{"id":26242,"date":"2016-05-31T09:32:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T16:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/finding-a-new-formula-for-concrete"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:41:51","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:41:51","slug":"finding-a-new-formula-for-concrete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/finding-a-new-formula-for-concrete","title":{"rendered":"Finding a New Formula for Concrete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/finding-a-new-formula-for-concrete.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" alt=\"\u201cIf we can replace cement, partially or totally, with some other materials that may be readily and amply available in nature, we can meet our objectives for sustainability,\u201d MIT Professor Oral Buyukozturk says. Image: Christine Daniloff\/MIT\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/finding-a-new-formula-for-concrete.jpg\" \/>Researchers at MIT are seeking to redesign concrete \u2014 the most widely used human-made material in the world \u2014 by following nature\u2019s blueprints.<\/p>\n<p>In a paper published online in the journal <em>Construction and Building Materials,<\/em> the team contrasts cement paste \u2014 concrete\u2019s binding ingredient \u2014 with the structure and properties of natural materials such as bones, shells, and deep-sea sponges. As the researchers observed, these biological materials are exceptionally strong and durable, thanks in part to their precise assembly of structures at multiple length scales, from the molecular to the macro, or visible, level.<\/p>\n<p>From their observations, the team, led by Oral Buyukozturk, a professor in MIT\u2019s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), proposed a new bioinspired, \u201cbottom-up\u201d approach for designing cement paste.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificcomputing.com\/news\/2016\/05\/finding-new-formula-concrete\">http:\/\/www.scientificcomputing.com\/news\/2016\/05\/finding-new-formula-concrete<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at MIT are seeking to redesign concrete \u2014 the most widely used human-made material in the world \u2014 by following nature\u2019s blueprints. In a paper published online in the journal Construction and Building Materials, the team contrasts cement paste \u2014 concrete\u2019s binding ingredient \u2014 with the structure and properties of natural materials such as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26242","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50349,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26242\/revisions\/50349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}