Composite material
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10589489B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-03-17

    申请号:US15266760

    申请日:2016-09-15

    摘要: The composite material is comprised of a substrate of discrete particles and a network of interconnected mycelia cells bonding the discrete particles together. The composite material is made by inoculating a substrate of discrete particles and a nutrient material with a preselected fungus. The fungus digests the nutrient material over a period of time sufficient to grow hyphae and to allow the hyphae to form a network of interconnected mycelia cells through and around the discrete particles thereby bonding the discrete particles together to form a self-supporting composite material.

    Mycological biopolymers grown in void space tooling

    公开(公告)号:US11277979B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-22

    申请号:US14336455

    申请日:2014-07-21

    IPC分类号: A01G18/00 C12P19/26 C12N1/14

    摘要: A mycological biopolymer product consisting entirely of fungal mycelium is made by inoculating a nutritive substrate with a selected fungus in a sealed environment except for a void space, which space is subsequently filled with a network of undifferentiated fungal mycelium. The environmental conditions for producing the mycological biopolymer product, i.e. a high carbon dioxide (CO2) content (from 5% to 7% by volume) and an elevated temperature (from 85° F. to 95° F.), prevent full differentiation of the fungus into a mushroom. There are no stipe, cap, or spores produced. The biopolymer product grows into the void space of the tool, filling the space with an undifferentiated mycelium chitin-polymer, which is subsequently extracted from the substrate and dried.

    Mycological Biomaterial
    10.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180368337A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-27

    申请号:US16116453

    申请日:2018-08-29

    IPC分类号: A01G18/64

    摘要: A growth medium formed as an inoculum including a preselected fungus and a nutrient material capable of being digested by the fungus is placed in or on a tool formed of a material capable of being at least partially consumed by the fungus. The tool may define a cavity of predetermined shape for the growth medium or the tool may form a scaffolding on which the growth medium grows into the final product taking on the shape of the tool.