{"id":3962,"date":"2015-01-31T11:27:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T15:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2015-02-10T15:15:48","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T19:15:48","slug":"materials-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2015\/01\/31\/materials-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Materials research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are starting <a href=\"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/classes\/fungus\/\">The Fungus Among Us<\/a>, a 7 week course at ITP.<br \/>\nOne of my goals is to\u00a0build a materials library to test<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; species differences<br \/>\n&#8211; color (in the substrate, after the material has grown)<br \/>\n&#8211; sealants<br \/>\n&#8211; pliability<br \/>\n&#8211; thinness<br \/>\n&#8211; carvability<\/p>\n<p>using<br \/>\n&#8211; natural dyes,<br \/>\n&#8211; varnishes,<br \/>\n&#8211; fibers,<br \/>\n&#8211; beeswax<\/p>\n<p>growing in burlap &#8211; shaped<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>smeared onto burlap (blended first w\/substrate)<\/li>\n<li>impregnate burlap with just the grain spawn<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>use bamboo skewers to create armatures<\/p>\n<p>A slurry in a 3D printer nozzle<\/p>\n<p>What other alkaline substrates are useful besides coffee chaff and oat straw?<br \/>\nHow thin can the material be?<br \/>\nHow flexible?<br \/>\nWhat organic materials can be introduced into the substrate that extend its elasticity, density, porosity?<\/p>\n<p>Can you grow more mycelium on &#8220;dead&#8221; (baked) inoculated substrate? This would\u00a0allow you to repair or add new parts later<\/p>\n<p>Are there protocols for this kind of r + d?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are starting The Fungus Among Us, a 7 week course at ITP. One of my goals is to\u00a0build a materials library to test &#8211; species differences &#8211; color (in the substrate, after the material has grown) &#8211; sealants &#8211; pliability &#8211; thinness &#8211; carvability using &#8211; natural dyes, &#8211; varnishes, &#8211; fibers, &#8211; beeswax &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2015\/01\/31\/materials-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Materials research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3962"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3971,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3962\/revisions\/3971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}