Nano/Silane Impregnation System for Wood Protection from Biotic and Abiotic Factors

Abstract

Wood is very susceptible to the action of biotic and abiotic agents: it can be mentioned as the three main ones, wood-decay fungi, humidity and fire Currently, there is a growing interest in the protection of wood and wood products to extend it life in service, using environmentally friendly preservatives. The aim of this paper was the study of nano/silane impregnation system for Wood protection from biotic and abiotic factors. The biotic agents studied have been wood decay fungi and the abiotic agents have been moisture and fire. In conclusion, this paper has shown that all the treatments have presented an excellent protective performance against biotic and abiotic agents. In important to mentioned that a synergistic effect can be observed when generating the silane/nanoparticle mixtures, resulting in protective systems with excellent efficiency for all the degrading agents. Moreover, it presents an easy application (immersion), which represents not only a watertight protective system, but also a set of systems that may be used and managed according to the availability of the active components, the available costs, and, most importantly, without having to modify the form of application.