Author(s)

Tamara V. Sakhno¹, Nikolay N. Barashkov², Irina S. Irgibaeva³, S. V. Pustovit⁴, Yuriy E. Sakhno⁵

¹Poltava Department of Academy of Sciences of Technological Cybernetics of the Ukraine, Poltava, Ukraine.
²R&D, Micro-Tracers, Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA.
³Department of Chemistry, Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan.
⁴Institute of Information and Innovative Technologies Poltava State Agrarian Academy, Poltava, Ukraine.
⁵Poltava Institute of Economics and Law at the University “Ukraine”, Poltava, Ukraine.

Three major types of protective coating of wood and wood-based materials have been considered. These three types include the coatings based on carboxyl-containing water-soluble polymers which are easily cross-linked by inorganic salts or OH-containing compounds, pH-sensitive coatings and polymer multi-layer structures. First of three mentioned approaches allows affecting permeability and enhancing the prevention the loss of water from the surface of wood to its surrounding. The advantage of the second approach is its ability to vary and purposely adjust the polymer composition and the number and distribution of -COOH groups in the chain which make the originally water-soluble polymers completely insoluble. The strong feature of the third approach which includes broad use of hydrogen-bonded films produced by layer-by-layer self-assembly is the possibility of manipulation of coatings stability after construction.

Protective Coatings, Polymer Films, pH-Sensitivity, Water-Soluble Polymers, Hydrogen Bonds, Self-Assembly

Sakhno, T. , Barashkov, N. , Irgibaeva, I. , Pustovit, S. and Sakhno, Y. (2016) Polymer Coatings for Protection of Wood and Wood-Based Materials. Advances in Chemical Engineering and Science, 6, 93-110. doi: 10.4236/aces.2016.62012.