{"id":2528,"date":"2017-02-07T10:59:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T10:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2017-02-07T10:59:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T10:59:29","slug":"the-material-of-the-future-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/2017\/02\/07\/the-material-of-the-future-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"The material of the future: wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_2528 social_share_privacy clearfix 1.6.4 locale-en_US sprite-en_US\"><\/div><div class=\"twoclick-js\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\njQuery(document).ready(function($){if($('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_2528')){$('.twoclick_social_bookmarks_post_2528').socialSharePrivacy({\"txt_help\":\"Wenn Sie diese Felder durch einen Klick aktivieren, werden Informationen an Facebook, Twitter, Flattr, Xing, t3n, LinkedIn, Pinterest oder Google eventuell ins Ausland \\u00fcbertragen und unter Umst\\u00e4nden auch dort gespeichert. N\\u00e4heres erfahren Sie durch einen Klick auf das <em>i<\\\/em>.\",\"settings_perma\":\"Dauerhaft aktivieren und Daten\\u00fcber-tragung zustimmen:\",\"info_link\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.heise.de\\\/ct\\\/artikel\\\/2-Klicks-fuer-mehr-Datenschutz-1333879.html\",\"uri\":\"https:\\\/\\\/greenfilmshooting.net\\\/blog\\\/en\\\/2017\\\/02\\\/07\\\/the-material-of-the-future-wood\\\/\",\"post_id\":2528,\"post_title_referrer_track\":\"The+material+of+the+future%3A+wood\",\"display_infobox\":\"on\"});}});\n\/* ]]> *\/<\/script><\/div><p>A young French architect unveils a groundbreaking approach to tackling climate change.<br \/>\nFor developing a patented technology to infuse wood with a bio-based monomer that makes it three times as strong, French architect and biologist Timothe\u0301e Boitouzet won the MIT Innovator Award in 2016. The product, translucent wood, is not only getting attention from the film industry but it is also promising to revolutionize the construction industry worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe construction industry is responsible for 2.5 billion tons of carbon emissions each year. This is more than is emitted by all the cars being driven on earth\u201d, Boitouzet points out. \u201cBy 2030, there will be six billion people living in cities. We will have to find new materials and new building technologies to build denser, higher cities, yet with more consideration for the environment.\u201d As a twenty-year-old architecture student in Kyoto, Japan, he developed an interest in wood as a construction material. \u201cWood was designed by nature over 420 million years ago. The design is super well done\u201d, says Boitouzet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Samples_Translucent-Kopie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2531\" src=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Samples_Translucent-Kopie-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Samples_Translucent-Kopie-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Samples_Translucent-Kopie-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Samples_Translucent-Kopie-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Samples_Translucent-Kopie-630x354.jpg 630w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Samples_Translucent-Kopie.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cWood is the only construction material that grows by itself and stores CO<span class=\"_Xbe kno-fv\"><sub>2<\/sub><\/span> in its structure.\u201d When a tree grows, it emits oxygen and it stores CO<span class=\"_Xbe kno-fv\"><sub>2<\/sub><\/span> in its cellular matrix. \u201cThis is unique because, instead of making new materials and emitting CO<span class=\"_Xbe kno-fv\"><sub>2<\/sub><\/span> in order to erect buildings, you can use wood and store CO<span class=\"_Xbe kno-fv\"><sub>2<\/sub><\/span> within buildings\u201d, says the young architect, who came to the conclusion that wood is the material of the future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But wood has four limits: \u201cIt burns, it rots, you cannot build very high with it, and wood is expensive because it has to be varnished every three years. It oxidizes with exposure to air and humidity, and it turns grey. It\u2019s difficult to maintain wood.\u201d Boitouzet decided to use a microscope to examine the material more closely. He went to Harvard to study<br \/>\nMolecular Biology and Material Science in order to focus on wood and learn how to enhance its properties.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWood consists of 60%\u201390% air. After a tree is cut down and the wood is dried, the structure becomes completely empty. As an architect, I tried to understand the structure of the material, namely, how it\u2019s made and what holds it together.\u201d Boitouzet extracted a compound called lignin from the wood and then infused the cellular matrix with a bio-based monomer. \u201cIt makes the wood super strong, stiff, and sturdy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Chemical-lab-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2532 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Chemical-lab-photo-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Chemical-lab-photo-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Chemical-lab-photo-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Chemical-lab-photo-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Chemical-lab-photo-630x419.jpg 630w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Chemical-lab-photo.jpg 1543w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Since he patented this technology in 2015, his Paris-based company Woodoo plans to develop new patents. Due to this transformative process, the wood becomes translucent. \u201cThe optical quality of this material also enables us to tackle different markets, such as the luxury furnishings and design industries.\u201d Woodoo is already getting requests from the film industry. \u201cThe material possesses desirable aesthetic qualities for set decoration because the translucent wood filters light differently.\u201d Leveraging low-grade wood, Woodoo can produce a material that is both performative and competitive. Nowadays, the wood used for set construction is typically treated with toxic chemicals in order to make it waterproof and fire resistant. \u201cOur alternative is fully sustainable and recyclable\u201d, emphasizes the inventor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Timothe\u0301e-Boitouzet_Woodoo-Kopie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2533\" src=\"http:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Timothe\u0301e-Boitouzet_Woodoo-Kopie-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Timothe\u0301e-Boitouzet_Woodoo-Kopie-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Timothe\u0301e-Boitouzet_Woodoo-Kopie-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Timothe\u0301e-Boitouzet_Woodoo-Kopie-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/greenfilmshooting.net\/blog\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/02\/Timothe\u0301e-Boitouzet_Woodoo-Kopie-630x450.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Timothe\u0301e Boitouzet says transluent wood is the construction material for the future<br \/>\n\u201cWood is one of the most ancient materials and it has been used throughout human history, but it can also be the most futuristic for the twenty-first century\u201d, concludes Boitouzet. \u201cIf the nine- teenth was the century of steel, and the twentieth of concrete, then the twenty-first will be the century of wood in the building industry and construction technologies.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young French architect unveils a groundbreaking approach to tackling climate change. For developing a patented technology to infuse wood with a bio-based monomer that makes it three times as strong, French architect and biologist Timothe\u0301e Boitouzet won the MIT Innovator Award in 2016. 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