Can you imagine a smartphone with a wooden touchscreen? Or a house with wooden windows? Probably not—unless you've heard of ...

For centuries, humans have made use of glass in their art, tools, and technology. Despite the ubiquity of this material, ...

At the Sustainability Summit, Accelerating Circularity and Lenzing discussed circular collaborations and transparency's role ...

Researchers have found a way to make transparent wood that doesn't rely on plastics, and it could be scaled up to work in ...

Solar power has long been seen as a clean alternative to fossil fuels. But its everyday use still faces hurdles. Traditional ...

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 ...

There is already a component of wood that is transparent: cellulose. However, two other components in wood are not, which are ...

A team of researchers searching for safe, sustainable, and biodegradable alternatives to plastics presented a new type of transparent material at the American Chemical Society (ACS) spring meeting, ...

Typically, when organisations speak of supply chain transparency, they focus on the last mile: the product journey from “production to fork”, with a view to reducing energy and waste while optimising ...

Instead of attempting to improve glass itself, researchers are testing how to replace it entirely with alternative transparent materials—including chemically modified wood. “In the modern day ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A group of researchers is developing transparent woods made almost entirely of natural materials such as egg whites and rice extract mixture to use as a glass substitute on windows ...