{"id":174188,"date":"2023-10-14T06:17:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T11:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/som-backed-prometheus-materials-turns-algae-like-composite-into-masonry-blocks"},"modified":"2023-10-14T06:17:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T11:17:26","slug":"som-backed-prometheus-materials-turns-algae-like-composite-into-masonry-blocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/som-backed-prometheus-materials-turns-algae-like-composite-into-masonry-blocks","title":{"rendered":"SOM-backed Prometheus Materials turns algae-like composite into masonry blocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/som-backed-prometheus-materials-turns-algae-like-composite-into-masonry-blocks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Colorado-based Prometheus Materials has developed masonry blocks from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/carbon-neutral-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">low-carbon<\/a> cement-like material grown from micro\u2013<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/tag\/algae\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">algae<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The blocks, which meet the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards, were made using an organic cement-like material grown in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bioreactor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bioreactors<\/a> that reproduces itself in ways similar to coral.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCoral reefs, shells, and even the limestone we use to produce cement today show us that nature has already figured out how to bind minerals together in a strong, clever, and efficient way,\u201d said Prometheus Materials co-founder Wil V Srubar III.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado-based Prometheus Materials has developed masonry blocks from a low-carbon cement-like material grown from micro\u2013algae. The blocks, which meet the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards, were made using an organic cement-like material grown in bioreactors that reproduces itself in ways similar to coral. \u201cCoral reefs, shells, and even the limestone we use [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174188","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}