CAMBRIDGE, MA (PRWEB) May 09, 2023 Innovation was on the agenda recently at Draper when new research was presented by 17 Master’s and Ph.D. students whose
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institue of Technology said they have pioneered a tunable technique to generate wood-like plant material in a lab, which could enable someone to “grow” a wooden product like a table without needing to cut down trees and process lumber.
MIT researchers can now control the physical and mechanical properties of lab-grown plant materials. This could enable an environmentally friendly process to produce wood-like structures with specific properties, like stiffness or density, tailored to certain applications.