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With This Self-Healing Concrete, Buildings Repair Themselves

With This Self-Healing Concrete, Buildings Repair Themselves | Biomimicry | Scoop.it
A concrete developed by Dutch scientists and embedded with limestone-producing bacteria is ready to hit the market
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Dutch Scientists Create Concrete that Heals Itself With Built-in Bacteria

Dutch Scientists Create Concrete that Heals Itself With Built-in Bacteria | Biomimicry | Scoop.it

"Scientists in the Netherlands have created a bio-concrete blend with built-in bacteria that can patch up small cracks and holes in cement. Activated by water, the bacteria would eat food provided in the concrete mixture to combine calcium with oxygen and carbon dioxide to form what is essentially limestone."

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