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While fungal pigments are more renewable than anilines and pose less of an environmental risk, the carrier required for these pigments\u2014dichloromethane (DCM)\u2014is both problematic for humans and tends to only deposit the pigments on the surface of wood instead of evenly within the material. Internal coloration of wood is key to adoption of a pigmenting system by woodworkers. To address this issue, five solvents that had moderate solubility with the pigments extracted from Chlorociboria aeruginosa and Scytalidium cuboideum were identified, in the hopes that a reduction in solubility would result in a greater amount of the pigment deposited inside the wood. Of the tested solvents, acetonitrile was found to produce the highest internal color in ash, Douglas-fir, madrone, mountain hemlock, Port-Orford cedar, Pacific silver fir, red alder and sugar maple. While these carrier solvents are not ideal for extracting the pigments from the fungi, acetonitrile in particular does appear to allow for more pigment to be deposited within wood. The use of acetonitrile over DCM offers new opportunities for possible industrial spalting applications, in which larger pieces of wood could be uniformly pigmented and sold to the end user in larger quantities than are currently available with spalted wood.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ma11060897","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,5,29]],"date-time":"2018-05-29T02:58:18Z","timestamp":1527562698000},"page":"897","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Alternative Carrier Solvents for Pigments Extracted from Spalting Fungi"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"given":"Lauren","family":"Pittis","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Diego","family":"Rodrigues de Oliveira","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Wood Science &amp; Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1882-8784","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sarath M.","family":"Vega Gutierrez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Wood Science &amp; Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Seri C.","family":"Robinson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Wood Science &amp; Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,5,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"24","article-title":"Colonization of sugar maple by spalting fungi","volume":"57","author":"Robinson","year":"2007","journal-title":"For. 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