Soutenance de thèse Romain Bordage

Filling liquids in wood is a key stage in some wood transformation processes, such as resin impregnation to produce wood composites or delignification treatments with aqueous solutions to densify wood and enhance mechanical properties. Such a filling can occur spontaneously in contact with water (imbibition) and involves several water transport mechanisms: vapor or capillary liquid transport of free water through the vessels and lumens of the cellular architecture of wood, diffusion of bound water through the polymeric wood cell walls, and interface mass exchanges.......MORE