Stronger and Lighter Than Frosted Glass, Translucent Wood Reflects the Future of Construction

This is not frosted glass. It's translucent wood. Translucent wood from the lab of Dr. Liangbing Hu.Image Credit: Eran Moore Rea, American Physical Society Soon, the frosted windows that let light into your bathrooms and offices while protecting your privacy may be made out of a wood-polymer composite. The innovation comes courtesy of Dr. Liangbing Hu's University of Maryland Materials Science and Engineering lab.And that's not its only purpose. Dr. Tian Li, a post-doc in Hu's lab, says transluc...