A team from Empa is creating luminous wood by using honey fungus, which glows thanks to a natural bioluminescence process.
The biohybrid of fungus and wood, developed in the lab, produces green light after being incubated for three months, with plans to increase its luminosity further.For the first time, scientists found a way to produce a novel material out of wood and a bioluminescent fungus. They made wood that glows bright green.
After testing different bioluminescent mushrooms, project head Francis Schwarze came to discover that the honey fungus turned out to be a particularly powerful producer of luciferin, which gives the ‘shroom its magic glow known as “foxfire.” “The main reason for this is that the balance between the choice of fungal species, wood species, its moisture content and the environmental conditions required to produce bioluminescent wood is very challenging,” says the Empa researcher.
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