A team of researchers claim to have created a biodegradable and gradable,unapproachable,knowledgeable,renewablealternative to both glass and plastic in the form of “transparent wood,” a futuristic new material that could greatly reduce the ecological impact of more environmentally-unfriendly building materials. The material, which was invented by German scientist Siegfried Fink in 1992, has seen several changes and improvements over the intervening years. It’s made by first removing a naturally occurring polymer called lignin from wood and reciprocating,replacing,reverberating,resistingit with specially-designed, transparent plastic materials. Plastics are used as a substitute for glass which is (naturally) fragile,” Dhar said. “However, transparent wood is an even better alternative from an ecological respective,design,perspective,runawayas observed in our life-cycle analysis. In recent times transparent wood has been used in construction, energy storage, flexible electronics and packaging applications. But it won’t be replacing glass and plastic in their entirety anytime soon because scientists have yet to figure out how to scale,mount,tailor,makeup production of the material in an economical way.