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Tannin resin-boron associations: Leaching and biological resistance
2012 - IRG/WP 12-30587
…in wood preservation formulations has allowed to use this fungicide only for short term applications. The recently discovered adduct with flavonoids allows boron to resist longer periods of time within wood and consequently extend its life. Two different leaching treatments were compared and the fungal and termite…
G Tondi, S Wieland, N Lemenager, A Petutschnigg, A Pizzi, M-F Thevenon
Stabilization of IPBC in wood through the use of organosilicon compounds
2012 - IRG/WP 12-30597
The aim of the research was to increase durability of wood treated with 3-Iodo-2-propynyl butylcarbamate (IPBC). The study used a blend of silanes. Biological examination against microfungi was performed to determine resistance of Scots pine wood treated with…
B Mazela, W Perdoch
The resistance of thermo and thermo-oil modified black poplar wood (Populus nigra L.) to Basidiomycetes fungi
2012 - IRG/WP 12-40585
…the wood resistance to fungi is its impregnation with fungicide. It may have however an unfavourable effect on health and environmental conditions and in many situations cannot be used. The thermo- and thermo-oil modification of wood is considered as another more ecological friendly method of improving some…
A Fojutowski, A Kropacz, A Noskowiak
Study of the use of organosolv lignin as bio-preservative of wood
2012 - IRG/WP 12-30603
…the antioxidant potential of lignin by ABTS method and the fungicide potential by ASTM D 2017 – 81 were analyzed. The analyzed lignin showed neutralization and inhibition activities (antioxidant capacity). These characteristics demonstrated that lignin could be an excellent wood bio-preservative obtained from…
P S B dos Santos, A Garcia, P H G de Cademartori, D A Gatto, J Labidi
Decay resistance attributes of teak (Tectona grandis L. f.) wood: comparison of the fungicidal activities of quinones
2011 - IRG/WP 11-10752
…droxy-epiisocatalponol from the naphthoquinones family were fungicide. However, lapachol and all studied anthraquinones (2-(hydroxymethyl)anthraquinone, anthraquinone-2-carboxylic acid and tectoquinone) were fungistatic or not toxic.
In the present study, 1,4-naphthoquinone was found the more toxic with a fungicidal…
F B Niamké, N Amusant, N Lemenager, G Chaix, M-F Thévenon, C Baudassé, S Kati-Coulibaly, A Amissa Adima, I Gossan Ado, C Jay-Allemand
Wood protectors sensitivity of Fusarium circinatum, a quarantine organism in Europe
2011 - IRG/WP 11-10755
…developing projects to evaluate the effectiveness of the fungicide and insecticide wood preservatives used actually for the temporary and permanently protection of timber, in order to see if this kind of products has a biocide effect against these quarantine organisms. Particularly, the objective of this work has…
Y Serrano, S Cobacho, A Navas, M Conde, R Raposo, M T Troya
The case for using borates in termite control in tropical Australia
2011 - IRG/WP 11-30573
…glycol borates, deltamethrin, permethrin and the fungicide propiconazole, that surpassed all the minimum requirements of AS 1604.1-2010 for the H2 status, even penetrating the heartwood of radiata pine and oregon. While, this standard does not specify the methods of preservative treatment that may be…
B M Ahmed (Shiday), J R J French
Sensitivity to Copper of Basidiospores from Copper Tolerant Fungi: Fomitopsis palustris and Oligoporus placentus
2010 - IRG/WP 10-10707
Copper continues to be an important fungicide in wood preservation. It is the primary component of the preservatives that have replaced chromated copper arsenate for treated wood in residential construction in North America. However, a co-biocide is normally needed to protect against copper…
C S Woo, P I Morris
Distribution and availability of preservative components in ACQ treated wood - effects of coatings and weathering
2010 - IRG/WP 10-30537
…lumber. Samples were evaluated just after treatment and stabilization, or after 3 years of laboratory storage, or after 3 years of natural weathering exposure. The objective was to investigate how the distributions of copper, quat and monoethanolamine (MEA) changed under different exposure conditions to try to…
T Ung, M Nejad, P Cooper
Antifungal and wood preservative efficacy of IPBC is enhanced by α - aminoisobutyric acid
2010 - IRG/WP 10-30544
…Factorial combinations of AIB with either
the azole fungicide tebuconazole, or 3-iodo-2-propynyl butyl carbamate (IPBC), were
tested for inhibition of growth in wood decay fungi. The concentration of IPBC required
for 95% inhibition of the three fungi tested was reduced by approximately 50% in the
presence…
P Bota, E Baines, A Mead, S C Watkinson
Preventing decay in termite monitoring stations
2010 - IRG/WP 10-30546
…baits, e.g., with the addition of a non-termite-repellent fungicide.
A M Taylor, Jae-Woo Kim, S Duarte, L Nunes, J D Lloyd
Study on the thickness swelling of mould-resistant chemical treated bamboo strand woven outdoor flooring
2010 - IRG/WP 10-40489
…after treated with preservatives. Water-based organic fungicide preservative (ZJFC-Ⅰ) and the compounds of CCC and Propiconazole (PPA) (ZJFC-Ⅱ) when dried to certain moisture content, had no or little influences on the thickness swelling of BSWF, which were 14.5% and 14.7%, respectively, a little higher than…
Fangli Sun, Binfu Bao, Shenyuan Fu, Anliang Chen
Comparison of colour change in wood clear-coating systems including inorganic and organic UV absorbers for exterior use
2010 - IRG/WP 10-40499
…both systems showed a significant improvement of colour stabilization compared to the control samples. In addition, the wood surface from cracks was protected with the clear-coat containing both of UV absorber.
