The result is a long piece of what looks like glass, with the strength and flexibility of wood. A researcher holds up a square of transparent wood material against a green leaf. (USDA Forest Service) ...

“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.

“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.

Wood, on the other hand, is highly insulating but it’s not transparent. Usually. In recent years, materials scientists have been experimenting with making wood transparent. Making wood see-through, ...

Transparent wood still has all the cell structures that comprised the original piece of wood. ... The new transparent wood uses theses natural channels in wood to guide the sunlight through the wood.

Transparent wood could be the next big thing in building our homes. ... porous space inside the still structurally sound pieces of wood (for their research they used silver birch wood).

If you think of wood as a material, you might describe it with many different adjectives. Sturdy, warm, flexible, maybe pretty, depending on the quality. Transparent is not usually one of them ...

Make it clear with transparent wood. That’s what [blorggg] is doing over on Hackaday.io , and it looks cool enough to have a some interesting and novel applications besides small, clear test pieces.

Making wood transparent was already reported last month by a team in Sweden, who found that it could be done by boiling pieces of wood in water, sodium hydroxide and a few other chemicals for ...

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.

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 … ...

Making sturdy, semi-transparent wood with cheap, natural materials Date: March 26, 2025 Source: American Chemical Society ... Baruah transformed pieces of balsa wood into natural, ...