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On the Experimental Assessment of the Molecular-Scale Interactions between Wood and Water by Nayomi Z. Plaza

“…Although molecular-scale wood-water interactions needed for moisture-durability can lead to the accelerated development of moisture-durable products, these…”
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Wood Moisture-Induced Swelling at the Cellular Scale—Ab Intra by Xavier Arzola-Villegas, Roderic Lakes, Nayomi Z. Plaza, Joseph E. Jakes

“…Wood, a complex hierarchical material, continues to be widely used as a resource to meet humankind's material needs, in addition to providing inspiration for…”
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Informing the improvement of forest products durability using small angle neutron scattering by Plaza, Nayomi Z., Pingali, Sai Venkatesh, Qian, Shuo, Heller, William T., Jakes, Joseph E.

“…A better understanding of how wood nanostructure swells with moisture is needed to accelerate the development of forest products with enhanced moisture…”
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Quasistatic and Dynamic Nanoindentation Measurements of Pinus radiata D. Don S2 and CCML Cell Wall Layers by Oswaldo Erazo, Joseph E. Jakes, Nayomi Z. Plaza, Judith Vergara-Figueroa, Paulina Valenzuela, William Gacitúa

“…Quasistatic nanoindentation is a proven tool that provides information on the micromechanical behavior of wood cell walls. However, quasistatic tests cannot…”
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Nanostructural Changes Correlated to Decay Resistance of Chemically Modified Wood Fibers by Plaza, Nayomi Z., Pingali, Sai Venkatesh, Ibach, Rebecca E.

“…Reactive chemical modifications have been shown to impart decay resistance to wood. These modifications change hydroxyl availability, water uptake, surface…”
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Effect of alkali treatment and fungal degradation on the nanostructure and cellulose arrangement in Scots pine cell walls – A neutron and X-ray scattering study by Broda, Magdalena, Plaza, Nayomi Z., Jakes, Joseph E., Baez, Carlos, Pingali, Sai Venkatesh, Bras, Wim

“…Research on new conservation treatments for historical wood requires considerable amounts of appropriate wood material, which is hard to acquire. Thus, we…”
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X-ray methods to observe and quantify adhesive penetration into wood by Jakes, Joseph E., Frihart, Charles R., Hunt, Christopher G., Yelle, Daniel J., Plaza, Nayomi Z., Lorenz, Linda, Grigsby, Warren, Ching, Daniel J., Kamke, Fred, Gleber, Sophie-Charlotte, Vogt, Stefan, Xiao, Xianghui

“…To accelerate development of new and improved wood adhesives for engineered wood products, the optimal adhesive penetration into wood needs to be better…”
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Small Angle Neutron Scattering Reveals Wood Nanostructural Features in Decay Resistant Chemically Modified Wood by Ibach, Rebecca E., Plaza, Nayomi Z., Pingali, Sai Venkatesh

“…While it is known that modifying the hydroxyls in wood can improve the decay resistance; what is often missing in the literature is whether these modifications…”
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Integrating Multiscale Studies of Adhesive Penetration into Wood by Jakes, Joseph E, Frihart, Charles R, Hunt, Christopher G, Yelle, Daniel J, Plaza, Nayomi Z, Lorenz, Linda F, Ching, Daniel J

“…Abstract The development of new and improved wood adhesives is hindered by an incomplete mechanistic understanding of what makes a wood–adhesive bond able to…”
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Small-Angle Neutron Scattering as a New Tool to Evaluate Moisture-Induced Swelling in the Nanostructure of Chemically Modified Wood Cell Walls by Plaza, Nayomi Z, Jakes, Joseph E, Frihart, Charles R, Hunt, Christopher G, Yelle, Daniel J, Lorenz, Linda F, Heller, William T, Pingali, Sai Venkatesh, Stone, Donald S

“…Abstract Wood-based products can be a sustainable and more environmentally friendly alternative to traditional construction materials because of their reduced…”
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Durability of model degraded wood treated with organosilicon compounds against fungal decay by Broda, Magdalena, Plaza, Nayomi Z.

“…Conservation agents used to preserve heavily degraded wooden artefacts typically act as consolidants that restore the structural integrity of an object…”
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X-ray methods to observe and quantify adhesive penetration into wood by Jakes, Joseph E., Frihart, Charles R., Hunt, Christopher G., Yelle, Daniel J., Plaza, Nayomi Z., Lorenz, Linda, Grigsby, Warren, Ching, Daniel J., Kamke, Fred, Gleber, Sophie-Charlotte, Vogt, Stefan, Xiao, Xianghui

“…To accelerate the development of new and improved wood adhesives for engineered wood products, the optimal penetration of adhesives into wood needs to be…”
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Neutron Scattering Studies of Nano-Scale Wood-Water Interactions by Plaza Rodriguez, Nayomi Z

“…Understanding and controlling water in wood is critical to both improving forest products moisture durability and developing new sustainable forest…”
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