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SlovenčinaScientific fields: Technical Sciences, Materials Engineering, 020507 Wood Technology and Processing
Faculty of Wood Sciences and Technology, Department of Wood Technology, Department of Wood Science, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Technologies, Department of Woodworking, Department of Furniture and Wood products
Main research focus
The members of the excellent team have been engaged in research in the field of protection technologies and targeted modification of wood with a view to improving its selected properties. The team specializes in full-volume protection of wood using pressure and pressureless impregnation methods against fungi, insects and flame retardants and in wood modification with heat, hydrothermal modification, biological modification with the intention of colour change, etc. The research is also oriented towards monitoring the influence of reaction conditions and procedures of intentional modification on the anatomical and chemical structure of wood and on changing the properties of modified wood (resistance to biological and abiotic factors, change in sorption, strength properties and colour, quality of bonding and surface treatment of the modified material). The modification methods are applied to selected non-durable wood species growing in Slovakia.
Reasons why the team can be considered top, research-based, or excellent:
Team members have a more than 190 publications in the Web of Science Core Collection database with over 1,300 citations and an H-index of 18 (2025). The team is formed in such a way that the leader and individual team members:
- belong to the experts of the Faculty of Wood Sciences and Technology of the Technical University of Zvolen in one or more areas of scientific disciplines: technology and wood processing (in the field of mechanical and mechanical-chemical wood processing, wood modification, damage and protection of wood), and wood structure and properties,
- provide education at the Faculty of Wood Sciences and Technology,
- present their scientific works in journals classified in the WoS and Scopus databases in quartiles Q1 and Q2 and have a high citation response to their works,
- build and represent a scientific school,
- cooperate with each other in the research teams of the scientific and research projects,
- have quantitatively similar performance,
- a high contribution of all members to the joint performance of the team is expected,
- have their own professional progress over time.