Disclosed herein are a composition for an environment-friendly synthetic board including coffee sludge, which is used to manufacture an environment-friendly synthetic board, such as flooring, a molded synthetic board for architecture, or the like, by using coffee sludge that is left as residual waste after the sale of coffee in a specialty coffee shop, or the like, and a method of manufacturing an environment-friendly synthetic board by using the composition. The composition is formed by adding, per 100 parts by weight of coffee sludge powder, 12.5 to 15 parts by weight of synthetic resin, 4 to 8 parts by weight of calcium carbonate, 15 to 20 parts by weight of talc, and 1 to 4 parts by weight of plasticizer, and then mixing them.

Provided herein are mycelium materials and methods for production thereof. In some embodiments, a mycelium material includes: a mycelium material including one or more disrupted fibers, wherein the one or more disrupted fibers is oriented in a z-direction and/or a bonding agent may be combined with the mycelium material. Methods of producing a mycelium material are also provided.

Described herein are low protein concentration gelling compositions comprising keratin proteins.

Textile compositions comprising at least one filamentous fungus are disclosed, as are methods for making and using such textile compositions. Embodiments of the textile compositions generally include at least one of a plasticizer, a polymer, and a crosslinker, in addition to the filamentous fungus. The disclosed textile compositions are particularly useful as analogs or substitutes for conventional textile compositions, including but not limited to leather.

The invention relates to a biomaterial and/or a biocomposite based on sunflower seed shells/husks. According to the invention, it is proposed that sunflower seed shells/husks are used instead of wood, bamboo or other wood-like fiber products as the original material for the biocomposite products and are used for the production of such products in order to improve the previous biomaterials, and in particular also to design said materials for improved cost efficiency and to improve their material properties.

Provided are a resin composition containing (A) a thermosetting resin. (B) a compound that is in a liquid state at 25? C. has a reactive group, and has a molecular weight of 1,000 or less, and (C) an inorganic filler, a resin film using the resin composition, a printed wiring board, and a semiconductor package.

One or more embodiments of the invention are directed toward biodegradable films from distiller's dried grains with solubles (DDGS), especially sorghum DDGS, and methods of making the same. The films, which are suitable for use as packaging films, can be produced by directly conditioning the DDGS via a milling process, such as wet milling (e.g., colloid mill and ball milling) in water or a sodium hydroxide solution. The milled slurry is co-dissolved with plasticizers and stabilizers (preferably all less than 1% by weight) in a mixture of water and an organic solvent. The mixture is then used for film processing via pour-casting. The biodegradable films have significant antioxidant and antimicrobial activities related to their phenolic content.

A foam includes a cellular structure and having a density of at most 0.50 g/cm.sup.3, where the cellular structure is provided by a solid material that includes humins. Such a foam is prepared in a process, which includes: providing a starting material containing humins; and heating the starting material to a temperature in the range of 150 to 450 C. The foam can be used in articles for a variety of applications such as substrate for plant growth, as adsorbent for treating waste water or waste gases, as support for solid catalysts, as insulation material, or packaging material.

A method is for forming a bioplastic material. The method provides a mixture comprising a keratinaceous substrate, and a secondary biopolymer substrate that includes one or more of an amine, hydroxyl and carboxyl group. The method also includes crosslinking the keratinaceous substrate and the secondary biopolymer substrate to form the bioplastic material. A crosslinking agent may be used.

A process for the manufacture of a solid thermoset foam includes the following successive stages: (a) making available an expandable and thermosetting composition containing a sugar and an acid catalyst chosen from strong acids, phosphoric acid and acidic inorganic salts, (b) introducing the expandable and thermosetting composition into a mold or applying the expandable composition to a support as a film with a thickness at least equal to 1 mm, and (c) heating the expandable and thermosetting composition to a temperature at least equal to 140 C., so as to form a block of solid thermoset foam.