Tunable Fungal Monofilaments from Food Waste for Textile ApplicationsShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: Global Challenges, E-ISSN 2056-6646, Vol. 8, no 3, article id 2300098Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
A fungal biorefinery is presented to valorize food waste to fungal monofilaments with tunable properties for different textile applications. Rhizopus delemar is successfully grown on bread waste and the fibrous cell wall is isolated. A spinnable hydrogel is produced from cell wall by protonation of amino groups of chitosan followed by homogenization and concentration. Fungal hydrogel is wet spun to form fungal monofilaments which underwent post-treatments to tune the properties. The highest tensile strength of untreated monofilaments is 65 MPa (and 4% elongation at break). The overall highest tensile strength of 140.9 MPa, is achieved by water post-treatment. Moreover, post-treatment with 3% glycerol resulted in the highest elongation % at break, i.e., 14%. The uniformity of the monofilaments also increased after the post-treatments. The obtained monofilaments are compared with commercial fibers using Ashby's plots and potential applications are discussed. The wet spun monofilaments are located in the category of natural fibers in Ashby's plots. After water and glycerol treatments, the properties shifted toward metals and elastomers, respectively. The compatibility of the monofilaments with human skin cells is supported by a biocompatibility assay. These findings demonstrate fungal monofilaments with tunable properties fitting a wide range of sustainable textiles applications.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
John Wiley & Sons, 2024. Vol. 8, no 3, article id 2300098
Keywords [en]
food waste, fungal textiles, hydrogel, tunable material, wet-spinning
National Category
Other Industrial Biotechnology
Research subject
Wood and Bionanocomposites
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-101638DOI: 10.1002/gch2.202300098ISI: 001066479100001PubMedID: 38486927Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85171286785OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-101638DiVA, id: diva2:1804408
Funder
Vinnova, 2018-04093Bio4Energy
Note
Validerad;2024;Nivå 2;2024-04-04 (signyg);
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