Samoustraniajutsia concrete is preparing to enter the market

Concrete is the world's most popular building material. Ever since the Romans began to build their own pantheons of about 2 millennia years ago, mankind has been looking for ways to make concrete more durable. But no matter how carefully mixed solution, or is the reinforcement of the concrete structure eventually covered with cracks and become useless.

Specialists of the Delft technical University in the Netherlands found a solution to this problem. They created a bio-concrete, which is able to recover itself. Cracks in this case are promptly addressed with the help of special bacteria.

Procedure for the preparation of the solution an innovative self-healing concrete does not differ from the standard. Unless you add the additional ingredient in the form of capsules with spores of the bacteria. These bacteria thrive in an alkaline environment. Living organisms are in a state of suspended animation for many decades without food (calcium lactate) and oxygen. They are activated when water enters the cracks.

Work on the project started back in 2006. And now researchers are finally nearing commercialization of their developments. We hope that our concrete home learn how to get rid of the cracks in the very near future.published

 



Source: green-dom.info/