Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass
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Re: Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass
#2Publication here:
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/5/eabd7342
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd7342
Re: Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass
#3Posted on HN yesterday as Solar-assisted fabrication of large-scale, patternable transparent wood:
Re: Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass
#4Nile Red did a great video on his attempts to reproduce these results:
Re: Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass
#5So it's fiberglass except it uses thin strips of bleached wood in place of the glass fiber substrate?
Also, being lighter than glass (presumably by unit volume?) is a pretty low bar. Glass is heavy. "Stronger" is so vague it's almost meaningless. Stronger under tension? Compression? Flex? Impact resistance? What?
Re: Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass
#6Nile Red did a great video on his attempts to reproduce these results: https://youtu.be/x1H-323d838
Just watching that now. Nile Red is using an older process. The process described in the article is a new method published 2 weeks ago that is much simpler and leaves most of the lignin in the final product.
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#7Hair thin anything can look transparent though. I seems to be paper thin.
As building products go, I believe rot resistant glass infused wood as a substitute for pressure treated wood is a more useful product specially in humid regions.
Re: Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass
#8Posted on HN yesterday as Solar-assisted fabrication of large-scale, patternable transparent wood : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26051883
Dang, missed that.
Re: Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass
#9Re: Scientists develop transparent wood that is stronger and lighter than glass
#10Hair thin anything can look transparent though. I seems to be paper thin. As building products go, I believe rot resistant glass infused wood as a substitute for pressure treated wood is a more useful product specially in humid regions.
even if it's not completely transparent and can not be used in a window, it could still be useful as a wall material to let some of the daylight into the house.