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Title: Colour and chemical changes on photodegraded beech wood with or without red heartwood
Authors: Calienno, Luca
Lo Monaco, Angela 
Pelosi, Claudia 
Picchio, Rodolfo 
Journal: WOOD SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 
Issue Date: 2014
Abstract: 
The focus of this study was to investigate the chemical and colour changes occurring at different exposure times on artificially photo-irradiated surfaces of normal and red heartwood in beech in order to understand the mechanisms that cause the changes and to evaluate the possibility of usages of beech not only for energy production purposes. In this sense, surface colour modifications are of crucial importance to define the commercial value of beech wood. The artificial photo-irradiation of the wood samples was performed in a Solar Box, equipped with an ultraviolet filter that cuts off the spectrum at 280 nm. Reflectance spectrophotometry and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy were used to assess artificial sunlight influence. The experimental data were statistically treated to evaluate their significance. Colour monitoring revealed that wood surface colour undergoes an important variation due to photo-irradiation, occurring within the first 24–48 h. Moreover, it was found that the chromatic coordinates (L*a*b*) in normal wood and in red heartwood tended to similar values after 504 h. FTIR spectroscopy allowed for investigating the rate of photodegradation of wood surface due to oxidation reactions of wood components. The results were validated by statistical analysis applied both to the colorimetric and spectroscopic data.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2067/48301
ISSN: 0043-7719
DOI: 10.1007/s00226-014-0670-z
Rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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