Why scientists are making transparent wood

Image caption: See-through wood has a number of interesting properties that researchers hope to exploit. Image credit: Wiley‐VCH Verlag GMBH & Co. KGAA, Weinheim / CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Article by Jude Coleman. Popular Science – December 14, 2023. This article was originally published in Knowable Magazine.

Thirty years ago, a botanist in Germany had a simple wish: to see the inner workings of woody plants without dissecting them. By bleaching away the pigments in plant cells, Siegfried Fink managed to create transparent wood, and he published his technique in a niche wood technology journal. […]

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