{"id":106572,"date":"2020-05-05T13:22:50","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T20:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/environmentally-friendly-living-concrete-capable-of-self-healing"},"modified":"2020-05-05T13:22:50","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T20:22:50","slug":"environmentally-friendly-living-concrete-capable-of-self-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/environmentally-friendly-living-concrete-capable-of-self-healing","title":{"rendered":"Environmentally friendly \u2018living concrete\u2019 capable of self-healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/environmentally-friendly-living-concrete-capable-of-self-healing.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers said this building material has structural load-bearing function, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/matter\/fulltext\/S2590-2385(19)30391-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is capable of self-healing<\/a> and is more environmentally friendly than concrete \u2013 which is the second most-consumed material on Earth after water.<\/p>\n<p>The team from the University of Colorado Boulder believe their work paves the way for future building structures that could \u201cheal their own cracks, suck up dangerous toxins from the air or even glow on command\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/ceae\/wil-v-srubar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wil Srubar<\/a>, who heads the Living Materials Laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder and is one of the study authors, said: \u201cWe already use biological materials in our buildings, like wood, but those materials are no longer alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers said this building material has structural load-bearing function, is capable of self-healing and is more environmentally friendly than concrete \u2013 which is the second most-consumed material on Earth after water. The team from the University of Colorado Boulder believe their work paves the way for future building structures that could \u201cheal their own cracks, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}