InventWood Is About To Mass-Produce Wood That's Stronger Than Steel

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By BeauHDMay 14, 2025, 6:00 am212 pts
Longtime Slashdot reader ndsurvivor shares a report from TechCrunch: In 2018, Liangbing Hu, a materials scientist at the University of Maryland, devised a way to turn ordinary wood into a material stronger than steel. It seemed like yet another headline-grabbing discovery that wouldn't make it out of the lab.…

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