AI-designed concrete could soon allow for self-healing roads that can repair cracks and prevent potholes completely.
Could so-called ‘hot mixing’, with pockets of reactive lime clasts inside the cured concrete provide self-healing properties? At its core, this is the recipe which any hydraulic cement uses ...
What if concrete had the same kind of self-healing ability as human tissue? Our team at the Advanced Infrastructure Materials lab at Drexel University was inspired by self-healing tissue in the ...
Self-healing roads might seem like something we could have in the future, but scientists and Google are working on making it ...
This everyday miracle is what inspired [Congrui Jin] to try to find a way to make concrete self-healing. The answer she and her colleagues are working on might surprise you. They are adding fungus ...
I heard about assistant professor Bill Jin's innovative product last year and with winter here, decided to reach out to learn ...
This new concrete is not only self-heating, it's self-healing, which could solve a multitude of problems we see out on the roads. “What can I say, I have to be out on it, but they are terrible ...
Self-healing concrete, for example, can autonomously repair cracks and prevent the ingress of water and other harmful substances, mitigating the need for costly repairs and improving the overall ...
Students may have found a solution, with the invention of a new type of concrete. This new concrete is not only self-heating, it's self-healing, which could solve a multitude of problems we see out on ...