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results of relative water uptake and water repellent effectiveness. Durability ... Silicone treated and water impregnated beech wood (Fagus sylvatica L.) was tested with T. versicolor ..... systems based on organic silicon compounds – a review.
Cost Action E37 Final Conference in Bordeaux 2008 Socio-economic perspectives of treated wood for the common European market

Combined effect of hydrophobation and durability improvement of wood treated with silicone emulsions Holger Militz1, Carsten Mai1, Shyamal C Ghosh1 1

Wood Biology and Wood Products, Burckhardt Institute, Georg-August University, Büsgenweg 4, 37077 Göttingen, Germany e-mail: [email protected]

Keywords: Amino-silicone, alkyl modified silicone, brown rot, macro emulsion, micro emulsion, quat-silicone, soft rot, white rot.

ABSTRACT Silicone emulsions with three different functional groups and sizes of emulsion particles, i.e., quat-silicone micro-emulsion (