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01 / MYCOLEATHER

Growing material to shape

These hand-shaped cultures are part of the Mycoleather work. Mycelium grows over the support and follows its contours. The photographs show the material during cultivation.

White mycelial growth covers a hand-shaped support inside a red-lit laboratory chamber.
Mycelial growth following the contours of a hand-shaped form.
Several hand-shaped cultivation forms mounted inside a laboratory chamber.
Hand-shaped forms in the cultivation chamber.
Three-panel image showing a thermal-camera view and two visible-light views of hand-shaped cultures.
Thermal and visible-light views of hand-shaped cultures.

The Mycoponics paper describes three-dimensional mycelium prototypes. Thermal images here document a laboratory observation; material performance requires separate testing.

02 / CULTURES

Growth, fruiting and droplets

The same cultivation approach gives us a close view of fungal growth. These images show mushroom formation, the shape of the mycelium and droplets on its surface.

Grey mushroom caps and smaller developing mushrooms growing from a white cylindrical culture.
Mushroom formation on a cylindrical culture.
White fungal growth suspended inside a clear lidded culture vessel with condensation.
A suspended culture inside its vessel.
Close-up of white mycelial tissue covered with clear and pale golden droplets.
Droplets across the growing surface.
White irregular mycelial growth with large translucent and pale golden droplets.
A close view of surface growth and droplets.
Fine white fungal growth visible behind droplets on the wall of a culture vessel.
Fine mycelial growth seen through the vessel wall.
Three suspended cylindrical supports with different visible patterns of white mycelial growth and droplets.
Mycelial growth on suspended cylindrical supports.
A clear lidded culture vessel with a blue feed fitting and tubing, containing white branched fungal growth.
A culture vessel connected through a fitting in its lid.
Close-up of white branching fungal growth inside a clear culture vessel with droplets on the wall.
A closer view of the branching growth inside a culture vessel.

Droplet appearance alone does not identify its chemical contents. For experimental methods and measured results, see the research papers.

03 / LABORATORY

The setup behind the cultures

Culture vessels, nutrient-feed components and instrumentation bring the work together on the laboratory bench.

See how Mycoponics works, or read about electrical measurements in living mycelium in the MIND preprint.

Several culture vessels with tubing, syringes, wiring and a control enclosure on a laboratory bench.
Culture vessels, nutrient-feed components and laboratory instrumentation.
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