1 Introduction
2 Material and methods
2.1 Treatment of the wood specimens
Chemical characterisation | Trade name | Concentration |
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Sodium water glass with additives | BETOL 39 T3 (Woellner, Ludwigshafen, Germany) | 15% wt/wt |
Amino-alkyl-functional oligomeric siloxane | DYNASYLAN® HS 2909 (Evonik, Rheinfelden, Germany) | 20% wt/wt |
N-methylol compound, 1,3-dimethylol-4,5 dihydroxyethylen urea (catalyst MgCl2, 5% concentration related to the DMDHEU concentration) | DMDHEU (BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany) | 1.3 M |