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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 ...

Windows could be made from transparent, renewable 'wood', according to Swedish researchers. A team from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have created what they describe as ...

Wood consists of three main components: cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. But if you remove the latter two parts from a sheet of wood, what’s left is a paperlike, porous web of cellulose.

Since wood is an affordable, sustainable resource—at least when properly managed—creating a transparent version of the already popular building material could be revolutionary.

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 ...

Scientists have figured out a way to make wood transparent, and turn it into a window. ... The see-through-wood window — compared to glass — is cooler (according to its creators), ...

The advantage of transparent wood over something like glass is that it has all the strength of opaque lumber–but still lets in light. Berglund’s process, then, could be used to create ...

The breakthrough could lead to new materials for windows, and is even strong enough to use in cars. To create the transparent wood, researchers chemically removed lignin from wood.

Transparent wood could one day replace glass in windows. A process for turning it see-through also gives it heat-retaining powers, which could help regulate the temperature of buildings. Céline ...

Transparent wood that is ‘lighter and stronger than glass’ could create energy-saving windows ‘It can be potentially used to make a see-through house,’ researchers say ...

Transparent wood is the most recent novel development that could replace conventional glass or plastic windows. While glass and plastics are transparent and can be made to provide structural support, ...