Orlando Rojas at the University of British Columbia along with his colleagues have devised a process to turn recycled wood into a material that is five times stronger than steel.
Wood is indispensable for sustaining human civilization, homes, doors, tables and boats; all are made out of wood and without finding a way to reduce the deforestation that using wood causes, we can’t become a climate-friendly civilization.
Upon being treated with this process, natural glue-like substances in cell walls are dissolved and cellulose nanofibrils, which are tiny fibers also found in the plant cell walls are exposed, the finished material doesn't look like wood but in tests, it proved to be stronger than steel and titanium alloys.
“We get a mechanical strength that supersedes the strength of the original material. It works because we use the inherent properties of cellulose, which is a material that binds together very strongly by something called hydrogen bonding,” says Rojas.
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