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 ...

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 ...

It does not require synthetic materials or electrical energy to create this glowing wood, which makes it eco-friendly. The use of natural light from fungi reduces the environmental impact of ...

The UBC-developed super-black wood inherently prevents light from escaping rather than depending on black pigments. Photo credit: UBC Forestry/Ally Penders Super-black materials are increasingly ...

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 ...