Patrick man and as soon as the sun is in my college, it is research and to funky, focuses on the use of the material of the future. Using my celia and the spread like network of phone call routes, hes growing the slips that today hes bringing here to try to try to split. How is the time will vironment is crying out for biodegradable materials and that are Less Energy Intensive to produce. And again, you can see the changes to that. He is a brace such a deep and his fascination with funding st. Montalvo, you can see a cloud of growth here. So in the future, i like to see the fungus fill up the whole dish. So this is the one well use, the of the patrick mona is a plan in, even if he likes to use an Old Fashioned hand cause hes researching the way, funding could change on lines. This Industrial Area in edmond brooklyn, a sub to the sun, used to be the size of a vist coast 5 of the century. It was the largest employer in the area until the phone went bankrupt in 2009, leaving the ground heavily contaminated with sink. If he wins the remediation contracts, patrick mona intends to solve this contamination problem with funky, the tombstones that through the state of our planet english. The state of the ground is woolfolk, and its getting worse that a lot of soil is degrading. And its eluded with heavy metals, especially in urban region them. Its all about finding future oriented solutions. Patrick moon is facebook foraging. Sports is on the other side of the son. Here he can gather what he needs, but his look strongly which could help remediate the contaminated Industrial Area. The decent, valid copies mission. I often came walking in this wood as a child of its where i grew up 9 fall cities below. My father is also in my college, just a, from the research here, a few me gave him of the some vague i learned a lot from his internet so that he sparked my interest in nature to solomon having been off to these mysterious organisms and not the plants, no animals, they form their own kingdom. Patrick moon is picky about his mushrooms. He needs special types of special tasks. The stuff gets most today today ive still got 2 or 3 mushrooms on my wish list for Material Development and to be clear of stops if there are 2 or 3 types of bracket. Fungus, id like to find now to use in my next few months work next and thought, oh no, he gets lucky and finds again, no damage, which is just right for his research. Hes not keen on the idea of ordering funky on the internet. The low calling locate funky, just work much better in my lab than the funding you can find. Just anywhere i am get coughing to, to even you here. Ive never worked out why you can help you, but for me thats what works and think. So lets just manually luna used to be a joiner. He also studied product design, but now he devotes himself to funky research. The the best finds from his research, a multiply to you in his lab using a nutrients solution in a petri dish. The women from pearsons for each thing, when you talk about funky, most people think of mushrooms, you put them, but thats just the fruit body that grows above the ground, like an apple on a tree, cut the 50 fiftys and the root body is the reproductive structure. Right then the actual funky is the huge network of my celia. Im in the ground invalid and getting his goal is to breed fungal, my celia. Im here in the lab as it forms the basis of his work in the audience and all to see all of them choose, you know, this one was in the fridge for 6 months in hibernation, as it were. Can you now its slowly growing of cool so that i have to intervene and time for it to thrive. Thats what were doing now. And then i found my favorite tight, and then they were all growing uniformly of excel. Much have a look is selling me and my mother and i just recently moved into one of these labs on the edge of the sink contamination area he wants to remediate. Hes been turning out preliminary tests for a while. This aquarium allows him to examine the results so i appreciate stage you say this reddish layer we see here is the soil heavily contaminated with his inc and hydrocarbons cornered lots of stuff. And i have 4 different types of funky, which can neutralize and thinking hydrocarbons. So you can call in and also shut off. Were using 2 different types of thumb get weve already reduced the pollution levels in half a year to get into it and he transports the results of his experiment outdoors. These beach logs have been injected with my celia. Im from king always to mushrooms. Its now growing all over them. The task of the fungus is to absorb as much think as possible and transfers into the lo fi. Its me to the so funk of my celia is such a large network, the roots, and its like the roots of the funky here on the old here on the surface, it looks like white mat. Patrick moon wants to find out which funky works best with which plants and bacteria to reach the best results on the sides of the hes conducting parallel experiments with willow plants which have proved successful in similar trials. The trips of the roots deep into a kind of fungal brute, so called liquid my celia, to get as much fungus as possible on the young roots. The interaction been work similarly to the beach locks. The vi thank the holdings and seeing the willows extract the sink from the ground, but also what they need the funky to do, so to speak, the funky pass those inc onto the trees through the roots are done decent synchronize on the building authority. What . So the trees then concentrated into the leaves and the branches, right . Then you can s at least 2000000 spaces of funky, exist worldwide. Many living symbiosis with certain tree and bacteria spaces, according to estimates on the one percent is known so as time yet funky, determine important processes in the lives they are increasingly in demand, especially in the biotech sector. The hope is that the new materials based on the phone go my c. M could replace less sustainable materials. The scene of a from the found who is the institute for applied pulling the researching potsdam, has been eagerly awaiting this package. It contains, amid the substitute mushroom leather, this has been died and waxed. A set stuff. This is the stronger material i sent for processing. My gosh, the main task was to die. The original color your, you know, they did a good job