Home resilience for bushfire season has been boosted further via the ingenuity of a group of UNSW engineers, who have developed a fire-retardant paint that is the first to ever pass a number of rigorous Australian standard tests.
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Mycelium, an incredible network of fungal strands that can thrive on organic waste and in darkness, could be a basis for sustainable fireproofing. RMIT researchers are chemically manipulating its composition to harness its fire-retardant properties.A
A research team from RMIT University, UNSW, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Australian Research Council Training Centre in Fire Retardant Materials and Safety Technologies has developed a number of fireproof cladding materials made out of mycelium fungi grown from renewable organic waste.