The “blackest” black is a material developed by MIT in 2019 that captures at least 99.995 percent of any incoming light. The structure of the super-black wood, named Nxylon, inherently ...

Scientists have come up with a way to turn a block of linden wood transparent, winding up with a material that could find use in everything from cars to advanced light-based electronics systems.

Another solution was then infused into the wood that filled the empty spaces with semiconductor nanoparticles called quantum dots that glow in response to UV light. The material was then ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia leveraged an unusual discovery into ultra-black material ... to the wood itself that causes it to swallow up at least 99% of incoming light.

Filling the air pockets with a substance like epoxy resin that bends light to a similar degree to the cell walls renders the wood transparent. The material the scientists worked with is thin ...

But that could all be changing in light of recent code changes related to the use of wooden building materials in larger buildings. A series of revisions to the International Building Code advise that ...

graphite-like carbon material. In aNature Communications paper published last year, they demonstrated the use of this laser-induced graphitized wood to make touch sensors that control light ...

While no building is truly fireproof, construction materials and systems can make a building fire ... Many of these advances have changed and improved wood construction's acceptance by building codes ...

"Artificially produced composite materials of this kind would ... It is difficult to find luminescent wood in nature because ubiquitous artificial light sources at night make it difficult to ...