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"Self-densified" wood could give metal a run for its money thanks to a new self-densifying technique for creating super-strong wood.
While sustainably-grown wood can be an economical and eco-friendly building material, its relatively low tensile strength limits its potential applications. That could soon change, however, thanks to a new self-densifying technique for creating super-strong wood.
While sustainably-grown wood can be an economical and eco-friendly building material, its relatively low tensile strength limits its potential applications. This mixture forms the wall of what is essentially a long hollow tube – the fiber – which runs lengthwise within the larger piece of wood. This diagram illustrates the differences between the self-densified wood (top right) as compared to traditional compressed wood (bottom left)National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures & Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Artificial Functional Materials & Department of Materials Science and Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China, yfchen@nju.edu.cn
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