A team from Empa is creating luminous wood by using honey fungus, which glows thanks to a natural bioluminescence process.

Credit: Empa/Cover Images Swiss researchers have developed a new kind of wood that glows in the dark. Scientists at Empa's ...

The scientists from Empa’s Cellulose & Wood Materials lab in Switzerland were inspired by bioluminescent plants, enclosing ...

The enzyme reaction that facilitates the bioluminescence is triggered when the biohybrid fungus-wood is exposed to air, fully ...

The team hopes that the biohybrid wood could be used to create building materials that double as sustainable light sources.

Wood samples treated with the honey fungus Desarmillaria tabescens glow green in the dark. As Swiss forests increasingly ...

First, different species of trees provide different amounts of heat. Wood is made up of air and wood fiber, or cellulose. Since the cellulose burns, but not the air, look for the heaviest or densest ...

The global nitrocellulose market was valued at $0.8 billion in 2019, and is projected to reach $1.2 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 5.5% from 2020 to 2027. Nitrocellulose is a mixture of nitric ...