Morphology Study on Mycelium Textile Composite

Abstract

Composite is a material with a heterogeneous mixture of two or more homogeneous phases bonded together. Biocomposite is a cluster under composite, is made from renewable resources and has gained significant attention on a global scale. Producing a biocomposite with mycelium had been a development that had been around for a while, where it could use textile, food, or agricultural wastes for substrate and could use any type of fibre, either natural fibre or man-made fibre. Nevertheless, much other information has yet to be discovered since using mycelium as a binder was used in the 2000s. The objective of this study was to analyse the growth kinetics and morphology of the mycelium fibres when applied to the textile waste substrate as well as its physical properties.