Transparent Wood Materials
Properties, Applications, and Fire Behaviour
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Wood is one of the most frequently used building materials. However, due to its composition, it is flammable, which causes complications when using it. Coatings are one of the options for protecting wooden str...
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This paper deals with the smoke emission from wood and wood-based products. The amount of smoke released from organic polymers (e.g. wood and wood-based materials) is commonly quantified by smoke extinction ar...
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Transparent wood is a modern bio-renewable material with great potential for both science and industrial applications. However, the fire hazard of transparent wood is still almost unexplored. This study aims t...
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Consumer devices of today are created from hazardous and non-renewable materials. Additionally, they are rigid, heavy, and produced in an energy-inefficient manner using CO2-producing processes. Also, synthetic t...
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The emergence of the concept of transparent wood has created a new frontier in wood modification, attracting academics to investigate it further and examine more functionality and production methods. In cuttin...
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Traditional energy production methods, such as burning fossil fuels, are harmful to the earth's environment, resulting in major, planet-scale issues, and climate change. As a result, renewable and green energy...
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To tackle energy and climate change challenges, renewable energy production and reduction of building energy consumption are required. To save energy, a novel material called optically transparent wood is bein...
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Due to its high optical transparency, excellent thermal insulation, and great durability, transparent wood is a desirable structural material for energy-efficient buildings, electronics, packaging, and nanotec...
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The objective of this chapter is to acquaint the reader with information about recent progress made in the field of manufacturing biocomposite material—transparent bamboo. In the past few years, there has been...
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Due to the distinctive structures that result from its natural growth, wood is a commonly utilized structural material with exceptional mechanical qualities. Different woods exhibit an incredible range of meso...
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Wood is an available and sustainable substrate which has the potential for large-scale nanotechnology functionalization. Most materials used in optical lighting applications must create a homogeneous illuminat...
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Since transparent wood has the potential to become a suitable building material, its fire characteristics also become more important. During its preparation, several components are combined. One of them is woo...
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This paper discusses the impact of low-level electrical current on the temperature of electrical cables installed in surface grooves of oriented strand board (OSB). The three-wire power electrical cable (coppe...
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Worldwide, wood-based materials are massively exploited in many industries. As a renewable material with significantly lower environmental impact compared with conventional materials is very likely that their ...