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Title: Light Transmittance of Mahogany Wood Treated with 20% Hydrogen Peroxide Solution
Authors: Popovic, Jasmina
Svrzic, Srdjan
Gajic, Milica
Maletić, Slavica 
Dodevski, Vladimir
Djiporovic-Momcilovic, Milanka
Krstic, Sanja
Popovic, Mladjan
Keywords: 20% Hydrogen peroxide;Haze;Lignin content;Optical transmittance;Transparent wood
Issue Date: 1-Jan-2022
Journal: BioResources
Abstract: 
There is an increased research interest in methods for transparent wood production and its use. Wood transparency could be achieved by its delignification followed by an impregnation process with polymers having proper optical properties. However, delignification processes are mainly time consuming and not environmentally friendly. The possibility of treating mahogany wood (Swietenia macrophylla King) with 20% hydrogen peroxide for 70, 100, 135, and 170 min at 103 °C is presented in this research. According to the treatment duration, lignin content decreased 40 to 94% relative to its initial content in the control samples, whilst the cell structure remained intact. Due to the light scatter effect, caused mainly by wood tissue structure, the direct optical transmittance of treated samples in the visible light spectrum (400 to 800 nm) was less than 40%. Simultaneously, the total optical transmittance of samples treated for 100 and 135 min reached values between 70 to 80% with high values of the haze at approximately 30 and 60%. Optical transmittance in the visible spectrum area of the samples treated for 170 min was from 45 to 80% and the haze from 25 to 45%.
URI: https://physrep.ff.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1380
DOI: 10.15376/biores.17.4.5919-5935
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