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Scalable aesthetic transparent wood for energy efficient buildings
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Nowadays, energy-saving building materials are important for reducing indoor energy consumption by enabling better thermal insulation, promoting effective sunlight harvesting and offering comfortable indoor lighting. Here, we demonstrate a novel scalable aesthetic transparent wood (called aesthetic wood hereafter) with combined aesthetic features (e.g. intact wood patterns), excellent optical properties (an average transmittance of ~ 80% and a haze of ~ 93%), good UV-blocking ability, and low thermal conductivity (0.24 W m−1 K−1) based on a process of spatially selective delignification and epoxy infiltration. Moreover, the rapid fabrication process and mechanical robustness (a high longitudinal tensile strength of 91.95 MPa and toughness of 2.73 MJ m−3) of the aesthetic wood facilitate good scale-up capability (320 mm × 170 mm × 0.6 mm) while saving large amounts of time and energy. The aesthetic wood holds great potential in energy-efficient building applications, such as glass ceilings, rooftops, transparent decorations, and indoor panels.
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- Mi, R., Chen, C., Keplinger, T., Pei, Y., He, S., Liu, D., Li, J., Dai, J., Hitz, E., Yang, B., Burgert, I., & Hu, L.
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2020-07-31
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3836-3836
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W3046896795
- Cited by
- 336
- References
- 33
- FWCI
- 21.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- Licence
- creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (tdm)
- creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (vor)
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