Wednesday 3 April 2019

Transparent wood can store and release heat

Wood may seem more at home in log cabins than modern architecture, but a specially treated type of timber could be tomorrow’s trendy building material. Today, scientists report a new kind of transparent wood that not only transmits light, but also absorbs and releases heat, potentially saving on energy costs.

from Engineering and Construction News – ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190403080512.htm



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