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How can mushrooms improve wood properties? Swiss research has the answer

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Switzerland's Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology said on the 27th that they are experimenting with mushrooms to improve certain properties of fir and spruce, in order to expand the uses of these woods. Fir and spruce make up 60% of Switzerland's trees and have the advantages of strong mechanical endurance and being easy to process, but they also have weaknesses such as being difficult to process finely and difficult to use for a long time. In addition, protective coatings such as fireproof, anti-corrosion or UV-resistant coatings are difficult to penetrate into these woods, which limits their development and use, for example, they cannot be used as exterior building materials. Researchers are experimenting with wood-eating mushrooms to change

Switzerland's Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology said on the 27th that they are experimenting with mushrooms to improve certain properties of fir and spruce, in order to expand the uses of these woods.

Fir and spruce make up 60% of Switzerland's trees and have the advantages of strong mechanical endurance and being easy to process, but they also have weaknesses such as being difficult to process finely and difficult to use for a long time. In addition, protective coatings such as fireproof, anti-corrosion or UV-resistant coatings are difficult to penetrate into these woods, which limits their development and use, for example, they cannot be used as exterior building materials.

Researchers are experimenting with wood-eating mushrooms to change this situation, because some parasitic wood-eating mushrooms feed specifically on certain components in wood but do not damage its strength. They conducted biotechnology research in the laboratory, exploring cultivation time, temperature and specific mushroom varieties, and achieved good preliminary results. The penetration of water-based coatings into wood "modified" by wood-eating mushrooms increased 8 times.

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