The go-to materials for building home furniture, décor and floors are composite wood products that come in large sheets. But the glues and resins holding together particleboard, fiberboard and plywood ...

While we may think of wood as being earthy and natural, wooden materials such as plywood and particleboard typically contain formaldehyde-based adhesives that give off toxic fumes. Such is not the ...

Writing in Nature, Yang et al. 1 describe a remarkable strategy for making a wood adhesive from lignin — the extraordinary polymer that strengthens and binds together plant cells. Lignin waste streams ...