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>When they extracted and dried out the skin, they found it is flexible, a good insulator, can withstand temperatures of more than 200°C (390°F) and has a thickness similar to that of a sheet of paper – good properties for a circuit’s substrate.

Mushrooms are amazing

Magical, some would say.

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Reminds me of that one species in All Tomorrow's that breeds biotechnology

Humans are more closely related to mushrooms and other fungus than they are to trees and plants... humans and fungi breath oxygen and expel co2.. trees and other plants do the opposite

We in the same family

We're not even in the same kingdom.

I bet you ate some mushrooms

So biological computers. The future that sci-fi predicted, here we come!

I read somewhere that our lineage converge if you follow the trail back through evolution

More so than plants .. is that incorrect?

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No that's correct fungi are more closely related to animila than Plantae but the same family as humans would be orangutans, chimpanzees, and gorillas.

Ah i see... Yeh I understand what you mean now.. as in scientific classifications. Quite right my learned friend

i don't think this quite fits a 'biological computer,' in that case the circuit would be designed to work synchronously with the nervous system of the mushroom, not just fitted on top of nonliving skin

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Combine it with the neural tissue grown on a circuit board, and boptronics starts sounding more likely than ever.

Chad reference

And a snack in a pinch! Mushroom wafers, anyone?

If we can grow and ear in the lab we can grow. Circuit board

Hey, it appears you don't quite understand how plants function. Plants indeed reduce oxygen to H2O to make ATP, the energy chemical all living things must produce. They do it with the same enzyme, ATP synthase, that every living organism on earth possesses. They do this by oxidizing carbohydrates into CO2 through the same reactios we do.

What plants are also able to do is harvest the energy in sunlight to turn CO2 and water back into carbohydrates. Because most of their structure is made of carbohydrates and carbohydrate compounds, they must do a lot of this, so they net consume CO2 and produce O2.

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Even if it winds up being 10 years behind in terms of performance, if it's cheap enough it could be a market changer.

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Nervous system of the mushroom?

> The base of computer chips and batteries tends to be made from unrecyclable plastic, but using skin from a certain species of mushroom instead would reduce electronic waste

..um.. so, what batteries use plastic as a main material? none that I'm aware of, they are all metal bodied, or plastic shell around metal body in more rare cases like cameras etc.

nope. coulda read the article

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TIL I learned that Subnautica was prophetic

Subnautica here we come

Nah, i choose to believe this is the first step towards biological computers.

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Table coral and acid mushrooms, baby

The comment I came here for.

Did that really just happen

Computer Science has reached the point where we are Wizards harnessing lightning by channeling it through rocks, precious metals, and mushrooms in order to solve the questions of the universe and communicate with others through vast distances. My new name will be Redbeard the Jolly and you will respect my lightning magic!

So… not a computer chip. A substrate is the base material of a PCBA (typically FR4 with copper layers), a computer chip is silicon.

But why fix the recycling of computer chips? Those are only 1-2% of the electronics.....need to recycle circuit boards, or connectors

Maybe they're referring to laptop batteries but it was not specific

Flipchip applications come to mind. Source: 30 years of IC layout.

You mean SOC or something with an interposer? Cuz wouldn’t flip chip be bare silicon down to PCBA?

Precisely what the mushroom substrate substitution for the pcb laminate in the assembly. have a look

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yeah idk i'm not a mycologist. i just assumed they had one i.e. some specific system to send signals across themselves with electric impulses

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Mushrooms use something similar for communication between fruiting bodies, specifically sending electrical signals over distances using mycelial threads called hyphae. Within the fruiting bodies (what people think of as mushrooms), I believe it's mostly chemical signaling. Plants also generally use chemical signals, via releasing VOCs, secreting chemicals into the soil, or by sending them through the same channels used for water and nutrients.

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