Transparent wood that can store and release heat. A new material with “revolutionary” thermal properties to reduce energy consumption in buildings and constructions. Wood may seem more at home in log cabins than modern architecture, but a specially treated type of timber could be tomorrow's trendy building material. Today, scientists report a new kind of [...]

The last frontier in the field of thermal insulation. A new, nearly weightless insulation material can withstand extreme heat that would destroy other materials. The innovation The porous aerogel is at least 99 percent open space, with the rest made up of an atomically thin ceramic called hexagonal boron nitride. The design proves extremely durable [...]