Back-to-the-future process yields 'miracle wood'
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 - 12:03
in Earth & Climate
A back-to-the-future technology, first used more than 100 years ago, has put a new form of wood on the market a veritable "miracle wood" that resists the moisture-induced bowing, swelling, cupping, shrinking and cracking that have been downsides of natural wood for thousands of years. The new "acetylated wood" is the topic of a story in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN).