{"id":212699,"date":"2025-04-29T01:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/engineers-fortify-wood-with-eco-friendly-nano-iron"},"modified":"2025-04-29T01:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T06:37:06","slug":"engineers-fortify-wood-with-eco-friendly-nano-iron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/engineers-fortify-wood-with-eco-friendly-nano-iron","title":{"rendered":"Engineers fortify wood with eco-friendly nano-iron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-fortify-wood-with-eco-friendly-nano-iron2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists and engineers are developing <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/high-performance+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">high-performance materials<\/a> from eco-friendly sources like plant waste. A key component, lignocellulose\u2014found in <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/wood\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">wood<\/a> and many plants\u2014can be easily collected and chemically modified to improve its properties.<\/p>\n<p>By using these kinds of chemical changes, researchers are creating <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/advanced+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">advanced materials<\/a> and new ways to design and build sustainably. With about 181.5 billion tons of wood produced globally each year, it\u2019s one of the largest renewable material sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists and engineers are developing high-performance materials from eco-friendly sources like plant waste. A key component, lignocellulose\u2014found in wood and many plants\u2014can be easily collected and chemically modified to improve its properties. By using these kinds of chemical changes, researchers are creating advanced materials and new ways to design and build sustainably. With about 181.5 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212699","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}