{"id":132843,"date":"2021-12-22T02:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T10:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/step-forward-in-quest-to-develop-living-construction-materials-and-beyond"},"modified":"2021-12-22T02:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T10:22:37","slug":"step-forward-in-quest-to-develop-living-construction-materials-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/step-forward-in-quest-to-develop-living-construction-materials-and-beyond","title":{"rendered":"Step forward in quest to develop living construction materials and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/step-forward-in-quest-to-develop-living-construction-materials-and-beyond2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some engineered living materials can combine the strength of run-of-the-mill building materials with the responsiveness of living systems. Think self-healing concrete, paint that changes color when a specific chemical is detected or material that could reproduce and fill in a crack when one forms. This would revolutionize construction and maintenance, with wide-reaching economic and environmental implications.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing this new category of adaptive materials on consumer shelves may be a ways off. Still, critical early research from the University of Minnesota sheds new light on this exciting advancement, which shows promise beyond building materials, including biomedical applications.<\/p>\n<p>In a new study in Nature Communications, researchers from the College of Biological Sciences demonstrate how to transform silica \u2014 a common material used in plaster and other construction materials \u2014 into a self-assembling, dynamic and resilient material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some engineered living materials can combine the strength of run-of-the-mill building materials with the responsiveness of living systems. Think self-healing concrete, paint that changes color when a specific chemical is detected or material that could reproduce and fill in a crack when one forms. This would revolutionize construction and maintenance, with wide-reaching economic and environmental [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132843","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\/429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}