A close-up look at the transparent wood created by Dr. Lars Berglund and co-authors (Photo Credit: KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

Wood has many great properties that make it the perfect building material — It is cheap, durable, easily available, and most importantly, environmentally sustainable. The one thing it is not, is transparent! Now thanks to a team of scientists at Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology the versatile material may even be able to add that attribute to its already impressive list.