균사체 기반 비건 가죽 소재 개발: 제지 공정을 통한 지속 가능성 강화 = Development of Mycelium-based Vegan Leather: Enhancing Sustainability through Papermaking Process

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Mycelium-based vegan leather is emerging as a sustainable alternative to traditional animal and synthetic leather, addressing key environmental and ethical issues associated with these materials.
Integrating papermaking processes into the production of mycelium-based vegan leather can serve as a critical method for improving scalability, uniformity, and mechanical performance. Additionally, papermaking processes can be utilized as a major manufacturing method since they allow control over physical properties such as flexibility and mechanical strength of mycelium-based biomass sheets by adjusting their basis weight and density. The production of mycelium-based vegan leather through papermaking processes has the potential to evolve into a sustainable and scalable alternative across various industries, including fashion and automotive. This review, therefore, discusses the challenges of traditional leather materials, the characteristics of various raw materials for vegan leather production, and particularly, the advantages of mushroom mycelium-based leather produced using papermaking processes. Finally, it outlines future research directions for the development of this material.