Patent ID: 9485917
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: A01G,B32B,C05D,C12N,Y10T

Claim Text:
1. A method of making a composite material comprising the steps of forming an inoculum including a preselected fungus; forming a mixture of a substrate of discrete particles and a nutrient material, said nutrient material being capable of being digested by said fungi; adding said inoculum to said mixture, allowing said fungus to digest said nutrient material in said mixture over period sufficient to grow hyphae and to allow said hyphae to form a network of interconnected mycelia cells through and around said discrete particles thereby bonding said discrete particles together to form a self-supporting composite material; and wherein at least one of said inoculum and said mixture includes water and which further comprises the step of heating the formed self-supporting composite material to a temperature sufficient to kill said fungus.