Plastic to elastic: fungi-derived composite nanopapers with tunable tensile properties

• Main Authors: Wan Nawawi, Wan Mohd Fazli, P. Jones, Mitchell, Kontturi, Eero, Mautner, Andreas, Bismarck, Alexander
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English; English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 2020
• Subjects: TP1080 Polymers, plastics and their manufacture
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/88118/1/88118_Plastic%20to%20elastic%20fungi-derived%20composite.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/88118/2/88118_Plastic%20to%20elastic%20fungi-derived%20composite_WoS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/88118/3/88118_Plastic%20to%20elastic%20fungi-derived%20composite_SCOPUS.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/88118/; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0266353820311738; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2020.108327

Fungal chitin is attracting commercial and academic interest as a cheap, renewable, easily isolated and abundant alternative to crustacean chitin. Being covalently decorated with β-glucan, fungal chitin exhibits a native nanocomposite architecture that varies in fibre diameter and chitin to β-glucan...