The invention discloses a preparation method and application of self-healing wood, and belongs to the technical field of
wood processing. The preparation method of the self-healing wood comprises the following steps: firstly, synthesizing a
polymer containing a steric hindrance
urea bond, taking hydroxyl-terminated
polymer dihydric
alcohol, diisocyanate and N, N '-di-tert-butylethylenediamine as raw materials, and carrying out prepolymerization, chain extension and
grafting to obtain the self-healing wood; secondly, delignification treatment is conducted on the wood twice, specifically, the wood is treated with a
sodium sulfite /
sodium hydroxide solution at the temperature of 80-100 DEG C for 4-8 hours and then treated with a
hydrogen peroxide solution at the temperature of 70-90 DEG C for 4-8 hours; and then the wood is subjected to vacuum impregnation with a
polymer for 8-24 h, curing is conducted at the temperature of 70-90 DEG C, hot-pressing reinforcement is conducted at the temperature of 80-100 DEG C and the pressure of 10-20 MPa, and the self-healing wood is obtained. Through reaction of
isocyanate groups on large-steric-hindrance
urea bonds and hydroxyl groups on
cellulose, medium-temperature efficient repairing is achieved, the
compressive strength can be restored to the original wood standard level, the strength improving effect is achieved, and the method is suitable for the fields of wood repairing and bearing wood components.