An investigation of thermochemical changes in Canadian hardwood species during wood welding

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Funding Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Le Fonds Quebecois de la Recherche sur la Nature et les Technologies (FQRNT) for a research grant (T. Stevanovic) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and FPInnovations for a scholarship (B. Belleville). Thanks are extended to the Centre de Recherche Industrielle du Quebec for technical support. We also wish to express our thanks to Alain Adnot, Universite Laval, for his contribution to the XPS analysis, to Florian Prost, SEREX, for his support in GC/TCD-FID analysis and to Yves Bedard, Universite Laval, for his assistance with the laboratory work.