Engineered Wood: Sustainable Technologies and Applications

Natural wood has been used for construction, fuel, and furniture thousands of years because its versatility, renewability, aesthetic appeal. However, new opportunities are arising as researchers have developed ways to tune the material's optical, thermal, mechanical, ionic transport properties by chemically physically modifying wood's naturally porous structure chemical composition. Such modifications can be produce sustainable, functional materials various emerging applications such automobiles, energy storage, environmental remediation. In this review, we highlight recent advancements in engineered sustainable technologies, including thermal light management, remediation, nanofluidics, batteries, structural with high strength-to-weight ratios. Additionally, current challenges, opportunities, future research discussed, providing a guideline further development next-generation, wood-based materials.