Published: Aug 25, 2024
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sentence group Tuesday August 27th 2024 grp 107 the collapse for internet May 3rd 2024 read loud 10 second trivia what is the collective name for single cell microscopic organisms that live in the soil water and animals bacteria blood DNA or virus answer is bacteria the number of bacteria D you know that you have in your mouth is more than the total number of humans on earth that is wild all right there a sustainable alternative for fashion maybe Fabrics with 0% animal or plastic is that even possible well actually it is this London based biotech company modern syn es has developed a way to create low impact textiles using bacteria Yes you heard that right bacteria but to create raw materials using this processor a mass scale life of fashion industry would need it will be costly just how much is the question take a look strong lightweight and Vel but this material is not anything you know it's being created with bacteria biotechnology thatle modern synthesis is learning form and collaborating with living organisms to make brand new low impact textiles bacteria are really amazing sometimes they can be harmful but most of the time they're really beneficial we use bacteria to make s bread cheese yogurt we can work with bacteria to make even more exciting new products the aim to create sustainable alternatives to traditional fabrics and help cve emissions and pollution associated with the fashion industry key to the companies processes cellulose a type of fiber will a higher strength to weight ratio it's known as natur building block it makes of materials like cotton wood and bamboo it all starts here with a bacteria invisible to the human eye it's called Kus and it's isolated from Kucha from we feed up the sugars and then it produces Nano cellus which is a special fine strong form of cellulose it's a times stronger than steel on a fiber level we can then process it manipulated at the Nano structure we use green chemistries to process the material to add additional functionalities whether that be waterproofness or just aesthetic properties like color and different pairing we then form the material together with a natural textile and that allows us to customize the kind of strength and flexibility in new ways the final products are 100% animal and plastic free but to create products on the M scale like the fashion industry is used to is costly in the long run I'm confident that we can create materials that consider the same price points as those that we use today and to use the existing equipment from the texti industry and the food industry so that we don't have to build everything from scratch modern synthesis is part of a growing number of companies in the Next Generation material space producing new textiles from raw materials such as mushroom melum AR or bacteria for the first time we're able to offer the aesthetic and the performance of the materials that we use every day or without the plastic and without the animal and I can't stress how hard it is