Engineered from fungi. Built for performance
MYCOGENIC engineers high-performance, fungi-rooted materials designed to set a new standard for
bio-based products.
Innovating Bio-Based Solutions
Structural Packaging Inserts
MYCOGENIC is developing high-performance shipping inserts built from fungi-rooted biomaterials and engineered for the protection needs of valuable, fragile, and mission-critical products. Our insert platform combines mycelium-based composites, natural latex-modified foams, and bio-based filler systems to create tunable cushioning structures that can be optimized for shock absorption, compression resistance, fit, and durability. Designed for applications such as medical devices, electronics, precision equipment, and returnable packaging systems, these inserts offer a bio-based alternative to petroleum-derived protective foams without compromising performance. By pairing material innovation with practical packaging engineering, MYCOGENIC aims to deliver protective inserts that are strong, adaptable, and built to meet the demands of modern high-value shipping.
Mycelium Sensing Networks
MYCOGENIC is exploring an advanced sensing layer within its packaging platform using inactivated mycelium networks as bio-based structural sensors. These materials are designed to preserve the natural filament-like architecture of mycelium while integrating conductive elements that allow the insert or sensor panel to respond to pressure, compression, impact, and environmental changes. When paired with protective shipping inserts, this sensing capability could provide valuable insight into how a package experiences real-world handling, helping manufacturers understand shock events, compression loads, humidity exposure, and potential product risk during transit. The goal is to create packaging that not only protects high-value products, but also helps verify, monitor, and improve protection performance through fungi-rooted material intelligence.
Critical Minerals Recovery
Tunable materials for complex separation challenges
MYCOGENIC is developing fungal-derived sorbent materials engineered to recover and separate critical minerals from complex process streams.
Our platform combines mycelium-based materials with tailored surface chemistry, biochar, and functional additives to control how metals interact with the sorbent. Rather than relying on a single fixed material, our goal is to create a tunable separation platform that can be adapted to different feedstocks, target metals, and processing conditions.
Current development is focused on applications including manganese and zinc recycling, rare earth element processing, hydrometallurgical purification, and treatment of dilute mineral-bearing streams. The technology is being evaluated for both direct mineral capture and selective polishing steps that remove competing contaminants while preserving valuable materials in solution.
By using renewable biological feedstocks and relatively simple material-processing methods, MYCOGENIC is working toward separation technologies that can complement existing hydrometallurgical processes while reducing chemical intensity, waste generation, and processing complexity.
Current R&D priorities include:
- Selective manganese and transition-metal separation
- Rare earth element recovery and purification
- Tunable surface functionalization for metal selectivity
- Regeneration and recovery of captured metals
- Integration with recycling and hydrometallurgical process streams
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