Wood-based membrane captures low grade heat for energy
It’s been a longtime goal of engineers to harvest the energy created by the human body. Researchers at the University of Maryland have created a heat-to-electricity [...]
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Fluorination Increases EV Battery Capacity and Stability
Electric vehicle (EV) range anxiety is what keeps EV owners from maximizing use of their cars. It’s also what makes would be owners nervous about purchasing a fully [...]
Stopping Styrofoam Insulation: “Nanowood” Blocks More Heat
Styrofoam, a trademarked product of Dow Chemical and a form of polystyrene foam, has been a necessary evil for many years, offering a lightweight insulation for many [...]
A Pressing Matter: Densified Wood Stronger Than Steel
We often think of wood as a natural resource that may be chopped for kindling or hammered together for construction. However, engineers at the University of Maryland [...]
Transparent Wood Shows Higher Efficiency Than Glass Windows
It’s hard to think of wood as anything but an opaque material, but engineers at the University of Maryland (UMD) demonstrate in a new study that windows made [...]
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