{"id":92807,"date":"2019-06-28T07:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T14:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/material-could-help-storm-proof-future-buildings"},"modified":"2019-06-28T07:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T14:42:26","slug":"material-could-help-storm-proof-future-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/material-could-help-storm-proof-future-buildings","title":{"rendered":"Material Could Help Storm-Proof Future Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/material-could-help-storm-proof-future-buildings.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A formerly little-known molecule created in labs by scientists could help future buildings withstand even the most ferocious of storms, <a href=\"https:\/\/stormguardrc.com\/how-to-prepare-for-a-tornado\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tornadoes<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/stormguardrc.com\/how-to-prepare-for-a-hurricane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hurricanes<\/a> by making walls that are virtually indestructible, according to new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dezeen.com\/2018\/05\/03\/graphene-reinforced-concrete-stronger-university-of-exeter-scientists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research<\/a> from a team of British scientists at the University of Exeter.<\/p>\n<p>The substance is known to researchers and construction experts as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/new-green-concrete-could-be-game-changer-construction-industry-ncna870371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">graphene<\/a>, a combination of the prefix graphite and the suffix \u2013ene, coined by the German <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hanns-Peter_Boehm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scientist <\/a>who pioneered it. The product has a wide array of potential <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/9-amazing-graphene-applications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">applications<\/a> including anti-corrosive coatings, lubricants, and motor oils. But in the last two decades, a radical new application has become apparent to those who study this innovative new product. The application of graphene in construction became apparent when researchers established that the inclusion of graphene oxide significantly increases both tensile and compressive strength in concrete composites\u2014in other words, the world\u2019s most common construction material can be fortified to become a kind of \u201csuper-concrete.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A formerly little-known molecule created in labs by scientists could help future buildings withstand even the most ferocious of storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes by making walls that are virtually indestructible, according to new research from a team of British scientists at the University of Exeter. The substance is known to researchers and construction experts as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92807","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=92807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}