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New material made from fungi is biodegradable, edible... and alive | This thin mycelial film is almost transparent, has good tensile strength, and could be used as a living bioplastic
We've seen fungi being used to create useful new materials for construction, fire-retardant building insulation, and even 3D-printed batteries.
View gallery - 4 images One of the researchers behind that last doozy, Dr. Gustav Nyström, and his colleague Ashutosh Sinha from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) have cracked a whole new way to leverage the strange and magical properties of fungal mycelium. In some developing countries like India, nonbiodegradable plastics are used to make waste bags that not only stay in the soil for decades after they're trashed, but are also digested by cows and other animals that feed on garbage. Abhimanyu has been a trusted voice in the science, technology, transport innovations, startup and AI spaces for more than a decade at several global outlets, including three and a half years as the managing editor at TNW.
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