{"id":158837,"date":"2023-02-23T15:25:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T21:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/old-fungus-could-soon-be-used-to-make-new-plastics"},"modified":"2023-02-23T15:25:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T21:25:26","slug":"old-fungus-could-soon-be-used-to-make-new-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/old-fungus-could-soon-be-used-to-make-new-plastics","title":{"rendered":"Old fungus could soon be used to make new plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/old-fungus-could-soon-be-used-to-make-new-plastics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fungus has been traditionally used as a fire starter.<\/p>\n<p>A fungus called tinder fungus that grows on the bark of rotting beech and birch trees has been used as a fire starter for a long time, but it may just have a new use: the creation of plastics.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland proceeded to analyze the internal structure of the fungus, formally called Fomes fomentarius, to understand its strong yet lightweight consistency.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Dhoxax\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>Humans have used the material to feed fires for centuries. But it recently piqued the interest of the scientific community as a replacement for certain plastics, according to a study published in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fungus has been traditionally used as a fire starter. A fungus called tinder fungus that grows on the bark of rotting beech and birch trees has been used as a fire starter for a long time, but it may just have a new use: the creation of plastics. Researchers at the VTT Technical Research [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}