Preface A new understanding o f how wood degrading agents attack wood, combined with escalating restrictions on traditional w o o d preservative chemicals, are the two primary issues that spurred the three co-editors' interests in producing this text and the associated A m e r i c a n Chemical Society ( A C S ) Cellulose, Paper, and Textile D i v i s i o n Symposium Downloaded by 80.82.77.83 on June 2, 2018 | https://pubs.acs.org Publication Date: March 31, 2003 | doi: 10.1021/bk-2003-0845.pr001
Current Knowledge of Wood Deterioration Mechanisms and Its Impact on Biotechnology and Wood Preservation. This symposium was held A p r i l 2001 in San Diego, California, at the A C S National Meeting. The success o f the symposium led to the approval by the A C S to develop this book. The objective o f this book is to provide an overall view o f our current understanding o f wood degradation processes and new developments in the rapidly changing field o f wood protection. The later is particularly important in light o f the increasing restrictions on the traditional wood preservatives, creosote, pentachlorophenol, and chromated copper arsenate, which currently account for about 9 5 % o f the w o o d preservatives used in North A m e r i c a . However, within two years o f the publication o f this text use o f these chemicals w i l l likely account for less than 50% o f the preservative market globally and, thus, the later part o f this text explores potential alternative biocides and protection methodology. In addition to chapters written by the symposium speakers, chapters were also contributed by those who did not speak at the symposium to provide an encompassing view o f this rapidly changing field. Their chapters include information ranging from wood preservative chemistry to marine borer biology. The chapters are arranged first to provide the reader with an under standing o f the organisms that cause deterioration and the mechanisms they employ i n breaking down wood. This is followed by methods used to detect deterioration or to identify the specific organism involved, and the final section discusses the protection o f w o o d products. It was an enjoyable and truly cooperative effort by a l l three editors to pull these chapters together into a comprehensive text. W i t h authors
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contributing from around the world, the three editors feel that the text should provide the readers with an up-to-date review o f our rapidly changing field.
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W e acknowledge the international team o f reviewers, listed sep arately after the Preface, who made this text possible by their thorough and professional reviews. W e are also indebted to our sponsors without whose help the sym posium and book could not have been realized: A m e r i c a n Chemical Society Cellulose, Paper, and Textiles D i v i s i o n ; Chemical Specialities, Inc.; Hickson Corporation (now A r c h W o o d Protection, Inc.); Janssen Pharmacenica, Inc.; L o n z a Group, L t d . ; M i s s i s s i p p i State University, Forest Products Laboratory; Osmose, Inc.; R o h m and Haas Company; University o f Maine, W o o d Utilization Research Program; and Weyerhaeuser Company, Inc. W e hope you enjoy the book.
Barry Goodell Professor, W o o d Science and Technology Cooperating Professor, Chemical Engineering and the Advanced Engineered W o o d Composite Center The University of Maine Orono, ME 04469-5755
Darrel D. Nicholas Tor P. Schultz Forest Products Laboratory Mississippi State University Mississippi State, MS 39762-9820
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International Reviewers Stan L e b o w LaichangLi W . "Pete" Ma Shawn Mansfield Craig M c l n t y r e Paul M e r r i c k Jeffery J. M o r r e l l Richard M u r p h y Paul M o r r i s Michael Paice Ralph Paisley Andrzej Paszczynski John Palfreyman Jenine P o w e l l T. P o w e l l Kenneth G . Ross Elmer L. Schmidt O l a f Schmidt Herbert Schroeder Terry Sellers, Jr. James Shaw Thomas Shelton W . Ramsay Smith D a v i d Stanbury M i n g Tien Alex R. Valcke Terrence Wagner A n d r e w Zahora
Terry Amburgey A r i a Amirbahman Susan Anagnost Dimitris Argyropoulos H . Michael Barnes Robert Blanchette Carol Clausen D a v i d Clifford Laurie Cookson Simon Cragg Susan Diehl Dan Distel Judith E g l i n Phillip Evans M i k e Freeman John French Irving S. Goldstein Michael Hale Richard Hemingway W i l l i a m Henry Terry Highley Claudia Husseneder D . Pascal Kamdem Barbara Illman Shunji Itakura Jöran Jermer Lehong Jin Peter Laks
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