Descripción del proyecto
Hongos al rescate de la moda a través de unos tejidos ecológicos
El micelio es la parte vegetativa de los hongos y consiste en estructuras largas y entrelazadas con forma de hilo. Estas redes de hilos fúngicos son impresionantes. De hecho, el micelio puede emplearse para desarrollar productos innovadores para distintas industrias, desde el envasado y el embalaje al textil. Sin duda esto es una buena noticia, sobre todo para la industria de la moda, donde los textiles sostenibles y biodegradables son un complemento bienvenido al moderno vestuario de «moda rápida». El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos MY-FI desarrollará una nueva tela sin tejer confeccionada con microfibras de micelio, con un mejor rendimiento y un menor impacto ambiental que las fibras disponibles actualmente. El proyecto optimizará y ampliará nuevos protocolos de biofabricación, así como el procesamiento húmedo y el acabado del material. Su objetivo es satisfacer la demanda de los consumidores de productos textiles ecológicos y sostenibles.
Objetivo
The aim of MY-FI is to provide the textile industry with a new nonwoven fabrics made of mycelium fibres, with improved performances and reduced environmental impact in comparison with current commercially available fibres. Mycelium fibres are obtained by fungal fermentation, starting from the residues of the textile indusrty, using a mild process and can be used to produce sustainable and performing nonwoven fabrics. Mycelium fibres indeed can extend the field of use of nonwoven fabrics to demanding or luxury applications. In virtue of their properties and aesthetics, mycelium fibres can be adopted, for example, in automotive or footwear applications that currently use animal leather as preferred material. In MY-FI new biofabrication protocols will be optimized and upscaled together with wet processing and material finishing to provide a set of innovative solutions to help the textile industry in facing the challenges posed by the complex megatrends that are quickly chagning markets and customers' lifestyles globally.
The mission of MY-FI is to develop a biobased textile, with advanced functionalities, sustainability and performance, achieving four high level goals:
1. empowering the textile industry to successfully face the challenges posed by the emerging global trends;
2. meet the consumer demand for new functional and sustainable textile products;
3. relief the environmental pressure related to the textile industry, developing a circular and biobased textile that does not generate microplastics.
4. engage the textile stakeholders and provide guidance to policymakers
Mycelium fabrics indeed are fully biobased and sustainable, obtained from circular value chains, widely customizable, highly performing, and can be produced using advanced manufacturing process. Thanks to these properties they have the potential to meet the market demands for sustainable and performing materials, allowing designers and brands to create more functional products.
Ámbito científico
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineering
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextiles
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybioprocessing technologiesfermentation
Palabras clave
Programa(s)
- H2020-EU.3.2. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy Main Programme
- H2020-EU.3.2.4.3. - Supporting market development for bio-based products and processes
- H2020-EU.3.2.4.2. - Developing integrated biorefineries
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-FNR-2020-1
Régimen de financiación
IA - Innovation actionCoordinador
21020 Inarzo
Italia
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.