Journal of Textile Science & Engineering

Department of Textile Science and Technology, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials, Gallen, Switzerland

Publications

• Mini Review   
  Alternatives for Fungal Textiles Made from Bread Waste that have the Properties of Leather
  Author(s): Bernd Nowack*
  
  Two of the most pressing environmental issues on a global scale are food waste and fashion industry pollution. The feasibility of producing an alternative textile material with leather-like properties from fungal biomass cultivated on bread waste was investigated in order to alleviate the issues posed by food waste and contribute to sustainable fashion. In a submerged cultivation method, the filamentous fungus Rhizopus delemar was successfully grown on waste bread, and the fungal biomass was treated with chestnut wood's vegetable tannin. OM, SEM, and AFM showed how the tannin treatment affected the hyphae, while NMR and FTIR demonstrated that tannin interacts with fungal biomass. TGA analysis was used to measure thermal stability. Sheets of hyphae were prepared using the wet-laid method commonly used for papermaking. As a posttreatment, glycerol and/or a biobas.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2165-8064.2022.12.508

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