Water in Wood : A Review of Current Understanding and Knowledge Gaps
(2022) In Forests 13(12).- Abstract
Wood-water interactions are central to the utilization of wood in our society since water affects many important characteristics of wood. This topic has been investigated for more than a century, but new knowledge continues to be generated as a result of improved experimental and computational methods. This review summarizes our current understanding of the fundamentals of water in wood and highlights significant knowledge gaps. Thus, the focus is not only on what is currently known but equally important, what is yet unknown. The review covers locations of water in wood; phase changes and equilibrium states of water in wood; thermodynamics of sorption; terminology including cell wall water (bound water), capillary water (free water),... (More)
Wood-water interactions are central to the utilization of wood in our society since water affects many important characteristics of wood. This topic has been investigated for more than a century, but new knowledge continues to be generated as a result of improved experimental and computational methods. This review summarizes our current understanding of the fundamentals of water in wood and highlights significant knowledge gaps. Thus, the focus is not only on what is currently known but equally important, what is yet unknown. The review covers locations of water in wood; phase changes and equilibrium states of water in wood; thermodynamics of sorption; terminology including cell wall water (bound water), capillary water (free water), fiber saturation point, and maximum cell wall moisture content; shrinkage and swelling; sorption hysteresis; transport of water in wood; and kinetics of water vapor sorption in the cell wall.
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- author
- Thybring, Emil Engelund ; Fredriksson, Maria LU ; Zelinka, Samuel L. and Glass, Samuel V.
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- fiber saturation point, hysteresis, maximum cell wall moisture content, moisture, shrinkage, sorption, swelling, transport
- in
- Forests
- volume
- 13
- issue
- 12
- article number
- 2051
- publisher
- MDPI AG
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85143539976
- ISSN
- 1999-4907
- DOI
- 10.3390/f13122051
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Funding Information: This research was funded by the European Union Interreg Öresund-Kattegat-Skagerrak “MODUWOOD” project, the University of Copenhagen, and the US Forest Service. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 by the authors.
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- 2023-03-27 09:05:51
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