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When a project requires wood, balsa wood is a go-to for a reason; it's lightweight, easy to work with, and affordable. It's also considered relatively strong for its weight, but that doesn't mean it's ...

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Together with undergraduate Ridham Raval, Baruah placed balsa wood pieces in a vacuum chamber and removed lignin and hemicellulose using a combination of chemicals that included sodium sulfite ...

But if you remove the latter two parts from a sheet of wood, what’s left is a paperlike, porous web of cellulose. To do this, Baruah and their undergraduate assistant Ridham Raval placed balsa ...

Windows and smartphone screens may one day be constructed from transparent wood laced with egg whites and safely composted at the end of their life. Now Bharat Baruah at Kennesaw State University ...

Joined by Ridham Raval, an undergraduate student at the university, Baruah transformed pieces of balsa wood into natural, semi-transparent woods by pulling out the lignin and hemicellulose using a ...

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After testing various wood types, Schwarze found balsa wood to be able to hold on to its stiffness and compressive strength after being exposed to the fungus. Through spectroscopy, a scientific ...

The team observed how it snuck into the balsa wood samples by degrading lignin, but that the remaining cellulose was enough to keep the balsa wood strong. Blending the fungus and wood in this way ...