Wood is one of the most important building materials. During the service life of wood and derived materials, various degradation factors affect performance. To assess how weathering influenced the material resistance and moisture dynamics of wood, 11 different materials were exposed to natural weathering for 9, 18 and 27 months or artificial accele...
The main goal of the investigation was to measure and estimate the thermal stability of pinosylvin, pinosylvin monomethyl ether, robinetin, and dihydrorobinetin, i.e., characteristic compounds of wood of Scots pine and black locust, respectively. The pure compounds were analyzed with chromatography before and after they were steam-sterilized and ov...
In recent years, interest in sustainability and being environmentally friendly has increased. Wood is a durable and renewable building material, which is becoming more common in the constructions industry. In 2002, the government in Sweden adopted a national strategy to promote an increased use of wood in buildings. However, the usage of wood in co...
Wood-polymer composites are increasingly produced through fused deposition modeling (FDM)—an additive manufacturing technique. The versatility of this technology has attracted several industries to print complex shapes and structures. This underscores the importance of studying the mechanical properties of the FDM parts, specifically, their elastic...
Les je po poseku in uporabi za konstrukcije izpostavljen staranju, ki je med drugim odvisno od pogojev izpostavitve. V času življenjske dobe oz. uporabe je les izpostavljen fotodegradaciji, biodegradaciji, površinskim in notranjim strukturnim spremembam in staranju, ki se kaže v spremembi barve, kemijske sestave, higroskopnosti, dimenzijske stabiln...
Published in The New phytologist
Lignin is one of the main factors causing lignocellulosic biomass recalcitrance to enzymatic hydrolysis. Glasshouse-grown poplars severely downregulated for CINNAMYL ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE 1 (CAD1), the enzyme catalysing the last step in the monolignol-specific branch of lignin biosynthesis, have increased saccharification yields and normal growth. ...
Published in Frontiers in Built Environment
Using wood in multistory apartment construction (WMC) has a climate-positive advantage with buildings acting as long-term carbon storage. Business ecosystem (BE) development around WMC is needed to accelerate the adoption of wooden materials in the conservative construction industry. As the business actors around WMC are essentially different from ...
Published in Frontiers in Plant Science
Published in Frontiers in Microbiology
Introduction In the vineyard, yeast communities impact the ripening and fermentation of grapes and are influenced by geographical location, climate, and soil characteristics. Despite the great advancement in our knowledge of the vineyard mycobiota, a key step of the process leading to the definition of the vineyard yeast community is still poorly u...
Published in Environmental entomology
Temperature is a key abiotic condition that limits the distributions of organisms, and forest insects are particularly sensitive to thermal extremes. Whereas winged adult insects generally are able to escape unfavorable temperatures, other less-vagile insects (e.g., larvae) must withstand local microclimatic conditions to survive. Here, we measured...
