This is a relaunch. Here's their launch video from May 2024.[1]
The video has some CG of a piece of their wood, plus stock shots of trees, cities, wind turbines, people looking through microscopes, etc.
U. of Maryland announced this specific process back in 2018.[2] They got a paper into Nature.[3]
Densified wood is over a century old. [4] You can buy something called "Lignostone".[5] But that is a material where they took the lignin out and put some plastic in. (Remember "transparent wood" from a few years ago. Same concept, with a transparent plastic.)
This new process takes the lignin out and compresses the cell structure.
If you could send in $20 and get a little cube of the stuff to look at and test, this would be more convincing.
U. of Maryland announced this specific process back in 2018.[2] They got a paper into Nature.[3]
Densified wood is over a century old. [4] You can buy something called "Lignostone".[5] But that is a material where they took the lignin out and put some plastic in. (Remember "transparent wood" from a few years ago. Same concept, with a transparent plastic.) This new process takes the lignin out and compresses the cell structure.
If you could send in $20 and get a little cube of the stuff to look at and test, this would be more convincing.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiHABi97rU8
[2] https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/new-densified-wood-...
[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25476
[4] https://jwoodscience.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s1008...
[5] https://www.roechling.com/us/industrial/lignostone