Ö Özgenç, B Forsthuber, A Teischinger, C Hansmann
Assessment of mould growth on coated wood - methods and application
2009 - IRG/WP 09-20423
…on coated wood. 7 coatings with different typology and fungicide were tested according to EN927-3 outdoors for 2 years at Sogn test station, Oslo, Norway. Results obtained from visual assessment by using the rating scale in EN927-3 and a chosen algorithm for digital image processing was compared and the methods…
L Ross Gobakken, C M Whist, O Høibø, P J Hovde, E Larnøy
Copper to quat ratio in alkaline copper quat (ACQ) wood preservative - Effects on fixation and leaching of preservative components in red pine
2009 - IRG/WP 09-30496
…quat (ACQ) formulation on the rate of copper fixation or stabilization and the resistance of treated wood to leaching of copper and quat (DDACb). Red pine samples were treated with ACQ, having CuO to DDACb ratios of 2:1 (the normal ratio for ACQ-D), 1:1 and 1:2, at concentrations of 0.6%, 1% and 1.5%. Treated…
S Pankras, P A Cooper, T Ung, L Awoyemi
Laboratory test of some formulations against stain and mould fungi isolated from bamboo wood
2009 - IRG/WP 09-30508
To screen the effective anti-mould formulations, fungicides such as carbendazim, tebuconazole, fludioxonil, difenoconazole, prochloraz, benomyl and 8-hydroxy-quinoline copper (copper oxine) were selected to conduct the laboratory test of fungicidal activity by method of inhibition zone against…
Xingxia Ma, Airui Sun, Mingliang Jiang, Daochun Qin
Wood preservation by a mixed anhydride treatment: Using simple models of polymeric wood compounds
2008 - IRG/WP 08-30457
Treatment of wood by a mixed aceto/oleic (or other fatty acid residue) anhydride promoted as a safe and environment friendly wood preservation system has been examined quantitatively by liquid phase 13C NMR and solid phase MAS-DEC (proton decoupling) 13C NMR t…
F Lyon, M-F Thevenon, A Pizzi, G Tondi, A Despres, J Gril, S Rigolet
Effect of amphiphilic antioxidant alkyl ammonium ascorbate on inhibition of fungal growth: Application to wood preservatives formulation
2008 - IRG/WP 08-30466
Amphiphilic surfactants were synthesized from ascorbic acid and different fatty amines and evaluated for formulation of wood preservation products. Characterization of physicochemical properties of the new compounds indicated classical behavior of cationic sur…
C Gérardin , T Koumbi Mounanga, P Gérardin
Formation and Structure of Metal Azole Complexes
2008 - IRG/WP 08-30469
…ratio 1:2 were readily formed at room temperature with the fungicides tebuconazole and propiconazole. The structure of copper and zinc tebuconazole acetate and zinc cis-propiconazole chloride were examined by X-ray crystallography. In copper tebuconazole acetate, the copper atom lies on a crystallographic inversion…
P D Evans, K J Schmalzl, C M Forsyth, G D Fallon, S Schmid, B Bendixen, S Heimdal
Effectiveness of MOQ® OX 50 (CCB-Oxide) wood preservative – Part 2: Field tests
2008 - IRG/WP 08-30483
…this product is the only CCB-oxide type preservative with fungicide and insecticide properties registered at the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Resources (IBAMA) that complies with the requirements of the Brazilian and European markets for preserved wood. For over five decades, salt-based CCB…
A Gandolfi Jr, C Salvela, D R Macedo, J M Vidal
Multifactorial Antimicrobial Wood Protectants
2008 - IRG/WP 08-30484
…to improved wood protection. Recent adoption of effective fungicide technology in food sanitation and agriculture to applications in wood protection has led to the development of novel wood protectants. Specifically, formulations that incorporate low molecular weight monocarboxylic acids with selected adjuvants as…
R D Coleman, C A Clausen
Silver – The Next Generation Wood Preservative
2007 - IRG/WP 07-30419
The successful introduction and commercial use of products designed to have controlled release of silver ion over long time periods prompted the Silver Research Consortium and the US Forest Products Laboratory to undertake research to see if silver could also…
J R Ellis, K Jayachandran, D Nicholas
Silver as a Wood Preservative Environmental Requirements and Concerns
2007 - IRG/WP 07-30420
…Protection Agency (USEPA) under the US Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act. In addition, many other national and international organizations maintain close observance of the effects of silver in different environments. The US EPA has also issued a specific announcement that the agency requires that all…
J R Ellis
Growth and succession of mould on commercial paint systems in two field sites
2007 - IRG/WP 07-30421
…with lowest degree of mould growth had IPBC as the only fungicide in the top coat and a mixture of several fungicides in the primer. With few exceptions, paint systems with an alkyd top coat, either solvent-borne or water-borne, have higher degree of mould growth than acrylic and mixed alkyd/acrylic top coats.
L Ross Gobakken, K M Jenssen
Antifungal activity and synergistic effect of cinnamaldehyde combined with antioxidants against wood decay fungi
2007 - IRG/WP 07-30445
…a better candidate than pure antioxidant for the system of fungicide/antioxidant.
Fu-Lan Hsu, Tsair-Bor Yen, Hui- Ting Chang, Shang-Tzen Chang