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, ...

A few months ago, we looked at the work of material scientists who had managed to make a block of linden wood see-through. Altering the molecular makeup to turn timber transparent is an impressive bit ...

Engineers demonstrate in a new study that windows made of transparent wood could provide more even and consistent natural lighting and better energy efficiency than glass. Engineers at the A. James ...

Windows and solar panels in the future could be made from one of the best — and cheapest — construction materials known: wood. Researchers have developed a new transparent wood material that's ...

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The Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) at the U.S. Department of Agriculture has developed a transparent wood that it's calling the "window of tomorrow." In collaboration with the Univeristy of Maryland ...

Creating transparent wood is primarily initiated through soaking its entire body to a chemical compound used in making toothpaste and bleach, the sodium chlorite.The compound will get rid of lignin, ...

Glass windows may soon be a thing of the past. Researchers from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have developed a transparent wood material that could change the way we construct ...

Transparent wood just got even better, moving us a step closer to windows that are far better insulators than traditional glass ones. The standard process for making wood transparent typically ...

Thirty years ago, a botanist in Germany had a simple wish: to see the inner workings of woody plants without dissecting them. By bleaching away the pigments in plant cells, Siegfried Fink managed to ...

Windows and smartphone screens may one day be constructed from transparent wood laced with egg whites and safely composted at the end of their life. Now Bharat Baruah at Kennesaw State University in ...