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The fractionation increased the reactivity of lignin, however the as-prepared lignin-based PF (LPF) hardly met its application requirements as an adhesive. Therefore, the phenolation of lignin under an acidic condition was adopted to further improve its reactivity. The phenolated lignin was characterized by FTIR, gel permeation chromatography, and NMR, indicating its active sites increased while its molecular weight decreased. The phenolated lignin was used to replace 40 wt% of phenol to prepare a PF adhesive (PLPF) which was further employed to prepare plywood. The results indicated that the combination of fractionation and phenolation effectively enhanced the reactivity of lignin, and eventually improved the properties of the PLPF and its corresponding plywood. The free formaldehyde content of PLPF decreased to 0.16%. The wet bonding strength of the as-prepared plywood increased to 1.36 MPa, while the emission of formaldehyde decreased to 0.31 mL\/L.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/polym12081825","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,14]],"date-time":"2020-08-14T08:28:35Z","timestamp":1597393715000},"page":"1825","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":43,"title":["Improving the Reactivity of Sugarcane Bagasse Kraft Lignin by a Combination of Fractionation and Phenolation for Phenol\u2013Formaldehyde Adhesive Applications"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2480-4631","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Bin","family":"Luo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China"},{"name":"Guangxi Key Laboratory of Clean Pulp &amp; Papermaking and Pollution Control, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhuan","family":"Jia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China"},{"name":"Guangxi Key Laboratory of Clean Pulp &amp; Papermaking and Pollution Control, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hongrui","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shuangfei","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China"},{"name":"Guangxi Key Laboratory of Clean Pulp &amp; Papermaking and Pollution Control, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0842-1355","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Douyong","family":"Min","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China"},{"name":"Guangxi Key Laboratory of Clean Pulp &amp; Papermaking and Pollution Control, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2901","DOI":"10.1002\/1097-4628(20000923)77:13<2901::AID-APP12>3.0.CO;2-F","article-title":"Preparation and properties of phenolated corn bran (CB)\/phenol\/formaldehyde cocondensed resin","volume":"77","author":"Lee","year":"2000","journal-title":"J. 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