Stronger than aluminum, a heavily altered wood cools passively

By John Timmer

Boiled in hydrogen peroxide and compressed, the wood can passively manage heat.

A look at the lignin-free compressed wood.

But now, a large team of US researchers has found a single solution that appears to manage everything using a sustainable material that both reflects sunlight and radiates away excess heat. The miracle material? Wood. Or a form of wood that has been treated to remove one of its two main components.

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