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06/19/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Nano-sized cellulose fibers beat spider silk in being the strongest material on Earth

What is the strongest material on Earth? If you answered “spider silk,” you have just named the former champion, now demoted to second place. In a study published in ACS Nano, researchers reported that new nanoscale cellulose fibers have become the Superman of building materials. Many of our scientific advances pale in comparison to what nature has developed and […]

03/20/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Engineers have discovered a way to increase the density of wood, improving its mechanical performance as a structural material

A new pre-treatment process developed by Maryland engineers can produce extremely dense wood with more than 10 times the strength, toughness, ballistic resistance, and dimensional stability of normal wood. The developers claim the specific strength of their processed wood variant exceeds that of most structural metals and titanium alloys while being cheaper than carbon fiber. […]

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