NEW MATERIALS

The same scientific research that has led to super-high performance materials over the years is now focusing on super-flexible, super-adaptable materials, including substances that repair themselves.

Re-Healable Bio-Concrete

Henk Jonkers, Eric Schlangen, TU Delft
The Netherlands, 2008

Experimental concrete containing limestone-producing bacteria. The organisms in the chemical composition of the limestone feed on corrosive rainwater seeping into the structure and calcium lactite to produce calcite, eliminating the cracks and holes that form in concrete, and thus repairing the damages caused by acid rain.
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