Self-Healing Concrete Is An Ingenious Solution To Cracked Roads
By Tom Hale
22 Jan 2018, 10:49
Ingeniously simple and inspired by nature, this “self-healing†concrete could mean cracked roads and potholes will soon become a thing of the past.
Researchers at Binghamton University in New York have been working on a concrete that’s able to fill in its cracks using Trichoderma reesei, a fungus first isolated from a piece of cotton canvas in the Solomon Islands during World War II. Best of all, the solution is low cost and pollution-free. Their breakthrough was recently published in the academic journal Construction & Building Materials.
http://www.iflscience.com/technology/selfhealing-concrete-is-an-ingenious-solution-to-cracked-roads/
