Made by modifying wood's natural structure, this material has been proposed as a sturdy, eco-friendly plastic alternative. But wood's biodegradability is often sacrificed in the process. Researchers ...

It looks like a tube made of glass but it’s actually aluminum. Well, aluminum with an asterisk beside it — this is not elemental aluminum but rather a material made using it. We got ont… ...

What if wood became a high-tech material? Researchers have developed a semi-transparent version, combining strength and ...

Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have for the first time 3D-printed transparent glass at room temperature. This new 3D printing method can make flat lenses in just ...

Unlike normal glass, which reflects some of the incoming light, the new so-called metamaterial --composed of a grid of gold or silver nanocoils embedded in a prism-shaped, glass-like material ...

My major complaint about glass? It just isn’t transparent enough. And not just because I don’t clean my windows enough. I mean, think about it: you can still see reflections in it. You call ...

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The researchers say the new glass-like material kept a room six degrees cooler than the ambient air during tests. It’s also self-cleaning, thanks to a surface full of tiny little pyramids, which ...

Berglund hopes the material will one day be used in eco-friendly solar cells, as a readily available and renewable alternative to glass. The material does have its limitations, however.

A new coating for glass developed by Rice University researchers and collaborators could help reduce energy bills, especially ...

In PMMM, 73% of the light that passes through is instantly diffused by a huge number of silicon micropyramids, so the other side of the material is opaque like frosted glass.

A recent study published in Nature Communications discussed the development of host-guest molecular recognition motifs between methyl-β-cyclodextrin and para-hydroxybenzoic acid for fabricating ...