{"id":202457,"date":"2024-12-26T11:50:37","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T17:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/transparent-bamboo-a-fireproof-and-waterproof-alternative-to-glass"},"modified":"2024-12-26T11:50:37","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T17:50:37","slug":"transparent-bamboo-a-fireproof-and-waterproof-alternative-to-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/transparent-bamboo-a-fireproof-and-waterproof-alternative-to-glass","title":{"rendered":"Transparent bamboo: A fireproof and waterproof alternative to glass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/transparent-bamboo-a-fireproof-and-waterproof-alternative-to-glass2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Glass might soon have some competition from an unlikely rival \u2013 bamboo. Scientists in China have turned regular old bamboo into a transparent material that\u2019s also resistant to fire and water, and suppresses smoke.<\/p>\n<p>Silica glass, made from sand, is still the go-to building material when you need something transparent but strong, like windows. But it\u2019s not particularly sustainable, and can be heavy and brittle.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/wood-transparent-light\/43390\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">Transparent wood<\/a> has actually been muscling in on <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/transparent-wood\/42560\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">glass\u2019s turf<\/a> for a few years now. Scientists chemically remove the lignin from the wood fibers, then treat the remaining material with plexiglass or epoxy. The end result is a material that\u2019s transparent, renewable, and as strong as or stronger than glass, while being lighter and a <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/transparent-wooden-windows-cooler\/44943\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">better thermal insulator<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glass might soon have some competition from an unlikely rival \u2013 bamboo. Scientists in China have turned regular old bamboo into a transparent material that\u2019s also resistant to fire and water, and suppresses smoke. Silica glass, made from sand, is still the go-to building material when you need something transparent but strong, like windows. But [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202457","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}