Glass might soon have some competition from an unlikely rival – bamboo. Scientists in China have turned regular old bamboo into a transparent material that’s also resistant to fire and water, and ...

Glass is an essential component of solar panels: not only does it protect the other components found in these devices, it also allows the light that generates the energy to pass through its surface.

Researchers have developed a scalable, biodegradable, transparent bamboo material enhanced with a tungsten-doped vanadium dioxide (W-VO 2) coating for energy-efficient windows. The composite achieves ...