"This new way to treat wood makes it 12 times stronger than natural wood and 10 times tougher," said Hu in 2018. "This could be a competitor to steel or even titanium alloys, it is so strong and ...

Super Wood is set to be produced in a $15 million factory backed by top construction investors, including Baruch Future Ventures, Builders VC, and Muus Climate Partners. What People Are Saying ...

What results is a material that is denser than wood that naturally comes from trees, and is much stronger. Steel, for example, has a strength of about 400 megapascals, which measure yield and ...

The result is a material that has 50% more tensile strength than steel with a strength-to-weight ratio that’s 10 times better, the company said. It’s also Class A fire rated, or highly ...

In 2018, Liangbing Hu, a materials scientist at the University of Maryland, devised a way to turn ordinary wood into a material stronger than steel. The round was led by the Grantham Foundation ...

Multiscale Mechanical Characterization of Mineral-Reinforced Wood Cell Walls. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2025; 17 (12): 18887 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c22384 ...

One of Scotland's largest companies - engineering giant Wood Group - is backing a £242m takeover approach. Aberdeen-headquartered Wood said Sidara, an engineering and consultancy based in Dubai ...

Aimee Lou Wood looked effortlessly stylish as she arrived at party hotspot Chateau Marmont in LA on Friday night. The actress, 31, cut a trendy figure in a long burgundy leather coat styled over a ...

While sustainably-grown wood can be an eco-friendly building material, its relatively low tensile strength limits its potential applications. That could soon change, however, thanks to a new self ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The wait is over for cord cutters missing their local news. WOOD TV8 launched the streaming app WOOD TV+ on Fire TV, Roku and Apple TV.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals halted the execution of David Wood on Tuesday, two days before it was scheduled to take place. The stay was in response to evidence of Wood’s innocence and various ...