日本發明超薄透明紙

Recently the Yomiuri News on-line reported the following:

王子ホールディングス（ＨＤ）は１８日、極めて細くした植物繊維を原料に使って「透明な紙」を作るのに成功したと発表した。

　タブレット型多機能端末の画面に活用することができて、「電子新聞を丸めてポケットに入れる」（同社幹部）ことも可能になるという。通常の紙と同様、軽量で、何重にも折りたたむこともできる。

　髪の毛の２万分の１程度に細くした植物繊維「セルロースナノファイバー」を、特殊な技術を使ってシート状にした。ガラス繊維などで作る同様の商品に比べて割れにくく、再利用できるなどのメリットがある。３年後をめどに商品化を目指している。

（2013年3月18日21時15分 読売新聞）

 

(試譯文)

Prince Holdings (HD) announced on the 18th that they had succeeded in using very fine vegetable fiber materials to make "transparent paper".

It was possible that it could be flexibly used for the screen of the multifunction terminal type tablets, (the company's management) made reference to it as creating a possibility that "an electronic newspaper is wrapped into a pocket". Like the ordinary paper, it was lightweight and could also be folded many times.

The vegetable fiber "cellulose nanofiber" was as small as up to about 1/20,000 of a hair and was made into the shape of a sheet, using some special technology. Compared with the goods similarly made from glass fiber etc. it had the merit of being difficult to break and able to be reused. Its commercialization was aimed at within the limit of three-year from now.

It is a new invention. In future the manufacturing of i-pad and i-phone etc. would probably be benefited from this new technology.