Optically Transparent Wood: Recent Progress, Opportunities, and Challenges

By Yuanyuan Li, E. Vasileva, I. Sychugov, S. Popov, L. Berglund. 2018

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Transparent wood is an emerging load‐bearing material reinvented from natural wood scaffolds with added light management functionalities. Such material shows promising properties for buildings and related structural applications, including its renewable and abundant origin, interesting optical properties, outstanding mechanical performance, low density, low thermal conductivity, and great potential for multifunctionalization. In this study, a detailed summary of recent progress on the transparent wood research topic is presented. Remaining questions and challenges related to transparent wood preparation, optical property measurements, and transparent wood modification and applications are discussed.

Subfields: Biomaterials, Mechanical Engineering, Surfaces, Coatings and Films

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