{"id":193983,"date":"2024-08-03T12:26:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T17:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/engineers-explore-cellulose-nanofibrils-to-enhance-3d-printed-concrete"},"modified":"2024-08-03T12:26:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T17:26:17","slug":"engineers-explore-cellulose-nanofibrils-to-enhance-3d-printed-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/engineers-explore-cellulose-nanofibrils-to-enhance-3d-printed-concrete","title":{"rendered":"Engineers explore cellulose nanofibrils to enhance 3D-printed concrete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/engineers-explore-cellulose-nanofibrils-to-enhance-3d-printed-concrete2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by engineers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science is the first to explore how an emerging plant-based material, cellulose nanofibrils, could amplify the benefits of 3D-printed concrete technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe improvements we saw on both printability and mechanical measures suggest that incorporating cellulose nanofibrils in commercial printable materials could lead to more resilient and eco-friendly construction practices sooner rather than later,\u201d said Osman E. Ozbulut, a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>His team\u2019s findings will be published in the September 2024 issue of Cement and Concrete Composites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by engineers at the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science is the first to explore how an emerging plant-based material, cellulose nanofibrils, could amplify the benefits of 3D-printed concrete technology. \u201cThe improvements we saw on both printability and mechanical measures suggest that incorporating cellulose nanofibrils in commercial printable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193983","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}