tower designs. (ehow.com)
  • Despite this, the large number of informal enterprises in the region presents an opportunity to reshape the wood industry and utilize the local forestry resources to construct timber buildings. (archdaily.com)
  • Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Department of Chemistry, Poznan University of Life Sciences, 60-628 Poznan, Poland. (bvsalud.org)
  • Wood grain is important in woodworking and it impacts aesthetics. (wikipedia.org)
  • An important physical aspect of wood grain in woodworking is the grain direction or slope (e.g., against the grain ). (wikipedia.org)
  • The use of horizontal belt sanders in woodworking creates significant amounts of wood dust. (cdc.gov)
  • Surveys by NIOSH researchers indicated that wood dust from the horizontal belt sanders used in woodworking was not effectively controlled. (cdc.gov)
  • Natural wood and scrap wood on the other hand can also be used in wood-burning stoves and waste wood combustion systems. (admin.ch)
  • Polyurethane brings out the beauty of raw wood and protects it from the elements. (ehow.com)
  • There are many ways to preserve and protect wood, but a clear coat of polyurethane will accomplish the task without hiding the natural elegance and intricacy of the wood itself. (ehow.com)
  • Don't create any bubbles in the process since they have a tendency to become dry bumps once the polyurethane has dried on your wood. (ehow.com)
  • Water-based polyurethane shares many properties with its chief ingredient so expect it to drip as you move your brush from the can to the wood. (ehow.com)
  • The evening began with a tactile display of a unique wood stools designed by students from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design. (constantcontact.com)
  • Wood may also refer to other plant materials with comparable properties, and to material engineered from wood, woodchips, or fiber. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wood has been used for thousands of years for fuel, as a construction material, for making tools and weapons, furniture and paper. (wikipedia.org)
  • People have used wood for thousands of years for many purposes, including as a fuel or as a construction material for making houses, tools, weapons, furniture, packaging, artworks, and paper. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wood is an organic material that forms the major part of every plant and tree. (bartleby.com)
  • Wood can be called a natural composite material that has fibrous material in the form of cellulose. (bartleby.com)
  • Recently wood has been the choice of many civil engineers as an aesthetic building material, as it plays a major role in many structural engineering applications. (bartleby.com)
  • With the halt in the construction industry, the supply of wood eventually stopped, as wood forms a major building material. (bartleby.com)
  • The basis of the material is careful delignification of a wood block so that the microstructure is preserved, followed by impregnation of a transparent polymer with mathing refractive index. (kth.se)
  • Wood, an age-old building material, has left its mark on the history of architecture. (archdaily.com)
  • Structures like townhouses and ancient cathedrals have seen usage and innovation with wood as a primary material. (archdaily.com)
  • Wood as a material, with its inherent strength and impressive fire resistance, presents hope to an industry in pursuit of a more sustainable future. (archdaily.com)
  • Wood 's been around for long enough now, and we've been using it as a building material for centuries. (archdaily.com)
  • The design phase for one of these wood projects is comparable to any other material, but the construction is much faster," says Robert Malczyk, principal engineer, Equilibrium, Vancouver, Canada. (pmi.org)
  • The wood waste can be incinerated to recover energy, be used as raw material for other wood-based materials or be converted into ethanol or gas by chemical processes, according to the type it is. (admin.ch)
  • Wood is a porous, hygroscopic material that can take up water both within cell walls (cell-wall water) and in the macrovoid structure (capillary water). (lu.se)
  • Therefore, moisture transport in wood occurs through multiple pathways and phases of water, that is, both cell-wall water, liquid water, and water vapor can be transported through the material structure. (lu.se)
  • The focus of the laboratory is on dendrochronological age determination of wood material from archaeological excavations, historical constructions, ship wrecks, art work etc. (lu.se)
  • With reference to wood wastes, which are produced in a substantial amount by the forest and wood industry , one of the possibilities to biodegrade such lignocellulosic material is the composting process. (bvsalud.org)
  • Grain alignment must be considered when joining pieces of wood, or designing wooden structures. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wood can be dated by carbon dating and in some species by dendrochronology to determine when a wooden object was created. (wikipedia.org)
  • Used wood includes wooden building parts and wooden materials such as wooden packaging (crates, palettes), but also wooden furniture. (admin.ch)
