Abstract
Abstract Key message Green chemistry for and from wood has developed numerous industrial products, namely biosourced, green wood adhesives and preservatives, foams, composite matrices, laminates, hard and flexible plastics, flexible films, and abrasive grinding discs, and their number is still growing. Introduction This review addresses (1) the elimination of toxic aldehydes from the most common wood panel adhesive, the one based on urea, itself a natural product, (2) biosourced adhesives derived from wood or other vegetable matter and used for wood products, and (3) wood and bark tannin-based foams, natural fiber composites using tannin matrices, paper surface laminates and continuous high-pressure paper laminates using tannin-furanics, hard plastics based on tannin-furanic materials and some of their applications, flexible biosourced tannin-furanic films, and biosourced wood preservatives.
Highlights
Green chemistry is a very wide field that encompasses such a variety of raw materials and products that a serious review on such a subject has forcefully to be partial to some more detailed aspects
What will be dealt with will be (1) the elimination of toxic aldehydes from the most common wood panel adhesive, the one based on urea, itself a natural product, (2) biosourced adhesives derived from wood or other vegetable matter and used for wood products, and (3) tannin-based foams, natural fiber composites using tannin matrices, paper surface laminates and continuous high-pressure paper laminates using tannin-furanics, hard plastics based on tanninfuranic materials and some of their applications, flexible biosourced tannin-furanic films, and biosourced wood preservatives
Wood products are the largest users of adhesives, wood adhesives constituting more than 65 % by volume of all the adhesives used in the world
Summary
Green chemistry is a very wide field that encompasses such a variety of raw materials and products that a serious review on such a subject has forcefully to be partial to some more detailed aspects. Even to speak of green chemistry related to wood products and products derived from wood or for wood becomes a hard and vast task considering the ferment of ideas and work in this field going on for quite a few years. Even to deal briefly with all these will still not give a complete image of such a vast field
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