of it or found it could be turned into a hand bag or something similar. So now im talking about, id say to off all that kind of scheme of the use of these fine fungal threats to create the live up. His goal is to produce it on a launch scale, substitute live the is an increasingly high demand in the textile industry. In the production process, he makes use of a special property of the phone go my cnn. The fine roots to know, grow in a linear way, but in the 3 dimensional jungle forming structures that can hold carriers substrates together. How does all that looks good . Heavy about that. So the customer will write the purpose of the box and the screws relatively quickly. And doesnt really need any lighting to the point here. We have the idea that we can produce the materials without using too much energy and resources to find much out and has the materials which ideally are recyclable and contribute to the circular economy. You know, these kinds of off, i mean, its not like the usual linear economy way, where you take something, use it, and then throw it away. In terms of texture, its much like animal thats out of his bag. Does he know the show piece mushroom that the products of actually being made from tyndall to fungus for a long time. In romania distribution still exists today, but the material is comparatively red. So production is limited to the wants to change that the, i think thats, thats and thats why youre thinking of it further on this in the course of im going to produce larger quantities so we can produce more quickly. Ill send that out who dont see and can, but it can take years from just like this to grow until its finally ready. Its done hot and switch them off. The basic formula for the material is simple. In a book ads which i didnt nutrients such as will go serial starch to the phone, go my celia. Once mixed together, the growth process is triggered. The result is quite remarkable. This is what the strongest length looks like in its roll state. It resembles a huge list on, you know, the level has matured and innovation room of, to just 2 weeks. A much faster process than with kind of hot unitedhealthcare. It looks pretty good. What kind of actually flashed you can pull it off quite easily as you can see when i started the substrate to hanging from the mushroom leather slips. Tot anita. Hang on. Pits. Lita. Hes constantly refunding the recipe. No, its up to mom. Ive tried a few different substructure combinations, and its always exciting to find out how it works. This is the amount of it can be easily peeled off. Half of this is probably the material has turned out. It does not have soft or hard. It is too hot on thats always an exciting moment of the month to month. Its important to have seen a book that his product is 100 percent organic and the material test the mushroom lives and now has to prove that its durable stretchable and 10 resistant hes looking to optimize it as much as possible industry specifications of the district. So its a good result. We can work with this. Yeah. Yeah. The sooner the great thing about this work is that so much is still a noun, or you can be experimental one for life and take fun. Yes miss, i might discover a fungus that is an ideal as a leather substitute for that is best to go. But it might be able to break down a plastic for instance, plastic up on what on. So unless there is a lot of potential importance out there is still so much to discuss about funky new ways of working with them and benefiting from their affects or imagine all the time. For example, in medical research or in agriculture, the in the son, patrick noone is mixing up a special recipe. The carry a material is a hydrogen made from potato starch. This to and hes fun. This will be used in a vineyard where one make it has hired his surfaces. Mission mission, he is this 1st im mixing the liquid my see liam of 12 different types of funky for the find some citibank, together with a hydro channel which is able to store extremely large quantities of water experiencing last succession. Dyson at the z and run winery, increasing the dry somebody. Supposing a big problem for the wind grow is are looking for ways to counteract whether extremes calls on the climate crisis. Patrick moon, a sprays the my ceiling, them solution from his live onto the roots of the vines. The idea is that the funky can use the low my see little filaments to drove water and use trends out of the depth and support the plants in times of droughts that you belong to me is this except extremely effective with the young plants having broken in a dry summer when it doesnt rain for 3 or 4 months and that you can say then sometimes up to 30 percent of the plants died. If they dont get enough water, fountain was initially can, you can be, they sit there and called in such extreme situations. Funky, can provide a balance. The winemaker nor a brush, mutual cause of the winery from his father. When planting the vines, some rose would not mike arise because the liquid jail had run out with all the different speed visible on see if you can see a difference very clearly, i would say and so a lot of them didnt thrive. The leaves are much lower than the others in this plot folder. Thats right. Id say one in 10 didnt thrive if its in sales could fall. And yes, then it happens that replanted in plots 18 or 19 months of life. But we didnt think about michael, rising them, and it can be nice, but on some it could if you didnt get the, we can still do it now. Holy, that would be great if its still worth a tune. You know, lets see. She was skeptical at the beginning, but now nor of branch made is completely convinced by the phone go to a its, its of, its obvious that its really how other that, of course there are lots of other factors that play a role to unconvinced by this whole system its been so definitely. So these inconstancy statement success for patrick man. From tranquil light. Listen to building micro biologist the past to ensure that is another fun, funky, hes found another useful them, not yet food. He gained his bachelors degree and then found at a stop shop. The 1st fungus works just like classic styrofoam is very shock resistant. We are making use of its properties and we thought, why dont make a bicycle helmets activism. Research is one thing. Launching a product on the market. Is