COMPOSITE PRODUCTS MADE WITH LEWIS ACID CATALYZED BINDER COMPOSITIONS THAT INCLUDE TANNINS AND MULTIFUNCTIONAL ALDEHYDES

• Main Authors: WILLIAMSON, BOBBY L, JING, FENG
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 08.05.2015
• Subjects: ADHESIVE PROCESSES NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE; ADHESIVES; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; DERIVATIVES OF NATURAL MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; DYES; MANUFACTURE BY DRY PROCESSES OF ARTICLES, WITH OR WITHOUTORGANIC BINDING AGENTS, MADE FROM PARTICLES OR FIBRES CONSISTINGOF WOOD OR OTHER LIGNOCELLULOSIC OR LIKE ORGANIC MATERIAL; METALLURGY; MISCELLANEOUS APPLICATIONS OF MATERIALS; MISCELLANEOUS COMPOSITIONS; NAILING OR STAPLING MACHINES IN GENERAL; NATURAL RESINS; NON-MECHANICAL ASPECTS OF ADHESIVE PROCESSES IN GENERAL; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PAINTS; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; POLISHES; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; TRANSPORTING; USE OF MATERIALS AS ADHESIVES; WORKING OR PRESERVING WOOD OR SIMILAR MATERIAL

Composite products made with binder compositions that include one or more tannins, one or more multifunctional aldehydes, and one or more Lewis acids and methods for making same. The method can include contacting a plurality of substrates with the binder composition and at least partially curing the binder composition to produce a composite product. The one or more multifunctional aldehyde compounds can include (1) two or more carbon atoms and two or more aldehyde functional groups, or (2) two or more carbon atoms, at least one aldehyde functional group, and at least one functional group other than an aldehyde functional group. A carbon atom of at least one aldehyde functional group can have a first bond with a first tannin molecule and a second bond with (a) the first tannin molecule, (b) a second tannin molecule, or (c) an oxygen atom of the at least one aldehyde functional group.