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Forest Products Laboratory
One Gifford Pinchot Drive
Madison, WI 53726
Phone: (608) 231-9200
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FPL Helps Recyclable Solar Cells Take Root

The same building blocks nature uses to produce trees are now being used to enhance high-efficiency products such as photovoltaic solar cells. By producing pilot-scale quantities of cellulosic nanomaterials, the U.S. Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory (FPL) is collaborating with researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Purdue University to demonstrate the potential of cellulosic nanomaterials as a high performance, environmentally preferable material for the 21st century ...

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Organic solar cell made of wood

*Hollywood Goes Green with Help from FPL*
Partnership leads to Hollywood's first 100 percent sustainable studio set ... view »	20th Century Fox's "Raising Hope" set made with ECOR®

*Restoring America's Forests Through the Wise Use of Wood*
An Overview of FPL Research ... view »	New Publication from FPL

*Practical Advice for Using Insect-Killed Trees*
Millions of dead and dying trees in ... view »	Emerald Ash Borer

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Study Confirms Wood Vital to Green Building

Wood should factor as a primary material in green building according to a new U.S. Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory Study ...
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