After enlisting Ridham Raval, a Kenneshaw State undergraduate student, to help, the duo used a vacuum chamber, sodium sulfite, sodium hydroxide, and bleach to remove lignin and hemicellulose, two of ...

Together with undergraduate Ridham Raval, Baruah placed balsa wood pieces in a vacuum chamber and removed lignin and hemicellulose using a combination of chemicals that included sodium sulfite ...

Joined by Ridham Raval, an undergraduate student at the university, Baruah transformed pieces of balsa wood into natural, semi-transparent woods by pulling out the lignin and hemicellulose using a ...

The bodies were built of lightweight balsa wood, and a pusher propeller was mounted ... for new technologies and not a serial production model, so only two were built, and they were retired ...