Article in Science Daily talks about treating wood to make it
as tough as steel.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180207151829.htm

Dean Hoffman wrote:

Article in Science Daily talks about treating wood to make it
as tough as steel.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180207151829.htm

That was a great find and a very interesting article. I will try and
find the original article in the Journal Nature.

The article raises all kinds of questions.

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Wood is more than 5 times as strong cross grain as with grain. I wonder if they've accounted for that. If they even balanced it out equally in both directions that would be a huge advantage for some applications.

On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:04:42 -0800 (PST), TimR
wrote:

Wood is more than 5 times as strong cross grain as with grain. I wonder if they've accounted for that. If they even balanced it out equally in both directions that would be a huge advantage for some applications.

If they can stabilize pulp wood against rot and make it as strong as
Ipe without the weight, you would really have something.