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Fungal textiles: Wet spinning of fungal microfibers to produce monofilament yarns
University of Borås, Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business.
University of Borås, Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business.
Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden.
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2021 (English)In: Sustainable Materials and Technologies, ISSN 2214-9937, Vol. 28, article id e00256Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Abstract [en]

The cell wall of a zygomycetes fungus was successfully wet spun into monofilament yarns and demonstrated as a novel resource for production of sustainable textiles. Furthermore, the fungus could be cultivated on bread waste, an abundant food waste with large negative environmental impact if not further utilized. Rhizopus delemar was first cultivated in bread waste in a bubble column bioreactor. The fungal cell wall collected through alkali treatment of fungal biomass contained 36 and 23% glucosamine and N-acetyl glucosamine representing chitosan and chitin in the cell wall, respectively. The amino groups of chitosan were protonated by utilizing acetic or lactic acid. This resulted in the formation of a uniform hydrogel of fungal microfibers. The obtained hydrogel was wet spun into an ethanol coagulation bath to form an aggregated monofilament, which was finally dried. SEM images confirmed the alignment of fungal microfibers along the monofilament axis. The wet spun monofilaments had tensile strengths up to 69.5 MPa and Young's modulus of 4.97 GPa. This work demonstrates an environmentally benign procedure to fabricate renewable fibers from fungal cell wall cultivated on abundant food waste, which opens a window to creation of sustainable fungal textiles.

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2021. Vol. 28, article id e00256
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Chitin, Chitosan, Filamentous fungi, Zygomycetes, Wet spinning, Monofilaments
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Industrial Biotechnology
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Resource Recovery
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-25100DOI: 10.1016/j.susmat.2021.e00256ISI: 000663234300010Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85100376426OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-25100DiVA, id: diva2:1532231
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Vinnova, 2018-04093Available from: 2021-03-01 Created: 2021-03-01 Last updated: 2022-04-29Bibliographically approved

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Svensson, SofieFerreira, JorgeZamani, Akram

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