Reading Room / Mycelium
Reading Room / Mycelium
Growing molecular reads
Mycelium, the grown composite.
The threads and the wall that hold it together, and why it is killed to become a product.
Growing molecular reads
Mycelium, the grown composite.
The threads and the wall that hold it together, and why it is killed to become a product.
MATTER
01/08
start here
Mycelium, from the molecule up
What a hypha actually is, what the wall is made of, and why the kill step decides what you are allowed to call the product.
Foundational · Molecular · Framework
start here
Mycelium, from the molecule up
What a hypha actually is, what the wall is made of, and why the kill step decides what you are allowed to call the product.
Foundational · Molecular · Framework
The rest of the shelf
02
The wall that holds the mat together
Chitin and β-glucans, cross-linked. Where the stiffness comes from, and what water does to it.
MOLECULAR · STRUCTURE
03
Designing a mycelium wall enzyme with AI
A generative model proposes a chitin deacetylase variant. What the wet lab did with the proposal, and what it refused.
MOLECULAR · STRUCTURE
04
Growing and finishing the composite
Substrate, colonisation, press, heat. Every step trades property for a shelf life, and one of them decouples the organism.
MOLECULAR · STRUCTURE
Molecules Covered
chitin
β-glucans
Glossary
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