Boron in Wood Preservation: A Review in its Physico-Chemical Aspects

a review is presented on the application of boron chemicals for the purpose of wood preservation that covers about the past 20 years and mostly the papers published in the journals of the wood science field. topics developed here include the physical phenomena associated with the impregnation of wood with boron-chemical solutions, the issue of preventing leaching and/or fixing boron in wood to lengthen the effect of treatments and/or enable the application of wood and wood products in biodeterioration hazardous conditions, and the chemical and physical effects on wood of a combination of heat and boron treatments. finally, as an essential condition for research aiming at developing more environment friendly and less risky methods for preserving wood with boron chemicals in a efficient way, a survey is made on boron chemistry pertinent to wood preservation.