{"id":249405,"date":"2025-04-26T14:58:48","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T18:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/?p=249405"},"modified":"2025-04-23T08:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T12:58:41","slug":"the-development-of-a-self-healing-building-material-could-replace-concrete","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/the-development-of-a-self-healing-building-material-could-replace-concrete\/","title":{"rendered":"The development of a \u201cself-healing building material\u201d could replace concrete"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A team of engineers at Montana State University<\/strong> has used living fungal mycelium and bacterial cells to create a self-healing building material, offering a greener alternative to conventional concrete.<\/p>\n\n

The development of a self-healing building material<\/h2>\n\n

This material can remain alive at low temperatures and was designed to self-repair for over a month<\/strong> . This makes it an attractive option compared to other biomaterials that typically have a much shorter lifespan. <\/p>\n\n

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Biomineralized materials do not have the strength to replace concrete in all applications, but we and others are working to improve their properties so they can be more widely used.<\/p>\nChelsea Heveran, assistant professor at Montana State University.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n

What’s fascinating about this project is its ability to self-repair, and its potential for other useful functions, such as remediating contamination, as the bacteria within the material<\/a><\/strong> remain active for longer periods of time. In this sense, the team hopes that future advances will allow these materials to continue evolving to fulfill more complex functions. <\/p>\n\n

The use of fungal mycelium<\/strong> as a scaffold for biomineralized materials also opens the door to new forms of materials engineering, with complex architectures inspired by natural structures like cortical bone. Such materials have a potential impact on reducing CO\u2082 emissions<\/strong> and could improve sustainable construction in the future. <\/p>\n\n

In the next stage of the project, the team hopes to continue refining these materials<\/strong> so they can be manufactured on a larger scale and further optimize their properties for broader applications. Heveran’s vision is to replace the most polluting building materials, such as cement<\/strong> , with alternatives that help reduce the global carbon footprint. <\/p>\n\n

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These types of materials have a potential impact on reducing CO\u2082 emissions and could improve construction in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8404,"featured_media":249212,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13034,13078],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-249405","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-curiosities","categoria_noticias-innovation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/249405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/249405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=249405"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=249405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}