ArticleFungal biology and biotechnology2021
Extrusion-based additive manufacturing of fungal-based composite materials using the tinder fungus Fomes fomentarius.
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- Uncovering the transcriptional landscape of Fomes fomentarius during fungal-based material production through gene co-expression network analysis.Fungal biology and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Tailoring the Mechanical Properties of Fungal Mycelium Mats with Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing of PHBH and PLA Biopolymers.ACS omega · 2024Article
- Three-Dimensional Printing Using Biomass-Fungi Composite Materials: Brief Retrospective and Prospective Views.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effects of Incorporating Ionic Crosslinking on 3D Printing of Biomass-Fungi Composite Materials.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effects of Sodium Alginate and Calcium Chloride on Fungal Growth and Viability in Biomass-Fungi Composite Materials Used for 3D Printing.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- Mechanical, physical and thermal properties of composite materials produced with the basidiomycete Fomes fomentarius.Fungal biology and biotechnology · 2023Article
- Mycelium-Based Composite Graded Materials: Assessing the Effects of Time and Substrate Mixture on Mechanical Properties.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Connecting materials sciences with fungal biology: a sea of possibilities.Fungal biology and biotechnology · 2022Article
- Establishment of the basidiomycete Fomes fomentarius for the production of composite materials.Fungal biology and biotechnology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundRecent 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.
resultsThis 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 with up to 39 mm in height, a combination of freeze-drying and calcium-crosslinking processes allowed the printed shapes to remain stable even in the presence of water. The printed objects show low bulk densities of 0.12 ± 0.01 g/cm
conclusionsThis work reports for the first time the application of mycelium obtained from the tinder fungus F. fomentarius for an extrusion-based additive manufacturing approach to fabricate customized light-weight 3D objects. The process holds great promise for developing light-weight, stable, and porous fungal-based materials that could replace expanded polystyrene produced from fossil resources.
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