They describe the material as tPB, a transparent 3D material made solely of cellulose. Testing of the material showed it worked as well as standard drinking straws, with no signs of the collapse ...

Scientists in China have turned regular old bamboo into a transparent material that’s also resistant to fire and water, and suppresses smoke. Silica glass, made from sand, is still the go-to ...

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.

Korean researchers have succeeded in developing an innovative transparent film using graphene. This development secures a new ...

A team at the University of Colorado Boulder has earned a Guinness World Record for the most transparent material ever created. The lightweight, gel-like material made mostly of air is 97% to 99% ...

Transparent materials can generate electricity when exposed to light, even if they have a vanishingly small absorption of such light. Floquet Fermi liquid states are a variant of Fermi liquids ...

Turns out, there is — transparent wood. This futuristic material is flexible, moldable, and see-through, just like traditional petroleum plastics. But rather than being derived from fossil fuels ...

The company uses carbon nanotubes (CNT) built into its materials to provide strength, flexibility and conductivity, while enabling near-transparency. Chasm also makes transparent heaters, low-carbon ...

Or a house with wooden windows? Probably not — unless you’ve heard of transparent wood. Made by modifying wood’s natural structure, this material has been proposed as a sturdy, eco-friendly plastic ...

In this review we shall focus on the femtosecond micromachining of bulk transparent materials — that is, materials that do not have any linear absorption at the wavelength of the femtosecond ...

One of those teams is led by the University of Colorado Boulder Professor of Physics Ivan Smalyukh, who, with his research group, developed “the World’s Most Transparent Material.” This material—a ...