  • The wood industry saw a steep downfall due to the onset of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) because the construction industry went to a complete halt. (bartleby.com)
  • "Thickness Dependence of Optical Transmittance of Transparent Wood : Chemical Modification Effects," ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces , vol. 11, no. 38, pp. 35451-35457, 2019. (kth.se)
  • C. Montanari, Y. Li and L. Berglund, "Multifunctional transparent wood for thermal energy storage applications," Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society , vol. 257, 2019. (kth.se)
  • "Effect of transparent wood on the polarization degree of light," Optics Letters , vol. 44, no. 12, pp. 2962-2965, 2019. (kth.se)
  • "Transparent Wood for Thermal Energy Storage and Reversible Optical Transmittance," ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces , vol. 11, no. 22, pp. 20465-20472, 2019. (kth.se)
  • "Optically Transparent Wood Substrate for Perovskite Solar Cells," ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering , vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 6061-6067, 2019. (kth.se)
  • The Canadian Wood Council, supported by National Research Council (NRC) Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP), is offering a technical tour in Austria and Germany from December 1 - December 11, 2019. (constantcontact.com)
  • The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO)-in partnership with Brookhaven National Laboratory , the Alliance for Green Heat , and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory -hosted the Wood Heater Design Challenge to accelerate the design and deployment of clean and efficient wood and pellet heaters in the United States. (energy.gov)
  • Visit Brookhaven National Laboratory's website for more information on the Wood Heater Design Challenge. (energy.gov)
  • The Technology Slam was held virtually on September 29, 2022, where teams had eight minutes to virtually pitch their wood heater technology to a panel of expert judges and an audience of wood heater stakeholders. (energy.gov)
  • Learn more about the Wood Heater Technology Slam . (energy.gov)
  • Download the Wood Heater Design Challenge Report which provides a summary of activities and outcomes from the above three workshops. (energy.gov)
  • Transparent wood is a new emerging wood polymer composite with interesting optical functionalities. (kth.se)
  • "Transparent Wood Smart Windows : Polymer Electrochromic Devices Based on Poly(3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene):Poly(Styrene Sulfonate) Electrodes," ChemSusChem , vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 854-863, 2018. (kth.se)
  • All you need is sandpaper, cleaning cloths, wood fillers and wood paint to bring dusty furniture back to life. (forbes.com)
  • Begin with medium grain sandpaper and progress through fine until you've completely sanded your wood using the extra fine grit. (ehow.com)
  • The wood industry is also known as the lumber industry or timber industry. (bartleby.com)
  • a dark viscid product obtained from wood by distillation or by slow burning without flame, used in its natural state to preserve timber, rope, etc., or subjected to further distillation to yield creosote, oils, and a final residuum, wood pitch. (dictionary.com)
  • While architectural taste plays a role, the main reasons for this absence can be attributed to the wood industries' inability to meet the requirements of availability, affordability, aesthetic appeal, durability, and climatic and structural performance of timber. (archdaily.com)
  • This type of studies can be based on living trees, historical construction timber or wood remains preserved in lakes or peat deposits. (lu.se)
  • As a result, researchers developed an inexpensive auxiliary ventilation system for the horizontal belt sanders that significantly reduced wood dust emissions into the workroom. (cdc.gov)
  • Wood is sometimes defined as only the secondary xylem in the stems of trees, or it is defined more broadly to include the same type of tissue elsewhere such as in the roots of trees or shrubs. (wikipedia.org)
  • Wood forms the part of the secondary xylem of the vascular tissues of the plants and trees. (bartleby.com)
  • These two devices, in combination with the main exhaust hood, decrease wood dust in the workroom without affecting the sanding operations. (cdc.gov)
  • The amount of water in wood is quantified by the moisture content (mass of water in relation to the dry mass), which changes with the surrounding environmental conditions (relative humidity and temperature). (lu.se)
  • It can be found as the threshold moisture content above which physical wood properties do not change significantly with moisture content. (lu.se)
  • The FSP is, however, lower than the maximum moisture content of wood cell walls which occurs in the fully water saturated state. (lu.se)
  • At the end of this chapter, a broad overview is given of experimental methods for characterizing moisture in wood, including determination of moisture content, sorption isotherms, moisture state and location, and moisture transport in wood. (lu.se)
