The 3A Composite Company specialises in balsa cultivation and working with individual cooperatives to buy, process and export Balsa wood and has met ISO and other international standards. The parties ...

Bharat Baruah at Kennesaw State University in Georgia has figured out how to turn balsa wood into a futuristic building material. The most inspiring thing about it all is that the team did so ...

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To create this new material, researchers begin with sheets of lightweight balsa wood. They place these sheets in a vacuum chamber, soaking them in a combination of common chemicals like sodium ...

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 ...

report_id=bw8626 Balsa core material is a honeycomb-like structure derived from balsa wood, known for its cost-effectiveness and offering high compression, shear strength, and stiffness. Its ...

While sustainably-grown wood can be an economical and eco-friendly building material, its relatively low tensile strength limits its potential applications. That could soon change, however ...

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 ...

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 ...

Credit: Bharat Baruah. After enlisting Ridham Raval, a Kenneshaw State undergraduate student, to help, the duo used a vacuum chamber, sodium sulfite, sodium hydroxide, and bleach to remove lignin and ...

Then, a colorless material fills in those pores, also restoring some rigidity. Joined by Ridham Raval, an undergraduate student at the university, Baruah transformed pieces of balsa wood into natural, ...