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Plastic. That’s plastic
Yeah and no. I guess if you call anything that’s long chains of Carbonhydroxyd chains a plastic yes. But taking wood as the basis material instead of fossil oil is a difference
Edit: well if you think just a little more than I did right there: the epoxy is of course also a plastic.
No, it’s literally filled with plastic, regular ass ball cancer plastic. They’re using the same method Nile red does. Just using the processed cellulose as a scaffold for epoxy. DNSE and MMA for optical wood, PEG and MMA for thermal wood.
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-matsci-010622-105440
Ignore my dumbass that ignored the fact that the epoxy is, of course, just another plastic. You’re completely right!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The materials scientist, who works at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden, specializes in polymer composites and was interested in creating a more robust alternative to transparent plastic.
“I truly believe this material has a promising future,” says Qiliang Fu, a wood nanotechnologist at Nanjing Forestry University in China who worked in Berglund’s lab as a graduate student.
To create see-through wood, scientists first need to modify or get rid of the glue, called lignin, that holds the cell bundles together and provides trunks and branches with most of their earthy brown hues.
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 slim profile and strength of the material means it could be a great alternative to products made from thin, easily shattered cuts of plastic or glass, such as display screens.
But most research has centered on transparent wood as an architectural feature, with windows a particularly promising use, says Prodyut Dhar, a biochemical engineer at the Indian Institute of Technology Varanasi.
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