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 ...

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 ...

Lignin is a glue-like material that bonds the fibres ... which give the wood its brown colour and prevent light from passing through. Early attempts to make transparent wood involved removing ...

An engineered transparent wood that can trap heat and then release it when needed could be the next trendy building material. The new kind of wood not only transmits light, but is also able to ...

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 ...

a major component of wood. Room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) is when a material absorbs energy with a short wavelength (such as UV light) and then emits it as visible light. This contrasts ...

They’re experimenting with combining conventional light wood frame buildings with a newer wood material–the Cross Laminated Timber, or CLT, as Global Construction Review reports. By combining ...

The channels in the wood direct visible light straight through the material, but the cell structure that still remains bounces the light around just a little bit, a property called haze.

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 ...

Scientists regularly turn to nature for inspiration in their pursuit of next-generation materials, and a team of engineers studying the porous microstructures of bone and wood has come up with a ...