Novel Mycelium-Based Biocomposites (MBB) as Building Materials

Zimele, Zinta; Irbe, Ilze; Grīniņš, Juris; Bikovens, Oskars; Verovkins, Anrijs; Bajāre, Diāna

doi:10.32604/jrm.2020.09646

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“…The species type, substrate type, and manufacturing methods play a great role in the quality of mycelium-based materials [ 64 , 68 , 69 ]. However, the effect of fungal species on final material properties is more dominant than the effect of substrate type [ 33 ].…”

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Mycelium-Based Composite: The Future Sustainable Biomaterial

Alemu

Tafesse

Mondal

2022

International Journal of Biomaterials

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Because of the alarming rate of human population growth, technological improvement should be needed to save the environment from pollution. The practice of business as usual on material production is not creating a circular economy. The circular economy refers to an economic model whose objective is to produce goods and services sustainably, by limiting the consumption and waste of resources (raw materials, water, and energy). Fungal-based composites are the recently implemented technology that fulfills the concept of the circular economy. It is made with the complex of fungi mycelium and organic substrates by using fungal mycelium as natural adhesive materials. The quality of the composite depends on both types of fungi and substrate. To ensure the physicochemical property of the fabricated composite, mycelium morphology, bimolecular content, density, compressive strength, thermal stability, and hydrophobicity were determined. This composite is proven to be used for different applications such as packaging, architectural designs, walls, and insulation. It also has unique features in terms of low cost, low emission, and recyclable.

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Mycelium-Based Composite: The Future Sustainable Biomaterial

Alemu

Tafesse

Mondal

2022

International Journal of Biomaterials

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“…Fungal mycelium bonding is another very new and unusual concept that has been tested and presented for bonding wood panel composites. These new mycelium-based biocomposites (MBBs) were obtained from local agricultural (hemp shives) and forestry (wood chips) byproducts which were bonded together with natural growth of fungal mycelium [125]. As a result, hemp mycocomposites (HMCs) and wood mycocomposites (WMCs) were manufactured and their mechanical, water absorption, and biodegradation properties determined.…”

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Wood Composites and Their Polymer Binders

2020

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This review presents first, rather succinctly, what are the important points to look out for when preparing good wood composites, the main types of wood composites manufactured industrially, and the mainly oil-derived wood composite adhesives and binders that dominate and have been dominating this industry. Also briefly described are the most characteristic biosourced, renewable-derived adhesives that are actively researched as substitutes. For all these adhesives, synthetic and biosourced, the reviews expose the considerable progresses which have occurred relatively recently, with a host of new approaches and ideas having been proposed and tested, some even implemented, but with even many more already appearing on the horizon.

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“…At least 92 research papers have been published on mycelium-based composites (72 original articles [ 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60 , 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 68 , 69 ,…”

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Mycelium-Based Composites in Art, Architecture, and Interior Design: A Review

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Mycelium-based composites (MBCs) have attracted growing attention due to their role in the development of eco-design methods. We concurrently analysed scientific publications, patent documents, and results of our own feasibility studies to identify the current design issues and technologies used. A literature inquiry in scientific and patent databases (WoS, Scopus, The Lens, Google Patents) pointed to 92 scientific publications and 212 patent documents. As a part of our own technological experiments, we have created several prototype products used in architectural interior design. Following the synthesis, these sources of knowledge can be concluded: 1. MBCs are inexpensive in production, ecological, and offer a high artistic value. Their weaknesses are insufficient load capacity, unfavourable water affinity, and unknown reliability. 2. The scientific literature shows that the material parameters of MBCs can be adjusted to certain needs, but there are almost infinite combinations: properties of the input biomaterials, characteristics of the fungi species, and possible parameters during the growth and subsequent processing of the MBCs. 3. The patent documents show the need for development: an effective method to increase the density and the search for technologies to obtain a more homogeneous internal structure of the composite material. 4. Our own experiments with the production of various everyday objects indicate that some disadvantages of MBCs can be considered advantages. Such an unexpected advantage is the interesting surface texture resulting from the natural inhomogeneity of the internal structure of MBCs, which can be controlled to some extent.

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Novel Mycelium-Based Biocomposites (MBB) as Building Materials

Cited by 39 publications

References 13 publications

Mycelium-Based Composite: The Future Sustainable Biomaterial

Mycelium-Based Composite: The Future Sustainable Biomaterial

Wood Composites and Their Polymer Binders

Mycelium-Based Composites in Art, Architecture, and Interior Design: A Review

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