  • Variations in temperature, moisture and a number of other environmental properties may be recorded as changes in ring width but also, for example, as changes in the stable carbon- and oxygen-isotope composition of wood samples. (lu.se)
  • Engineering students frequently use this wood to build model structures and then test them for weight-bearing capacities. (ehow.com)
  • It is one of the major European wood construction conferences which provides architects, engineers, universities and builders with an opportunity to report on experiences, processes and goals related to wood structures and construction. (constantcontact.com)
  • It is a highly refractive, colourless, oily liquid, and was first obtained in 1832 by K. Reichenbach from beech- wood tar . (dictionary.com)
  • Wood is characterized by its hard porous fibrous substance, that forms the outer surface of the stem. (bartleby.com)
  • Known constructions using wood date back ten thousand years. (wikipedia.org)
  • Paint everything from wood crates to letters and signs. (michaels.com)
  • Wood waste forms the largest proportion of organic waste in Switzerland at around 40 percent. (admin.ch)
  • Fungal Biotransformation of Hazardous Organic Compounds in Wood Waste. (bvsalud.org)
  • A diverse spectrum of organisms, such as fungi , bacteria , and actinomycetes , can degrade and transform organic matter , including wood , into valuable nutrients . (bvsalud.org)
  • Buildings like the longhouses in Neolithic Europe were made primarily of wood. (wikipedia.org)
  • The wood industry in tropical Africa is mainly composed of informal and small-scale operations, focused primarily on sawing logs rather than refining wood for architectural or structural purposes. (archdaily.com)
  • Wood, in the strict sense, is yielded by trees, which increase in diameter by the formation, between the existing wood and the inner bark, of new woody layers which envelop the entire stem, living branches, and roots. (wikipedia.org)
  • All the woods generally start as sapwood which forms just below the bark of the trees. (bartleby.com)
  • Wood also said Ark Invest is looking to ramp up its investment in Elon Musk's Twitter and said Tesla stock has more room to run. (businessinsider.com)
  • In its simplest aesthetic meaning, wood grain is the alternating regions of relatively darker and lighter wood resulting from the differing growth parameters occurring in different seasons (i.e., growth rings ) on a cut or split piece of wood. (wikipedia.org)
  • And compared with steel, there's much less construction waste, Mr. Malczyk says, because prefabricated wood products can be precisely milled and designed off-site beforehand. (pmi.org)
  • A distinction is made between four types of wood waste: natural untreated wood, scrap wood, used wood and problem wood waste. (admin.ch)
  • Problem wood waste covers wood treated with wood protection agents, laminated wood waste and mixtures of problem wood waste and other wood. (admin.ch)
  • Used wood and problem wood waste may only be incinerated in municipal solid waste incinerators (MSW) and cement works that have flue gas cleaning. (admin.ch)
  • In particular, microbiological inoculum containing dedicated fungi can contribute to the biodegradation of wood waste, as well as the biotransformation of substances from the protection of wood , such as pentachlorophenol (PCP), lindane ( hexachlorobenzene ) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). (bvsalud.org)
  • The findings of the literature review highlighted how fungi such as Bjerkandera adusta, Phanerochaete chrysosporium , and Trametes versicolor might be ingredients of biological consortia that can be effectively applied in composting wood waste containing substances such as pentachlorophenol , lindane , and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). (bvsalud.org)
  • The wood has changed color, usually becoming darker and the clear coat has become yellowish. (forbes.com)
  • Sometimes, a clear coat of wood conditioner is all you need to revitalize it. (forbes.com)
  • Apart from these, the lumber industry is concerned with the production of primary forest products and secondary products such as wood pulp, which are extensively used by the paper industry. (bartleby.com)
  • I would like to recognize and thank the staff of BC Wood for the extra effort they put towards writing these funding proposals as well as the Industry representatives that provided their own input. (constantcontact.com)
  • With no experience in the lumber and building materials industry, a used lumber truck, $4,000, and an idea there was a need for another lumberyard in Hyannis, Tony Shepley and a partner started Shepley Wood Products in 1978. (capecodchamber.org)
  • From the casement molding around your doors and windows to the shelves that store books to the coffee table that sits proudly in your living room, wood furniture and trim captures the richness and innovation of design elements that make your home different from any other. (ehow.com)
  • One of the most well-known concepts concerning water in wood is the fiber saturation point (FSP). (lu.se)
