We all know the extent of obsession Sweden wood and wood industries, and IKEA A good example of this! So more than 57% of the country there are covered by approximately 80 billion trees, while constitute securities products and timber greatest proportion of the country's exports.
Thus, not surprisingly, we read that Swedish researchers have succeeded in opening a new dimension of all that is wood: We have made it transparent! Imagine a world in the future based on a stronger and more alternative in order to preserve the environment from plastic or glass; we will see a healthy alternative in everything ... start from the windows to the carbonated beverage cans!
A team of scientists has succeeded in KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden Cetkholm- developed a transparent timber that can be used in building materials and assistance in providing lighting expenses in different homes and buildings, as well as the possibility of use in smart solar industry to generate electricity.
Imagine the walls of semi-transparent degree acceptable blackout while allowing entry into force of the sun's rays into the heart of our homes and lighted naturally! Dr.. Lars Bergland from Ellenberg Center for Science timber of the Royal Institute of Technology KTH (Yes, there is a research center dedicated to the wood there!) Works with his colleagues to bring this wonderful possibility.
Dr. Bergland say:
You can use wood panels in the windows transparent, semi-transparent and destinations in a manner impermeable to light while maintaining privacy at the same time. An ideal material for solar cells as well as the wood is transparent and available low-cost and renewable source.
But how do they do it?
"Resembles wood transparent higher than normal in most of the composition, only we have to disarm material lignin it chemically."
Thus explains d. Bergland.
Material lignin or lignin polymer is present in the molecular structure of the wood and prevents between 80 to 95% of the light from the force through it. Thus, scientists have worked to remove it for the first time in samples of hierarchical balsa tree, but the stuff that you get them in the beginning were not fully transparent to light scattering strongly.
"When you remove the lignin wood color turns beautifully to white. But because the wood is not transparent in its origin, we realize that some of the amendments to the nanoscale level. "Thus d adds. Bergland
So, and to allow access to light completely through the wood directly, they added methyl methacrylate acrylic or what is known to the structure of the new material. The result is a transparent timber can see through and stronger Plexiglass twice!
But is it can ignite the fire, as do natural wood?
Unfortunately more information on this point specifically are not available yet, but we promise you telling you this amazing developments in innovation while the scientists are currently testing various other types of wood and make it transparent.
Certainly, the thing here is that the face of our future can not in any way to predict what it will really be a few years later, how is a matter of a few hundred? Time will not arrive for a certificate that future introductions so, but luck was not happy to be in digital form this save our articles to be read by the people of the future and smile at the extent of our curiosity is limited!
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