Abstract: The present invention includes a new type of bait for wood-targeting pest baiting systems and methods of obtaining the bait. Certain embodiments of the present invention include a blue-stained wood either treated with a solution that includes blue-stain fungi or wood naturally infected with blue-stain fungi. Additional embodiments of the present invention include a blue-stained solution that may be applied to a wood substrate or to a non-wood bait matrix.

Abstract: The present invention includes a new type of bait for wood-targeting pest baiting systems and methods of obtaining the bait. Certain embodiments of the present invention include a blue-stained wood either treated with a solution that includes blue-stain fungi or wood naturally infected with blue-stain fungi. Additional embodiments of the present invention include a blue-stained solution that may be applied to a wood substrate or to a non-wood bait matrix.

Abstract: The present invention includes a new type of bait for wood-targeting pest baiting systems and methods of obtaining the bait. Certain embodiments of the present invention include a blue-stained wood either treated with a solution that includes blue-stain fungi or wood naturally infected with blue-stain fungi. Additional embodiments of the present invention include a blue-stained solution that may be applied to a wood substrate or to a non-wood bait matrix.

Abstract: This invention relates to a nonleachable waterborne wood preservative composition that combines one or more resin acids, mostly or fully in the carboxylate anion form, with one or more organic biocides to enhance the efficacy of relatively high-cost organic biocides. Resin acids are cost effective and environmentally safe, and therefore can be used as a low-cost and environmentally-benign additive to help protect wood against wood-destroying fungi. Furthermore, wood treated with a waterborne resin acid formulation will have enhanced water repellency, which will result in better dimensional stability for wood exposed to water. This invention also provides a method for the use of the described composition.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method to extract terpenoids in aquatic environments by using a hydrophobic absorbent, thus reducing or eliminating off-flavor in water and aquaculture products which is caused by cyanobacteria-produced terpenoids.

Abstract: A method and process for treating wood. The steps include preparing isocyanate-based reactive prepolymer resins for impregnation, impregnating wood with these impregnation resins, curing the impregnated wood at elevated temperatures, preparing isocyanate resin-based coating materials and applying these coating materials on the cured impregnated wood and curing the coatings at room or elevated temperatures. The resulting treated wood has substantially improved de-contaminability of the chemical warfare agent VX both initially and after long exposure to degradation effects from sunlight.

Abstract: This invention relates to a method to extract terpenoids in aquatic environments by using a hydrophobic absorbent, thus reducing or eliminating off-flavor in water and aquaculture products which is caused by cyanobacteria-produced terpenoids.

Abstract: A method and process for treating wood. The steps include preparing isocyanate-based reactive prepolymer resins for impregnation, impregnating wood with these impregnation resins, curing the impregnated wood at elevated temperatures, preparing isocyanate resin-based coating materials and applying these coating materials on the cured impregnated wood and curing the coatings at room or elevated temperatures.

Abstract: A wood preservative composition comprising at least one biocide, such as an iodopropargyl compound or a triazole compound, in combination with at least one antioxidant, such as a hindered phenol, a flavonoid compound, or a naturally occurring polyphenol derived from a woody plant, is useful as a cost-effective and environmentally safe wood preservative. The invention also provides a method for the use of such composition and compositions so treated.

Abstract: A wood preservative composition comprising a biocide such as a quaternary ammonium compound, e.g., didecyl-dimethyl ammonium chloride (DDAC), an isothiazolone or an isophthalonitrile, in combination with an antioxidant, e.g., a flavone or a phenol, is useful as a cost-effective and environmentally safe wood preservative. The invention also provides a method for the use of such composition and compositions so treated.

Abstract: A wood preservative composition comprising a biocide such as a quaternary ammonium compound, e.g., didecyldimethyl ammonium chloride (DDAC), an isothiazolone or an isophthalonitrile, in combination with an antioxidant, which is a flavone or a phenol, is useful as a cost-effective and environmentally safe wood preservative. The invention also provides a method for the use of such composition and compositions so treated.

Abstract: The invention is directed to synergistic biocidal compositions that combine copper salt and an organic biocide selected from the group of tribromophenol, its salts and chelates, and sodium-omadine, its salts and chelates. Wood treated with the preservative compositions have improved fungi resistance.

Abstract: The invention is directed to synergistic biocidal compositions that combine a copper salt and an organic biocide selected from the group of tribromophenol, its salts and chelates, and sodium-omadine, its salts and chelates. Wood treated with the preservative compositions have improved fungi resistance.