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FPS
The 21st International Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation (NDTE) of Wood Symposium will be held in Freiburg, Germany, Tuesday through Friday, Sept. 24-27.
This symposium will be hosted by the ForestResearch Institute Baden-Württemberg (FVA) and is co-sponsored by the USDAForest Service ProductsLaboratory (FPL), the ForestProducts Society (FPS) and the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO). The conference will be held at Katholische Akademie Freiburg, which is situated close to the city center of Freiburg.
This Symposium is a forum for those involved in nondestructive testing and evaluation of wood, wood-based products and structures. It will bring together the international nondestructive testing and evaluation research community, users of various nondestructive testing technologies, equipment development and manufacturing professionals, representatives from various government agencies, and other groups to share research findings and new nondestructive testing products and technologies.
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FPS
The 12th International Conference on Wood Adhesives is coming to Portland, Oregon, Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2020, at the Portland Hilton Downtown Hotel. This is the premier technical conference on advances in adhesion of wood and biomass. Industry representatives were the majority of the 241 attendees in 2017, evenly split between the US and the rest of the world.
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Southeast AgNet Radio Network
Soy flour could soon replace petroleum — at least in adhesives used in the manufacturing of particleboard.
Professor Brian Via of the Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences has obtained a patent that will allow soy flour to replace petroleum-based adhesives traditionally utilized to manufacture wood components in particleboard, an engineered wood product commonly used in indoor furniture. This innovative method will provide a more cost-effective and ecofriendly alternative to commonly used petroleum-based products, thus lowering the amount of formaldehyde released from formaldehyde-based adhesives.
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Virginia Tech University via EurekAlert!
The revolution in genome sequencing has radically changed the field of forestry, allowing researchers to understand how the genome influences specific traits of economic and ecological importance.
Now, a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will help Associate Professor Jason Holliday of the College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech University research the genomic architecture of poplars, fast-growing trees that are a crucial source of forest products.
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Electronic Design
Although it may seem counterintuitive to even consider wood as having a functional role in electronics, researchers demonstrated that it's possible to use extensively modified wood as the transducer for harvesting useful energy from low-grade (also called low temperature) sources such as body heat. A team based at the University of Maryland has transformed this common material so that it can use a low temperature value to efficiently generate ionic voltage.
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New Atlas
Water desalination technologies play a vital role in converting saltwater into freshwater in parts of the world where access to the latter is lacking, but there is plenty of room for improvement. One opportunity for this lies in the materials used for water filtration systems, with scientists putting forward a wood-based alternative to the plastic-based membranes currently in use, with early experiments indicating a heightened performance to boot.
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Forest2Market
Those of us close to the forest products supply chain have watched with great interest as the cross-laminated timber (CLT) and "mass timber" building products industry has exploded over the last decade. While policy drivers such as the Timber Innovation Act and the International Code Council's change in building codes have assisted in making these products more mainstream, the free market has ultimately driven the remarkable growth of the industry, which is helping the green movement to reassess the benefits of wood as well.
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Physics World
Lightweight strong materials that can resist huge amounts of mechanical stress are in demand for many modern technologies. Surprisingly enough, the inspiration for these cutting-edge resistant materials can come from one of the first materials that mankind used to build utensils — wood. A group of researchers have developed a method for building long fibers starting from cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs).
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CNW
Investing in Canada's forest sector is an investment in the future. That is why Canada supports wood innovation, including educating the next generation of Canadian engineers and architects on the benefits of designing and building with wood.
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University of California, Riverside
Fuels made from agricultural or forestry wastes known as lignocellulosic biomass have long been a champion in the quest to reduce use of fossil fuels. But plant cell walls have some innate defenses that make the process to break them down more difficult and costly than it could be.
In a leap forward that could be a game changer for understanding how plant biomass can be more efficiently broken down, a research team at the University of California, Riverside have joined forces with teams at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Central Florida to create a chemical roadmap to breach these defenses.
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Power
After flowering between 2008 and 2014, power from biomass has withered in the face of market forces. Furthermore, lawmakers in Washington, D.C., have resisted regulatory action that could boost the industry.
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