GREEN ISLAND, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ecovative, the leading mycelium technology company, and ECCO Leather, a part of the Danish footwear brand ECCO and a world leader in innovative and premium ...

The UK’s PLP Architects is focused on creating a greener future by collaborating with nature, developing a fungus-based modular block that is renewable and biodegradable, and has the potential to ...

Talk about sustainability in Pro AV. Now, there is research being done on how mushrooms can meet specific requirements for speaker construction. Well, mushroom mycelium to be precise. The renewable ...

Fungi are almost everywhere - in the air you breathe, the soil you walk on, we eat them and yes, they do also live inside of us. For industrial biotechnology, fungi like yeast are commonly used ...

Fungi are considered a promising source of biodegradable materials. Researchers have developed a new material based on a fungal mycelium and its own extracellular matrix. This gives the biomaterial ...

Sustainably produced, biodegradable materials are an important focus of modern materials science. However, when working with natural materials such as cellulose, lignin or chitin, researchers face a ...

In 1907, electric power was spreading in the United States. Leo Baekerland, a chemist, was looking for a synthetic substitute for shellac. He invented Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic. It ...

While the material is mushroom-based, MycoWorks creates its rigid patented material by engineering mycelium cells as they grow into 3-D structures that intertwine themselves so densely, it makes a ...

Fed on straw, sawdust, cardboard, and leftover coffee grounds, root-like mycelium networks knit scraps into lightweight foams, boards, and fabrics that are beginning to challenge traditional plastics, ...

The thin mycelial film is almost transparent and has good tensile strength. It could be used as a living bioplastic. Sustainably produced, biodegradable materials are an important focus of modern ...

Mycelium is the vegetative body of filamentous fungi. It consists of a dense three-dimensional network of microscopic tubes called hyphae that branch, fuse, and weave through organic substrates. As ...