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03/10/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Ultra-high performance concrete accidentally discovered when they added recycled, milled glass

Lithuanian researchers have accidentally hit upon a winning recipe for cheap yet strong and environment-friendly building materials. By combining locally available resources and recycled materials – milled glass, to be precise – they’ve come up with ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) that matches the strength of its regular counterparts at half the cost, reported an AlphaGalileo article. When […]

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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