Warsaw: Scientists have recently discovered a completely new type of wood.
According to media reports, scientists have discovered a type of wood that can turbocharge the carbon storage capacity of trees.
This wood is found in tulip trees, which is a nanoscale wood structure between hardwood and softwood called “midwood”.
According to scientists, the structure of this wood explains why it is so effective in storing carbon.
Jan Laczakowski, a scientist at the Jagiellonian University in Poland, and his colleagues investigated the nanoscale structure of live wood samples from 33 species of trees at the Botanic Garden at the University of Cambridge in the UK.
They froze each sample in a slush nitrogen that kept the samples at minus 210 degrees Celsius.
They found that hardwood trees such as oak or birch have macrofibrils of about 15 nanometers in diameter, while softwood trees have larger macrofibrils of 25 nanometers or more in diameter.
