Self-supporting composite material made with mycelia cells and method of making same
AssigneeEcovative Design LLC
InventorsEben Bayer, Gavin McIntyre
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Abstract
The composite material is comprised of a substrate of discrete particles and a network of interconnected mycelia cells bonding the discrete particles together. The composite material forms a core to which one or more boards of veneer material are bonded to form a panel.
Claims2
A self-supporting composite material comprising a plurality of layers of engineered substrate wherein each said layer including a plurality of discrete particles and said mycelia cells extend through and around said plurality of discrete particles to bond said particles together into a coherent whole, and a network of interconnected mycelia cells extending through and bonding said layers together.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.