We’ve talked about transparent wood before. However, the process can be difficult to get just right. [NileRed] recently posted a video with very detailed instructions on how he’s doing it ...

The block of wood is then covered with epoxy, making it four to five times stronger and transparent. However, the technique makes the wood less environmentally-friendly.

So leave it to Swedish researchers to figure out a whole new use for all that wood: they’ve made it transparent. In the future, this emerging material could be used as a stronger, more ...

Transparent wood, made by stripping organic polymers and replacing them with a mixture of egg whites and rice extract, could be used as windows and smartphone screens ...

Optically Transparent Wood from a Nanoporous Cellulosic Template: Combining Functional and Structural Performance. Biomacromolecules, 2016; DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.6b00145 ...

From afar, the white table looks like translucent glass; only up close does the wood grain lurch into view. The black table, on the other hand, could almost pass for wood at first glace.

Lars Berglund, professor at Wallenberg Wood Science Center, and his colleagues developed the transparent wood alternative by altering commercial balsa wood. The team removed lignin from samples ...

Scientists create TRANSPARENT wood: Revolutionary material could replace glass in windows, claim researchers Transparent wood could be used for windows or semi-transparent facades This would let ...

Transparent wood: Eco-friendly alternative one of most ‘promising replacements’ for plastic The amount of single-use plastic that is currently used and then wasted globally amounts to over 400 ...

Standard glass windows like these could one day be replaced by wood Transparent wood just got even better, moving us a step closer to windows that are far better insulators than traditional glass ...