InventWood is about to mass produce wood that’s stronger than steel

Sounds like science fiction items, but it really comes from a laboratory in Maryland.

In 2018, a material scientist at the University of Maryland was Liangbing Hu Made a way turn ordinary tree becomes a stronger material than steel. Seemed to seemed to seize another title that could not be able to get out of the laboratory.

“All this people came to him,” he said. Rabitwood“He,” he is amazing, but I’m a university professor. I don’t know what to do about it. “

Instead of giving up, HU clears technology, reducing the time to make the material from more than a few hours than a few hours. Soon it was ready to combine, and he licensed the technology for the invention of the invention.

Now the first part of the beginning of the beginning will begin this summer.

“Currently, this is the first type of commercial factory – it is a smaller plant – we are aimed at skin practices,” he said. “Finally, we want to reach the bones of the building. Ninety percent of the carbon effect in buildings is concrete and steel in the construction of the building.”

To create a plant, the invention tree earned $ 15 million in the first hour in a row. The Baruch of the Round Grantham was implemented with the participation of future institutions, builders and muus climatic partners, the company told Techcrunch.

The super tree product of the inventor begins regularly with two combinations, cellulose and ligns. The goal is to strengthen the cellulose in the wood. “Cellulose is really stronger than carbon fiber.”

The company treated it with the “food industry” chemicals to change the league in the tree, and then compresses the result to increase hydrogen ties between cellulose molecules.

“You can squeeze the material with 4x and think:” Oh, there are four times stronger fiber because it will be strong four times. “However, according to all these additional bonds, this is really like 10 times stronger due to additional ties,” he said.

The result is a material with a 50% more intense power of steel, which is better than a power than a power that is better than a force. He also evaluated a fever or the flame is very durable and decay and resistant. Some polymer can be stabilized for open use such as siding, deck or roofing. Lau said the first products of the invention will be facade materials for commercial and high-level residential buildings.

The compression of the material also concentrates. “If you end this rich, with something like tropical hard trees,” he said.

As a result, the invention tree plans to use wood chips to create any size structural beams that do not need to end. “Think of the I-Rays look like this,” said Lau, the sample of Superwood. “Walnuts are beautiful like iPe. These are natural colors. We don’t spot any of it.”