{"id":135731,"date":"2022-02-17T01:22:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T09:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/nano-engineered-sealer-leads-to-more-durable-concrete"},"modified":"2022-02-17T01:22:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T09:22:20","slug":"nano-engineered-sealer-leads-to-more-durable-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/nano-engineered-sealer-leads-to-more-durable-concrete","title":{"rendered":"Nano-engineered sealer leads to more durable concrete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nano-engineered-sealer-leads-to-more-durable-concrete2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A nanomaterials-engineered penetrating sealer developed by Washington State University researchers is able to better protect concrete from moisture and salt\u2014the two most damaging factors in crumbling concrete infrastructure in northern states.<\/p>\n<p>The novel sealer showed a 75% improvement in repelling water and a 44% improvement in reducing salt damage in laboratory studies compared to a commercial sealer. The work could provide an additional way to address the challenge of aging bridges and pavements in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe focused on one of the main culprits that compromises the integrity and durability of concrete, which is moisture,\u201d said Xianming Shi, professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering who led the work. \u201cIf you can keep concrete dry, the vast majority of durability problems would go away.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nanomaterials-engineered penetrating sealer developed by Washington State University researchers is able to better protect concrete from moisture and salt\u2014the two most damaging factors in crumbling concrete infrastructure in northern states. The novel sealer showed a 75% improvement in repelling water and a 44% improvement in reducing salt damage in laboratory studies compared to a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":650,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,269,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-life-extension","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135731","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\/650"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}