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01/25/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Self-healing fungi concrete may be a sustainable solution for America’s crumbling infrastructure

A team of researchers from Binghamton University has developed a self-healing fungi concrete. In collaboration with scientists from the State University of New York, the team hopes that their creation can save America’s infrastructure by permanently repairing cracks. The researchers used Trichoderma reesei, a fungus which they mixed with concrete. They discovered that the fungi […]

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