Pioneering new process creates versatile moldable wood

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2021/october/moldable-wood.html

"After extracting the lignin... and then closing the fibres via evaporation, the research team... re-swelled the wood by "shocking" it with water... forms a distinct partially open, wrinkled cell wall structure that provides space for compression as well as the ability to support high strain, allowing the material to be easily folded and molded... resulting 3D-Molded Wood is six-times stronger than the starting wood and comparable to widely used lightweight materials like aluminium alloys"

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https://techxplore.com/news/2023-01-rethinking-product-timber-industry.html