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Student Poster Winners 2007
The 2007 Student Poster Competition was held on Sunday, June 10, 2007 at the Hilton Hotel, Knoxville, Tennessee.
The winners were:
First Place - $500 - Awarded to: Joseph Jakes, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
"Accounting for Edge Effects and Structural Compliances in Nanoindentation Measurements of Wood Cell Walls"
Second Place - $250 - Awarded to: Zhiyuan Lin, Virginia Tech
"Tailored cellulosic fiber surface: layer-by-layer nanocoating of polyelectrolytes and clay platelets on steam exploded wood fiber"
Third Place - $125 - Awarded to: Chris Gabrielli, Oregon State University
"Chemical Wood Modification: Dimensional Stabilization of Viscoelastic Thermal Compressed Wood"
Other Participants were:
Emmanuel Oluwatosin Adedipe, Division of Forestry and Natural Resources, Davis College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Consumer Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. 26506-6125.
Classification of red oaks (Quercus rubra) and white oaks (Quercus alba) wood using a NIR spectrometer and soft independent modeling of class analogies.
Emmanuel Oluwatosin Adedipe, Division of Forestry and Natural Resources, Davis College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Consumer Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV. 26506-6125. US.
Predicting moisture content of Yellow-Poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera L.) veneer using near infrared spectroscopy.
Richard D. Bergman, USDA, Forest Products Laboratory, One Gifford Pinchot Dr., Madison, WI 53726
Environmental Impact of Hardwood Lumber Using Life-Cycle Inventory
Xiaozhi “Jeff” Cao, Center for International Trade in Forest Products (CINTRAFOR), College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 98195
Quality vs. Price: A Positioning Analysis for US Treated Southern Yellow Pine Lumber in the Chinese Market
Qingzheng Cheng, Tennessee Forest Products Center, University of Tennessee, 2506 Jacob Dr. Knoxville, TN 37996-4570
A novel method to isolate fibrils from natural cellulose fibers by high intensity ultrasonication
Sudip Chowdhury, PhD Candidate, Department of Wood Science and Forest products, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061.
Small Specimen Wood Rheology: The Development of Torsional Methods on Wood Disks
Chris Gabrielli, Graduate Student, Fredrick A Kamke, JELD-WEN, Professor of Wood-Based Composite Science, Dept. of Wood Science and Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
Chemical Wood Modification: Dimensional Stabilization of Viscoelastic Thermal Compressed Wood
Victor Gaete-Martinez, PhD Student, School of Forest Resources, University of Maine. Stephen M. Shaler, PhD Wood Science, Professor School of Forest Resources, Associate Director AWEC Center, University of Maine, Russell Edgar, M.Sc., Wood Composites Mgr., AEWC Center, University of Maine. Orono, ME.
Improved OSB Formation Quality Through Production Process Control Using 3D Image Analysis and Laser Profilometry
Jung-Ki Hong, WBC Center Dynea Fellow, Charles E. Frazier, and Maren Roman,
Department of Wood Science and Forest Products, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
Cellulose Nanocrystal Reinforcement of Wood Adhesives
Joseph E. Jakes. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Materials Science Program,1509 University Ave, Madison, WI 53706, and USDA, Forest Products Laboratory, One Gifford Pinchot Dr., Madison, WI 53726
Accounting for Edge Effects and Structural Compliances in Nanoindentation Measurements of Wood Cell Walls
Gi Young Jeong, Diniel P. Hindman, Department of Wood Science and Forest Products, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA. 24060
Measurement of stiffness of earlywood and latewood from Loblolly pine using digital image correlation (DIC)
Grant. T. Kirker, S. V. Diehl, M. L Prewitt, T. P. Schultz, and D.D. Nicholas , Forest Products Lab, Mississippi State University, MS
Changes in community structure of mold and wood decay fungi on field stakes treated with Chlorothalonil (CTN) and Butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT).
Zhiyuan Lin, Graduate student, Department of Wood Science and Forest Products, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, VA 24060, USA
Tailored cellulosic fiber surface: layer-by-layer nanocoating of polyelectrolytes and clay platelets on steam exploded wood fiber.
Ryan H. Mills, School of Forest Resources, and Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center, University of Maine, Orono ME, 04469, USA
Designing, fabricating, and evaluating sheet molding compound reinforced with glass or natural fibers.
Guenter G. R. Modzel, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Wood Science & Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, and Frederick A. Kamke, JELD-WEN Professor of Wood-Based Composite Science, Department of Wood Science & Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331
X-Ray Tomographic Study of an Adhesive Bondline
Gloria S. Oporto, Advanced Engineered Wood Composite (AEWC) Center, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA and Centro de Investigación de Polímeros Avanzados, CIPA, Universidad de Concepción, Edmundo Larenas 234, Concepción, CHILE, Douglas J. Gardner, Advanced Engineered Wood Composite (AEWC) Center, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA, George Bernhardt, Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA, and David J. Neivandt, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, USA
Characterizing the mechanism of improved adhesion of modified wood plast composite (WPC) surfaces.
Yucheng Peng, Graduate Research Assistant, Sheldon Q. Shi, Assistant Professor, and Moon Kim, Professor, Department of Forest Products, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS. 39759
Effect of Temperature on the Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Resin Film and Wood
Karthik V. Pillai, Department of Wood Science and Forest Products, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
Self-Assembly of Lignin
Milan Simek, Department of Furniture, Design and Habitation, Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry in Brno, Czech Republic, and Eva Haviarova, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA.
Mechanical Behavior of Ready to Assemble Furniture Corner Joints (Minifix and Rondorfix)
Silas Tora, and Eva Haviarova, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
An overview of US Furniture Industry Competitiveness
Yi Wang, Department of Wood Science & Engineering, Oregon State University,
Corvallis, OR 97331
Multi-scale Characterization of Wood Plastic Composites Using Advanced Image Tools
Xinfeng Xie, Wood Science and Technology, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469
Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (MWCNTs) Produced from Natural Cellulosic Materials
Martin Claude Ngueho Yemele, Ph.D. Candidate, Centre de recherche sur le bois (CRB), Département des sciences du bois et de la forêt, Université Laval, Québec, QC Canada G1K 7P4
Effect of bark extractives on the physical and mechanical properties of particleboards made from black spruce and trembling aspen bark
Xuelian Zhang, Douglas J. Gardner, Advanced Engineered Wood Composite Center, The University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469 and Lech Muszynski, Department, of Wood Science and Engineering, Oregon State University, 119 Richardson Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331
Spray characteristics and resin efficiency of pMDI resin-adhesive using a spinning disk atomizer
Hongtao Zhou, Grad. Research Assistant, and Eva Haviarova, Assistant Prof., Dept. of Forestry & Natural Resources, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN
Wooden Adjustable Seating Furniture-Ready To Assemble
Yu Zhou, WBC Center GP Fellow. and Scott Renneckar, Department of Wood Science and Forest Products, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061
Nanoscale surface modification of wood veneer for adhesion and durability
Last updated: 7/24/07
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