How to Replace the Backing of an Electronic Device With Fungus

The biggest part that we wanted to replace is the substrate of an electronic device. So usually this is made either a fiberglass with resin coatings or if you're going the flexible way, poorly mites or something like that. And we used a very specific fungus that has this property that when it grows as a big substrate block, it forms a skin on top. It's just really a paper like sheet that you can harvest and then use as a substrate instead of these non-degradable materials.

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