Transparent wood for weather resistance

Transparent wood is a sustainable material. This material is promising material becomes one of the selections of transparent building materials. Transparent wood is made by natural wood with synthesis process. Wood is a renewable and earth-abundant resource. Fabrication transparent wood is removed lignin in wood and replaced by a similar refractive index polymer. The fabricated transparent wood with high transmittance and enhanced mechanical properties is a potential material for light-transmitting building materials, magnetic materials and transparent solar cell windows. Cells in the wood are mainly composed of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. The hierarchical structure and the strong interactions among cellulose, hemicelluloses, and lignin lead to excellent mechanical properties in wood. Cellulose and hemicelluloses are optically colorless, lignin cause by complex structure is opaque with dark color. Lignin provides high hardness and rigidity to the wood. The wood sample will be washed and immerse in acid then followed by a heat treatment. The properties of transparent wood such as strengthless, flexibility, light transmittance, roughness, thermal resistance and chemical resistance was measured. Transparent wood is a potential material for several sector like building material and solar cell material. Transparent wood can be one of new enable selection sustainable material for some sector.