Promising material: a team from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces has pressed the bark of pine (Pine), birch (Birch), larch (Larch) and oak (Oak) into stable sheets.
Stable boards can be made from a waste product of the wood industry without glue. Promising material: a team from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces has pressed the bark of pine (Pine), birch (Birch), larch (Larch) and oak (Oak) into stable sheets. © cc-by 4. PLOS ONE - Tree bark may be suitable as a similarly versatile material as wood. A research team at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam has pressed tree bark into boards that have similar mechanical properties to particleboard, but do not contain any adhesive. Such boards could be used in the furniture or packaging industry, for example. In the timber industry, tree bark has so far been regarded as an inferior waste product.
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