{"id":92260,"date":"2019-06-17T15:25:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T22:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/scientists-create-innovative-new-green-concrete-using-graphene"},"modified":"2019-06-17T15:25:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T22:25:48","slug":"scientists-create-innovative-new-green-concrete-using-graphene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/scientists-create-innovative-new-green-concrete-using-graphene","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create innovative new \u2018green\u2019 concrete using graphene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-innovative-new-green-concrete-using-graphene2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new greener, stronger and more durable concrete that is made using the wonder-material graphene could revolutionise the construction industry.<\/p>\n<p>Experts from the University of Exeter have developed a pioneering <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/new+technique\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">new technique<\/a> that uses nanoengineering technology to incorporate graphene into traditional concrete production.<\/p>\n<p>The new composite material, which is more than twice as strong and four times more water resistant than existing concretes, can be used directly by the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/construction\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">construction<\/a> industry on building sites. All of the concrete samples tested are according to British and European standards for construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new greener, stronger and more durable concrete that is made using the wonder-material graphene could revolutionise the construction industry. Experts from the University of Exeter have developed a pioneering new technique that uses nanoengineering technology to incorporate graphene into traditional concrete production. The new composite material, which is more than twice as strong and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92260","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}