Scanning Electron Microscopy: A Practical Tool in Wood Technology

Often considered an instrument intended for use strictly by the research laboratory, the scanning electron microscope (SEM) is often over-looked as an analytical tool for elucidating or solving practical problems encountered by the industrial wood technologist or scientist. Documented applications, however, reveal this microscope to offer advantages in the study of wood anatomy, plywood manufacture, wood machining, finishing, preservation, hardboard and paper products, wood-polymer systems, charcoaling, mechanics, and pathology, The present text describes the SEM, its sample requirements, and examples of the aforementioned applications. It is hoped that the micrographs and bibliography will serve as a reference to which the reader can in some way relate and attack some of his own problems, and by doing so, perhaps prove to himself that the SEM is indeed useful in the practice and application of forest products technology.

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