Extrusion-based additive manufacturing of fungal-based composite materials using the tinder fungus Fomes fomentarius.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent efforts in fungal biotechnology aim to develop new concepts and technologies that convert renewable plant biomass into innovative biomaterials. Hereby, plant substrates become metabolized by filamentous fungi to transform them into new fungal-based materials. Current research is thus focused on both understanding and optimizing the biology and genetics underlying filamentous fungal growth and on the development of new technologies to produce customized fungal-based materials.

Results

This manuscript reports the production of stable pastes, composed of Fomes fomentarius mycelium, alginate and water with 71 wt.% mycelium in the solid content, for additive manufacturing of fungal-based composite materials. After printing complex shapes, such as hollow stars wi

SUBMITTER: Chen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8693477 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature