{"id":113848,"date":"2020-10-04T11:23:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T18:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/scientists-create-clear-glasslike-material-out-of-wood"},"modified":"2020-10-04T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T18:23:50","slug":"scientists-create-clear-glasslike-material-out-of-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/scientists-create-clear-glasslike-material-out-of-wood","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Create Clear, Glasslike Material Out of Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-clear-glasslike-material-out-of-wood.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a lucrative concept that has drawn the attention of researchers across the globe in recent years.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>But thanks to a new generation of futuristic building materials, those materials could be poised for a significant upgrade. A team of researchers at the USDA and several research institutions say they\u2019ve developed \u201ctransparent wood,\u201d a glass-like material made almost entirely out of trees that they claim is stronger, safer, more cost efficient and more thermally efficient than glass.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kicking Glass<\/b><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a lucrative concept that has <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/transparent-wood-cut-heating-cost\">drawn the attention<\/a> of multiple research teams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidescience.org\/news\/new-technique-improves-transparent-wood\">across the globe<\/a>, all working on similar concepts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a lucrative concept that has drawn the attention of researchers across the globe in recent years. But thanks to a new generation of futuristic building materials, those materials could be poised for a significant upgrade. A team of researchers at the USDA and several research institutions say they\u2019ve developed \u201ctransparent wood,\u201d a glass-like material [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}