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General: Provide graduate students with knowledge on the importance of wood modification as a novel edge of wood protection science. Specific: -To understand the effect of thermal modification on the main properties of wood; - To know other current industrial processes for wood modification.

Modifying the properties of wood; Thermal modification of wood: processes and their variables; chemical changes; physical changes; biological properties of thermally modified wood; Impact of thermal modification on other wood properties; Other processes of wood modification.

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