CNN News: 蘑菇——新的生物材料

10 Second Trivia. Where would you be most likely to find mycelium in massive filaments? In granite, on a CT scanner, on body armor, or in fungi. Vegetative part of a fungus is called mycelium.

10秒瑣事。你最可能在哪里找到菌絲在巨大的長絲?在花崗巖上，在CT掃描儀上，在防彈衣上，或者在真菌上。真菌的營養(yǎng)部分叫做菌絲。

A growing number of artists, furniture makers and even clothiers are using mushrooms to make stuff and a big provider of the material for this is a New York based company called Ecovative. It’s a biomaterials organization that’s received millions of dollars in grant money from the U.S. government in addition to private funds from private investors. Its worked on everything from building materials to packaging all based on using part of the mushroom. When it comes to shipping materials, its not always the perfect substitute for Styrofoam or other plastics. Ecovative’s original mycelium foam could be more expensive so use than traditional materials for light weight packages. But its makers say it is better for the environment and its changing the way people think about mushrooms.

越來越多的藝術(shù)家，家具制造商，甚至是服裝制造商都在使用蘑菇來制作材料，而這種材料的主要供應(yīng)商是一家總部位于紐約的公司Ecovative。這是一個生物材料組織，除了從私人投資者那里獲得的私人基金，它還從美國政府那里獲得了數(shù)百萬美元的撥款。它的工作從建筑材料到包裝所有基于使用部分蘑菇。說到運(yùn)輸材料，它并不總是泡沫塑料或其他塑料的完美替代品。Eovative的原始菌絲體泡沫可能比傳統(tǒng)的輕質(zhì)包裝材料更昂貴。但它的生產(chǎn)商表示，這對環(huán)境更好，也改變了人們對蘑菇的看法。