“The results are amazing, that a piece of wood can be as strong as glass,” says Hu, who highlighted the features of transparent wood in the 2023 Annual Review of Materials Research.

See-through wood has a number of interesting properties that researchers hope to exploit. CREDIT: WILEY‐VCH VERLAG GMBH & CO. KGAA, WEINHEIM / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 ...

According to Berglund and lead scientist Liangbing Hu at UM, millimeter-thick sheets of transparent wood allow 80% to 90% of light through. However, this light transmittance starts dropping the ...

Transparent wood could soon make its way into touch screens, skyscraper windows, ... and when the tree is harvested and the moisture evaporates, pockets of air are left behind.

Transparent wood can store and release heat Date: April 3, 2019 Source: American Chemical Society Summary: Wood may seem more at home in log cabins than modern architecture, but a specially ...

Transparent wood is also sturdier than traditional wood, and can be used in place of less environmentally friendly materials, such as plastics. Wood “conducts” heat along the channels that were used ...

Chemically treated wood makes it able to store heat and become transparent. American Chemical Society With Earth Day taking place this week there's a strong focus on how to build homes that leave ...

"Transparent wood as a material can replace the environmentally harmful petroleum-based plastics such as polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), acrylic, polyethylene, etc.," Prodyut Dhar, an ...

Transparent wood is the most recent novel development that could replace conventional glass or plastic windows. While glass and plastics are transparent and can be made to provide structural support, ...

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