{"id":711,"date":"2014-03-25T20:16:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T01:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=711"},"modified":"2014-04-02T11:49:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T16:49:43","slug":"engineering-wood-fibers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/engineering-wood-fibers\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering wood fibers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A close-up photos of the cells within a Douglas Fir tree. (Credit: Environmental Protection Agency, Wikimedia Commons<\/a>).<\/p><\/div>\n

Wood is a popular and cheap building material, but it swells and shrinks with moisture, limiting its potential. A new study by materials scientists and mechanical engineers shows that most of the swelling and shrinking is limited to the cell walls.\u00a0The complex nanostructure of wood actually prevents it from expanding even more than it already does. By chemically modifying the cell walls, other scientists could create new forms of treated wood that are even more resistant to moisture damage.<\/p>\n

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Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the\u00a0Journal of the Royal Society Interface<\/em>\u00a0on\u00a0March 25, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Names and affiliations of selected<\/strong>\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Ahmad Rafsanjani<\/a>, McGill University<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wood is a popular and cheap building material, but it swells and shrinks with moisture, limiting its potential. A new study by materials scientists and mechanical engineers shows that most of the swelling and shrinking is limited to the cell walls.\u00a0The complex nanostructure of wood actually prevents it from expanding even more than it already […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[215,849],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-environment","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/800px-MAGNIFICATION_OF_PHLOEM_OR_XYLEM_TUBES_IN_DOUGLAS_FIR_WOOD_TAKEN_THROUGH_A_MICROSCOPE_IN_NEW_WESTMINSTER_BRITISH..._-_NARA_-_555171.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-bt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}