Researchers looking to craft construction materials that are more environment-friendly have come up with bricks made of mushrooms and windows built with transparent wood. The …
Researchers looking to craft construction materials that are more environment-friendly have come up with bricks made of mushrooms and windows built with transparent wood.Separately, researchers from the University of Maryland came up with a new process to make transparent wood harder than glass.
Mushroom bricks like the one in the image above rely on the mycelium network that mushrooms are made of, combined with biodegradable materials that allow the fungi to grow. Once enough mycelium-based material is obtained, it can be cooked into a brick that might be as light as wood. But the mushroom brick in the following experiment seems to be just as hard as concrete. It’s also great at protecting chocolate against a blow torch, though it can catch fire in the process.
The manufacturing of transparent wood, on the other hand, seems more advanced. Scientists from the University of Maryland were able to come up with a process to create an alternative to glass.the process, which alters a structural component of wood called lignin that would otherwise block the light from passing through:
The resulting piece of wood isn’t just transparent. It’s lighter and stronger than glass, plus it’s a better insulator.
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