it not . So . Will it succeed . Boston shoot. The develop the project with 2 colleagues, the institute of biotechnology. Its a technical university. The name, a center of funky Research Assistance of water. This is our incubating report. Everything grows is in here, we can see the different stages of groups. This is just being inoculated, and you can see any of the white dish fungal, my seal, liam growth yet, and all that kind of vitamin it is growing completely after 2 weeks. As we see here, this is completely white, and its already a solid bias 20. Im off lucas funding and then pass from the waste agricultural materials formed the basis for a home which show once again, the team does focus, has proven particularly suitable it go through this substrate for 12 days before being chopped into small pieces. As to how many of us so we have the for actually shredded my cyliam composite here is subject to fungus is prestone everywhere onto these individual particles and i fill it in here and then it carries on growing. Im done next period of items on some food on the pills in the spaces between with the mice sylium and at the end we have us form like material for a helmet. Lets try to have the lid is put back on and the dish is put in the incubate to room to finish growing for another 2 to 3 weeks. The past gene schubert has already gone many of these almost common bad like samples. These slices of fungus will later be used to test the safety of the material that should be 9 to, to soft know, to crumpling. How exactly is the product optimized . The positive is in just we see here that it slightly whitish oliver does. Hatcher one for us, that means the shock absorbing properties of the fungus are evenly spread. I can shop on how to test the most fundamental fact. A ive always has to make sure you do a proper job. So you can produce and sell a product that meets the quality Standards Office of credit invest credited spend at all. Because sometimes best change cupid works closely with the industrial partner. The company use x is interested in his product and ski whole months of being discussed, as well as bicycle helmets, initial tests of search to find the materials excellent impact resistance. But a number of issues still need resolving styrofoam requires a lot of fossil energy bonded to water repellant and durable, fungus based helen has to compete with that of them here. Busted size of here we have a sustainable coating phones. Um, we have already done tests with the coating on our helmet and time to meet the weather proof that me to even get tough estimates. Um but we havent yet tested what happens when it comes into contact with sweat for a whole year yet. And then yeah, long sized health, im booked, but these are all problems we can find solutions to. Hopefully not, but thats who gets a, how does lewis own phone go based Building Materials . Could massively benefit the environment . The Construction Industry has an enormous c o. 2 footprint, so theres a lot of room for improvement. At an international building, competition in foothill university change, presenting environmentally friendly building methods and materials that work is in line with the use green deal, which aims to promote searching the economy. Professor de cable from the call through institute of technology and his team have come up with a wooden house on stilts, intended as an extension to an existing building. Table has been working with fungus based Building Materials for a long time. The tunnels to sound proofing and installation, for example, diesel bond is this wall is 100 percent suitable for the circular economy. And so you couldnt get into to either you can reuse it afterwards. Lindsay of all he does, you can chop it up again and add new fun gets bores anointed one to 2, or you can com posted all she couldnt compose to you. So this is how we want to build and futures now shots, but we dont want to put more pollutants into our environment thats going forward. Building should be seen as a store of materials operating and cycles that succeeds. It will be the end of our resource problems and put it in the on the table hopes that more attention will finally be paid to the many potential uses of funding. In the long term, hes convinced that sustainable Building Materials can improve the climate balance is the bottom right is the potential uses of funky in the future, are incredibly wide range. And were only seeing the tip of the iceberg right now when it comes to understanding, exploring and making use of them. So these updates for steve them to a flushing until since but some of the cable and his team are working hard to ensure that the environmental targets sit by the e. You reached to thanks to their innovative use of fungus they, when the building competition info, patel green to you. And this time the green deal actually wants the Construction Industry to go completely circular by 2050. All these. Then we need to do more research to increase the percentage of organic and ground Building Materials, including fungus, to get to the why on theres so few fungus based products on the market so far best into bit in 1000000000, has one possible answer his helmet with an in a shell of fungus will not be produced for the time being so i guess applicable was a box at the startup project for now, due to patent problems that was in the service. We knew that pattons exist in this field script, especially from the American Company echo feet of on then we did some research and it showed that these patents are very cetera how we would infringe them. We didnt see any way of writing that really phillips and button on down the phones kind of because they ended so again, he has since closed down his style shop function, saying that the paytons already awarded effect almost every development in this field. The payments were late very generally to materials that are still supporting and held together by phone go. My ceiling in apparently, 9th and my ceiling am know the substrate use to know individual manufacturing steps was specified in more detail. Sometimes i find them and i think someone had a very good patent attorney who wrote a very good patent for the company. So yeah, who just attend scheme as well. The stuffs have 1st glance. It also the super innovative to someone who isnt very well versed in the s