“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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

Researchers at the University of Maryland were able pull away color and chemicals from a block of wood to leave it impressively see-through. The result is a material that is both stronger and more ...

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 ...

Wood has three components: cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. To make it transparent, the lignin and hemicellulose are removed, leaving behind a porous, paper-like network of cellulose.

A sheet of transparent new material at a University of Maryland lab looks like it might be plastic. But it’s actually wood—and it could eventually be used to make energy-efficient windows or ...