  • The presence of this composite arrangement makes the wood strong in tension and compression. (bartleby.com)
  • Wood grain is the longitudinal arrangement of wood fibers or the pattern resulting from such an arrangement. (wikipedia.org)
  • Results of search for 'au:'Wood, Robert. (who.int)
  • Coal-tar and wood-tar or pitch, applied hot in thin coats, are also good and cheap preservatives for exposed wood-work. (dictionary.com)
  • According to estimates, wood is produced by approximately 25,000 to 30,000 species of plants, including woody plants and herbaceous plants. (bartleby.com)
  • Speaking in the botanical sense, the gymnosperms and angiosperms are the two wood-producing plant species. (bartleby.com)
  • Wood anatomical analyses of small samples, such as charcoal fragments, are also performed at the laboratory, and microscopic analyses for species determination can be combined with age determination at the radiocarbon dating laboratory , which is also hosted by the Department of Geology. (lu.se)
  • wood tar likewise protects animal matter from change, by the creosote it contains. (dictionary.com)
  • Wood is taking center stage in a surprising number of tall-building construction projects. (pmi.org)
  • Therefore, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health* (NIOSH) recommends limiting wood dust exposures to prevent these health problems. (cdc.gov)
  • The new ventilation system reduced wood dust emitted into the workroom by more than 75% and can easily be built into new belt sanders or added to existing ones. (cdc.gov)
  • A technical report Control of Wood Dust from Horizontal Belt Sanding , Am Ind Hyg Assoc J 46(10):567 577(1985), has been published on this subject. (cdc.gov)
  • Dust from various types of wood. (cdc.gov)
  • Treated lumber is wood that has been treated with chemicals so that it can be used as a support with heavy objects as well as stand up to the elements. (doityourself.com)
  • There are noticeable rings and water marks under the current finish that won't go away with conditioners or wood cleaning products. (forbes.com)
  • There's been a resurgence in taller wood buildings globally, and as these new technologies-in engineered wood products and engineering and design-are proven, builders have pushed past the old limitations," says David Barber, principal engineer, Arup, Washington, D.C., USA. (pmi.org)
  • Showcasing the beauty of wood, British Columbia (B.C.) forest products from sustainably managed forests are being used to help make these important facilities feel warm and inviting, enhancing well-being. (constantcontact.com)
  • Control of insect behavior by natural products / edited by David L. Wood, Robert M. Silverstein, Minoru Nakajima. (who.int)
  • As these woods are light and soft, they form a small portion of furniture such as decorations and linings. (bartleby.com)
  • Before stripping the finish of any piece of wood furniture, you need to decide whether it needs to be refinished at all. (forbes.com)
  • workshops or furniture factories and untreated wood offcuts from building sites (scaffolding planks, struts). (admin.ch)
  • http://www.trashswag.com - find discarded materials like timbers, solid wood furniture, panel doors, windows and other architectural salvage. (makezine.com)
  • In most cases, wood from a single tree is utilised for a piece of furniture to ensure the uniform appearance of all surfaces. (vitra.com)
  • In a venue known for celebrating creativity, BC Wood hosted "Gray Conversations: A Living with Wood Forum" at the Museum of Vancouver as part of the first ever WOOD WEEK BC. (constantcontact.com)
  • This can be caused by factors such as knots, burls or "crotch" wood - where large branches separate from the trunk. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since each succeeding ring is laid down on the outside of the wood previously formed, it follows that unless a tree materially increases its production of wood from year to year, the rings must necessarily become thinner as the trunk gets wider. (wikipedia.org)
  • As a tree grows, lower branches often die, and their bases may become overgrown and enclosed by subsequent layers of trunk wood, forming a type of imperfection known as a knot. (wikipedia.org)
  • Large commercial installations usually use wood chips as fuel. (maine.gov)
  • "Facile Processing of Transparent Wood Nanocomposites with Structural Color from Plasmonic Nanoparticles," Chemistry of Materials , vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 3736-3745, 2021. (kth.se)
  • "Light Scattering by Structurally Anisotropic Media : A Benchmark with Transparent Wood," Advanced Optical Materials , vol. 6, no. 23, 2018. (kth.se)
  • "Towards centimeter thick transparent wood through interface manipulation," Journal of Materials Chemistry A , vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 1094-1101, 2018. (kth.se)
  • Only natural untreated wood, scrap wood and pollutant-free used wood are permitted as raw materials in the manufacture of wood-based materials and paper. (admin.ch)
  • When using a power sander, be careful not to gouge the wood. (ehow.com)
  • Pittacal, pit′a-kal, n. a blue substance obtained from wood-tar oil and used in dyeing. (dictionary.com)