Fungus could be the future of more sustainable design.
. It has the remarkable ability to yield a wide range of materials with different properties — from soft and spongelike to tough and woody. By studying the architecture of the mushroom, researchers hope to pave the way for it to become a more sustainable building block of our lives.
“When something that beautiful starts to form, nature just doesn’t do it because of how nice it is — there must be a function there” “We were really amazed with the structure because one thing that you immediately notice if you’re a biologist is that when something that beautiful starts to form, nature just doesn’t do it because of how nice it is — there must be a function there,” says Pezhman Mohammadi, one of the authors of the new paper and a senior scientist at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.might look like a horse’s hoof growing out of a tree trunk.
What’s unique about this fungus is that it has three layers with distinct properties that could each be useful in different ways. There’s a very tough outer crust that could be used to make impact-resistant coating for windshields, for example. Then, according to Mohammadi, there’s a soft middle layer that feels good on the skin and could replicate leather. The third inner layer is similar to wood.
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