Comment on Why scientists are making transparent wood
Killing_Spark@feddit.de 6 months agoYeah and no. I guess if you call anything that’s long chains of Carbonhydroxyd chains a plastic yes. But taking wood as the basis material instead of fossil oil is a difference
EmoBean@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No, it’s literally filled with plastic, regular ass ball cancer plastic. There using the same method Nile red does. Just using the processed cellulose as a scaffold for epoxy.
annualreviews.org/…/annurev-matsci-010622-105440
Killing_Spark@feddit.de 6 months ago
Ignore my dumbass that ignored the fact that the epoxy is, of course, just another plastic. You’re completely right!