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Window with Transparent Wood
February 2, 2021
by Josh InventWood News

Fast Company: See-through wood could replace glass windows

InventWood Featured in Fast Company A sheet of transparent new material at a University of Maryland lab looks like it might be plastic. But it’s actually wood—and it could eventually be used to make energy-efficient windows or even see-through bu ...

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Transparent Wood Wall
December 14, 2020
by Josh InventWood News

Mankind’s Next Killer App: Wood

We need to rethink wood. It’s present and future are nothing like you can imagine. Look at the glass windowpanes in the picture above and see if you can see anything odd about it? Look closely. Those normal looking windows are actually made from wood. If ...

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Transparent Wood Windows
August 7, 2020
by Josh InventWood News

PhysOrg: Glass-like wood insulates heat, is tough, blocks UV and has wood-grain pattern

Need light but want privacy? A new type of wood that's transparent, tough, and beautiful could be the solution. This nature-inspired building material allows light to come through (at about 80%) to fill the room but the material itself is naturally hazy ...

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Infrared Image of Building With Super Cooled Coating
December 31, 2019
by Josh InventWood News

Nature: The Super-cool materials that send heat to space

InventWood Featured in Nature Last May, the Colorado team reported another material: a cooling wood, created with Liangbing Hu and Tian Li at the University of Maryland, College Park. Just like polymers, wood contains chemical bonds that emit the ...

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Delignified Wood Scientists
May 27, 2019
by Josh InventWood News

Physics World: Delignified wood could help cool down buildings

InventWood Featured in Physics World A new passive radiative “cooling wood” that reflects infrared radiation could reduce the energy costs associated with cooling buildings by between 20 and 60%. The material, which is more than eight times stron ...

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Delignified Wood Scientists
May 24, 2019
by Josh InventWood News

PhysOrg: Engineers create strong, sustainable solution for passive cooling

InventWood Featured in PhysOrg What if the wood your house was made of could save your electricity bill? In the race to save energy, using a passive cooling method that requires no electricity and is built right into your house could save even ch ...

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Tree_Stem_Micrograph
March 9, 2018
by Josh InventWood News

New Scientist: Eco-friendly nanowood is a super strong and recyclable styrofoam

InventWood Featured in NewScientist Wood is the new styrofoam. By stripping away all the filler material in wood, leaving just bare fibres, researchers have shown that the resulting “nanowood” material outperforms just about all existing insulato ...

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Mettlewood Compared To Wood
February 9, 2018
by Josh InventWood News

New Super Wood Beats Metals in Feats of Strength

InventWood Featured in Smithsonian Magazine There are novel technologies that can turn the cellulose from soft woods, like pine, into high-value, high-performance building materials using many of the same processes used by paper mills. One company doing ...

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  • Fast Company: See-through wood could replace glass windows
  • Mankind’s Next Killer App: Wood
  • PhysOrg: Glass-like wood insulates heat, is tough, blocks UV and has wood-grain pattern
  • Nature: The Super-cool materials that send heat to space
  • Physics World: Delignified wood could help cool down buildings

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