Wood can be replaced by transparent using rice and eggs in the windows

Windows and Smartphone screens may be built one day of transparent wooden wood with egg whites safely at the end of their lives.

Researchers are interested in using wood to make glass -decomposing alternatives with better insulation properties, or to replace plastic in electronic devices. The wood was converted into a transparent substance before by modifying or removing the organic polymearin from it and then injection of epoxy as an alternative, but this results in an irrevocable product.

now New Bahrat At Kenissao State University in Georgia, his colleagues have developed a process that replaces artificial epoxy with natural egg whites and rice extraction.

“[Previous examples of transparent wood are] “It is extremely difficult to synthesize it, it is difficult to do and spend a lot of time, energy and money to make it, and for this reason we thought about creating something we can do easily and naturally,” says Barah.

It was an inspiration for the use of egg whites by buildings in the mother’s mother’s state in India, which dates back to 1500s and the use of a cement -like mixture of sand, sticky rice and egg whites. “This was the cement in those days, and these buildings still exist,” says Baruh. “They are still there after more than four or five centuries and it was always great for me.”

The team took platelets of boys and whipped with sodium sulfur, sodium hydroxide and diluted whitening in a vacuum room to remove lignin and hemisilulose, and left only a cards -like cellulose. Then the voids in the material are filled with a mixture of rice extract and egg whites before it dries in an oven at 60 ° C (140 degrees Fahrenheit) to create a semi -transparent dish with a slight brown dye. “It is not 100 percent transparent, but it is almost transparent,” says Baro. “It is a decomposing.”

Baruh and his colleagues built a small bird of birds with a transparent wooden window such as primitive harness, and they found that he remained from 5 to 6 ° C (9 to 11 degrees Fahrenheit) more cold when exposed to a heat lamp from the same bird equipped with a glass window. The research will be presented today at the spring meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego, California.

You will search more research on strength and thermal properties of the material, as well as techniques to improve transparency.