Fatemeh Hassani Khorshidi¹, Saeed Kazemi Najafi¹, Farhood Najafi^2,*, Antonio Pizzi^3,*, Dick Sandberg⁴, Rabi Behrooz¹

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.12, No.2, pp. 305-323, 2024, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2023.043953

Abstract The purpose of this research study was to investigate the properties of polyurethane coatings based on lignin nano-particles. For this purpose, the prepared coatings were applied to pine wood surfaces and weathered artificially. Subsequently, color and gloss of the coatings were measured before and after the weathering test. Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) micrographs prepared from the coatings showed that the average size of nano-particles in the polyurethane substrate was approximately 500 nm. Nuclear magnetic resonance (¹³C-NMR) spectroscopy showed that strong urethane bonds were formed in the nano-lignin-based polyurethane. Differential calorimetric analysis (DSC) test revealed that the glass-transition temperature… More > Graphic Abstract

Zhaoyang Yu¹, Jinbo Hu^1,2,*, Yuan Liu^1,*, Shanshan Chang¹, Ting Li², Gonggang Liu¹, Qiongtao Huang³, Jianying Yuan⁴

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.10, No.5, pp. 1365-1379, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2022.018255

Abstract Color, whiteness and glossiness of four caesalpiniaceae wood species were characterized by quantitative measurements and image analysis, i.e., which were respectively Berlinia bracteosa Benth., Monopetalanthus heitzii Pellegr., Distemonanthus benthamianus and Erythrophleum ivorense A. Chev. The color of four wood species was evaluated to be consistent by the CIELab and CIE1931 color system. The boards of B. bracteosa, M. heitzii and E. ivorense was divided into dark color. The wood color of B. bracteosa had the highest red to green hue, while the wood appearance of D. benthamianus had the brightest and yellowest color within the four wood species. The whiteness… More > Graphic Abstract

Alper Aytekin^1,*, Hikmet Yazıcı²

Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.9, No.8, pp. 1485-1501, 2021, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2021.015768

Abstract The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of heat treatment on decorative properties including glossiness, color coordinates including lightness (L), blue-yellow (b*) and red-green (a*), hardness (shore-D) morphological characterization and thermal properties of some exotic wood species. Heat treatment of anigre (Aningeria altissima), cedrorana (Cedrelinga catenaeformis), cemara (Casuarina sumatrana) and coronilla (Scutia buxifolia) wood materials were performed in an oven with a programmable controller at 210°C for 3 h. The obtained samples were conditioned in a climate cabin and the decorative properties, morphological characterization with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and thermal properties with thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA) of… More > Graphic Abstract

ALEJANDRA L. ESTEBENET^✝, PABLO R. MARTÍN, SILVANA BURELA

BIOCELL, Vol.30, Suppl.S, pp. 329-335, 2006

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E. KOCH¹, B.C. WINIK², A. CASTRO-VAZQUEZ^1,3,*

BIOCELL, Vol.33, No.1, pp. 49-65, 2009, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2009.33.049

Abstract Development of Pomacea canaliculata from the gastrula stage until the first day after hatching is described. Trochophore embryos are developed after gastrulation, showing the prototroch as a crown of ciliated orange-brownish cells. However, no true veliger embryos are formed, since the prototroch does not fully develop into a velum. Afterward, the connection between the fore- and midgut is permeated and the midgut becomes full of the pink-reddish albumen, which is stored into a central archenteron’s lake, from where it is accumulated into the large cells forming the midgut wall (“giant cells”). Electron microscopy of giant cells in late embryos showed… More >

EDUARDO KOCH^1,2, ISRAEL A. VEGA^1,3,4, ALFREDO CASTRO-VAZQUEZ^1,3,4

BIOCELL, Vol.41, No.2-3, pp. 59-62, 2017, DOI:10.32604/biocell.2017.41.059

Abstract The digestive gland of the apple snail Pomacea canaliculata lodges two types of pigmented corpuscles (identified as C and K corpuscles) which has been proposed as endosymbiont/s. Both corpuscular types are always present in the digestive gland of adult snails, they are released into the tubuloacinar lumen and are later expelled in the feces. On their part, hatchlings lack any C or K corpuscles in the digestive gland as well as in their feces, whereas C corpuscles appear in both the gland and feces within one week after hatching. Hence, it is possible that the detritivorous hatchlings acquire the putative… More >