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ArticleSmall (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2025

Green Nanotechnology of Cell Wall Swelling for Nanostructured Transparent Wood of High Optical Performance.

Hui Chen, Jonas Garemark, Lengwan Li, Mathias Nero, Maximilian Ritter, Ocean Cheung, Tom Willhammar, Ilya Sychugov, Yuanyuan Li, Lars A Berglund

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Article in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Ultra-Low Intensity Continuous Wave Laser Ablation Propulsion With Graphene-Engineered Wood.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Hui ChenWallenberg Wood Science Center, Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 100 44, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8181-8493
Jonas GaremarkWood Materials Science, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich, 8093, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1029-6912
Lengwan LiWallenberg Wood Science Center, Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 100 44, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2168-4504
Mathias NeroDepartment of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 106 91, Sweden.
Maximilian RitterWood Materials Science, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich, 8093, Switzerland.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5368-2007
Ocean CheungÅngströmlaboratoriet, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Uppsala University, Uppsala, 751 03, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4072-4324
Tom WillhammarDepartment of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, Stockholm, 106 91, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6120-1218
Ilya SychugovDepartment of Applied Physics, School of Engineering Sciences, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 114 19, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2562-0540
Yuanyuan LiWallenberg Wood Science Center, Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 100 44, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1591-5815
Lars A BerglundWallenberg Wood Science Center, Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, 100 44, Sweden.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5818-2378

Funding

Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse 2021.0311Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas 2022-01231Vetenskapsrådet 2023-04830
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transparent wood composites provide new functionalities through active additives distributed at the nanoscale. Scalable nanotechnology includes processing where nanoparticles and molecules are brought into the dense wood cell wall. A novel cell wall swelling step through green chemistry is therefore investigated. Sub-zero centigrade NaOH treatment provides extensive cell wall swelling. Cell wall accessibility is vastly increased so that chemicals can readily impregnate the nanostructured cell wall. Transparent wood with a thickness of up to 15 mm can therefore be fabricated. The optical transmittance and the attenuation coefficient are improved since the polymer is distributed inside the cell wall as a matrix for the nanoscale cellulose fibrils. The proposed technology paves the way for scalable wood nanoengineering.

Indexed as

accessibilitycell wall swellinglarge‐scale wood delignificationsub‐zero NaOH treatmenttransparent wood composites

Identifiers

PMID39690791
PMCPMC11798347

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