Australian engineer & materials scientist. Ph.D. @RMIT & @UniVienna 2020, Post-Doc @TUvienna. Outreach Editor @RCRjournal. #Biotechnology, #PolymericMaterials

Joined September 2020
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🎶 Through the ffiirrree 🔥, to the limit, to the wall 🎶 A €1.4 million lab fire. A two year recovery. Countless hours lost. Projects ruined. Tears shed. We're very grateful to @NatureChemistry for allowing us to tell our story... nature.com/articles/s41557-0…

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IMCR member Felix Zinsser is the star of an episode on ARTE about our fungal leather work (alongside @Bismarck_PaCE) on how to make fair and sustainable clothes. Watch from ~18 min 🍄 arte.tv/de/videos/106243-009…

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Now all the French kids and those learning French @MehdiMustafa14 can learn about the role of fungal biorefinery in sustainable cities of the future @LeLaboSVJ. More for the bigger kids at rdcu.be/b6SOQ.
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Our latest paper utilising mushrooms in water and organic solvent filtration
Neptun, Mitch, Alex & Andreas just published their work on fungal chitin-glucan nanopapers for ultrafiltration. The work was accepted in Carbohydrate Polymers' special issue for the 6th EPNOE conference🍄 sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Attention from @adidas and some other big names following the release of our article sees the widespread realease of fungi-derived leather-like materials scheduled for 2021! Just around the corner... nature.com/articles/s41893-0… nytimes.com/2020/10/02/fashi…

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Auch wenn wir nicht die Entdecker dieses Materials sind, ist hier unser Interview über Leder aus Pilzen mit CafePuls4. 🍄 Unseren Artikel darüber findet Ihr hier: rdcu.be/b6SOQ
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Our review (rdcu.be/b6SOQ) caught attention: Mitch rocks Austria on Radio Kronehit, it's dubbed though...
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We made it to the big time!! Very happy here in the Institute today. You can read the work for free here: rdcu.be/b6SOQ 🍄👞

“It feels a bit and smells a bit like mushroom, still, but it looks like a piece of old leather jacket.” Fungi-based leather is more sustainably produced than traditional or synthetic leather, but questions remain about its long-term durability. nyti.ms/2ZJ078V
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Our latest article in @naturesustainab made it to @nytimes and @CNN but I'm still just surprised it made it to @DungogChronicle. nature.com/articles/s41893-0…

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