Electrospinning of fungal biopolymers to make biomaterials for medical application
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2022-09-30
In this project, food waste was used to cultivation the filamentous fungi and produce fungal chitosan. The fungal chitosan was purified and subjected to an electrospinning process to produce a porous textile made of chitosan nanofibres. The obtained material showed very promising effect on the wound healing in vitro experiment.
Photos: Filamentous fungi grown on food waste, schematic of an electrospinning equipment, (top): image of electrospun fungal polymers (left: optical, right:scanning electron microscopy), and plaster (as example of end application).
