Once recovered, wood waste can be combined with plastics to form wood-plastic composites, which have a wide scope of potential uses. A paper published in Polymers has explored this subject. Read more here . #Polymer #Plastics #Composites #Wood #Sustainable
Functionalized Wood with Tunable Tribopolarity for Efficient Triboelectric Nanogenerators. Researchers from Switzerland have developed an energy-harvesting device that uses wooden flooring, with a combination of a silicone coating and embedded nanocrystals, to produce enough energy to power...
D ue to the global efforts to meet sustainability standards, many countries are currently looking to replace concrete with wood in buildings. France, for example, will require that all new public buildings will be made from at least 50 percent wood or other sustainable materials starting in 2022...
Piezoelectric Wood - Voltage from the Parquet. Researchers at Empa and ETH Zurich have proven it time and again: Wood is so much more than "just" a building material. Their research aims at extending the existing characteristics of wood in such a way that it is suitable for completely new...
Where Wood Gets Weird. What’s bouncy, bulletproof, cools you in the summer, keeps you toasty warm in winter and might help save our planet? The answer literally grows on (and in) trees: wood—at least in the many unfamiliar guises it takes on in the lab of materials science and engineering...
Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria are a Global Threat—Oak Surfaces Might Thwart Their Growth Wood is an old-school material and seems almost unthinkable for surfaces in a modern healthcare facility. It’s porous and has nooks and crannies where bacterial colonies hypothetically might flourish....
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