Director Jason Trembly, a mechanical engineering professor, leads the team examining coal as a replacement for wood in plastic composites — building materials made from a combination of wood ...

“Transparent wood as a material can replace the environmentally harmful petroleum-based plastics, such as polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), acrylic and polyethylene,” said Prodyut ...

Planks of tropical ipê wood that were torn asunder by last ... and the city has since shifted towards concrete and plastic building materials. Many municipalities and consumers are making a ...

In pursuit of plastic ... to ask how a material was produced before declaring it sustainable. Wood is a limited resource, but faster-growing trees and plants can make building materials that ...

This new material is far more sustainable than the widely-used plastic polyethylene. Shutterstock In order to make transparent wood, scientists usually dissolve and replace lignin with another ...

In many cases, the new material could replace plastic packaging and certain building materials ... such as plastics, wood derivatives or rubber. This is achieved in the most productive way ...

The world is having to confront the toxic results of our love affair with plastic. Could nature ... as they search for more sustainable building materials that are still cost-effective and aesthetic.

This patent is for plastics replacement technology to “scale up” manufacturing meant to replace existing building materials [including all kinds of petroleum plastics and PLA based bioplastics ...

Dear Pablo: I am building a deck and am ... When you mix an industrial material (plastic) that is recyclable with a biological materials (wood) that is compostable you get a material that is ...

created the see-through wood by removing the lignin and replacing it with epoxy. The material could potentially be used to replace glass and plastic in applications like car windshields, transparent ...