The researchers made transparent aluminum oxide (TAlOx) by applying microdroplets of acidic solution onto ordinary aluminum and applying a controlled electric current. CREDIT: Budlayan et al., 2025 ...

Salt crystals can be created by slowly evaporating saturated salt water. It seems very simple and easy when you hear about it, but in order to create crystals with high transparency, it is necessary ...

Stronger than plastic and tougher than glass, the resin-filled material is being exploited for smartphone screens, insulated windows and more. By Jude Coleman / Knowable Magazine Published Dec 14, ...

This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine. Thirty years ago, a botanist in Germany had a simple wish: to see the inner workings of woody plants without dissecting them. By bleaching ...

Can you imagine having a smartphone with a wooden touchscreen? Or a house with wooden windows? Probably not -- unless you've heard of transparent wood. Made by modifying wood's natural structure, this ...

An intense x-ray beam can make iron foil transparent for just an instant, allowing ultrashort x-ray pulses to pass through ...

I'm usually better at problem-adding than problem-solving, so here are some others... FTA: transparent wood came out around three times stronger than transparent ...

A few years ago I tried making transparent wood and it kind of worked. The pieces that I made were somewhat okay, but I was ...