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-throu ...
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 woo ...
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 ...
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 emi ...
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 ...
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 ev ...
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 ins ...
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 ...
