Method for biofabricating composite material

A method for making a composite material comprising:

• dispersing, encapsulating, incorporating, depositing, or otherwise introducing at least one biofabricated material into or onto at least one porous, permeable, or absorptive secondary component;
• wherein the at least one biofabricated material comprises a network of non-human collagen fibrils, wherein less than 10% by weight of the collagen fibrils in the material are in the form of collagen fibers having a diameter of 5 μm or more and less than 10% by weight of the collagen fibrils are in the form of fibrils aligned for 100 μm or more of their lengths;
• wherein said material contains no more than 40% by weight water;
• and wherein said material contains at least 1% of a lubricant;
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• dispersing, encapsulating, incorporating, depositing, or otherwise introducing at least one biofabricated material into or onto at least one porous, permeable, or absorptive secondary component;
• wherein said and at least one biofabricated material comprises a network of recombinant non-human collagen fibrils, wherein the collagen contains substantially no hydroxylysine;
• wherein said material contains no more than 25% by weight water;
• and wherein said material contains at least 1% of a lubricant, wherein said lubricant is a fat, castor oil, pine oil, lanolin, mink oil, neatsfoot oil, fish oil, shea butter, aloe, cod oil, a sulfonated oil, a polymer, an organofunctional siloxane, an anionic surfactant, a cationic surfactant, a cationic polymeric surfactant, an anionic polymeric surfactant, an amphiphilic polymer, a fatty acid, a modified fatty acid, a nonionic hydrophilic polymer, a nonionic hydrophobic polymer, a polyacrylic acids, a polymethacrylic acid, an acrylic, a natural rubber, a synthetic rubber, a resin, an amphiphilic anionic polymer, an amphiphilic anionic copolymer, amphiphilic cationic polymer, amphiphilic cationic copolymer, and mixtures thereof.