Lavender oil as eco-friendly alternative to protect wood against termites without negative effect on wood properties

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60460709:41340/22:92379

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05959-5" target="_blank" >https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05959-5</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05959-5" target="_blank" >10.1038/s41598-022-05959-5</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Lavender oil as eco-friendly alternative to protect wood against termites without negative effect on wood properties

Original language description

Timber suffers from various biological damages. Recent efforts aim on nature-friendly sustainable technologies of wood protection to replace classical synthetic agents having usually negative impact on many non-target organisms including man. This research investigated the biocidal effectiveness of lavender oil (LO) in protecting the Norway spruce (Picea abies) wood against the termites Reticulitermes flavipes and the brown-rot fungus Rhodonia placenta. Following, selected physical characteristics of spruce wood treated with LO were evaluated: colour changes, roughness, surface wetting with water and surface free energy (SFE). Experiments showed that LO increased the resistance of spruce wood to termites nearly to the level of its treatment with commercial biocide based on trivalent boron and quaternary ammonium salt. The additional hydrophobic treatment of wood ensured its full termite-resistance even after artificial weathering in Xenotest and leaching in water according to EN 84, respectively. It

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20502 - Paper and wood

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Scientific Reports

ISSN

2045-2322

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

1-11

UT code for WoS article

000752017100003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85124060896