Spruce wood is used for many purposes, ranging from general construction work and crates to highly specialized uses in wooden aircraft. The Wright brothers' first aircraft, the Flyer , was built ...

Organosolv pretreatment represents one of the most promising biomass valorization strategies for renewable carbon-based products; meanwhile, there is an overall lack of holistic approach to how ...

Aqueous extraction of hemicelluloses from spruce sapwood was investigated with a new cascade reactor setup, which was developed for intensified investigation of solid−liquid dissolution kinetics. The ...

History of building blocks from wood to LEGO: Building lives through blocks The earliest known building blocks were introduced in the 18th century by educationalist Friedrich Fröbel.