Wood is an incredibly versatile material ... bottle jack to apply force to the test piece and a bathroom scale to make measurements. That setup was suboptimal, so version two used a jackscrew ...

InventWood aims to launch its strong and environmentally friendly product this summer. It’s called Superwood. Maryland-based ...

For the study, researchers used advanced tools like atomic force microscopy (AFM) to examine the wood at a very small scale, allowing them to measure properties such as stiffness and elasticity.

Researchers in China have developed a new way to make life-like artificial wood on a large scale from a polymer called resol, which is very similar to lignin (the compound found in natural wood). The ...