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August 11, 2016

Living Structural Materials Could Open New Horizons for Engineers and Architects
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 10, 2016
The structural materials that are currently used to construct homes, buildings, and infrastructure are expensive to produce and transport, wear out due to age and damage, and have limited ability to respond to changes in their immediate surroundings. Living biological materials-bone, skin, bark, and coral, for example-have attributes that provide advantages over the non-living materials people build with, in that they can be grown where needed, self-repair when damaged, and respond to changes in their s ... read more

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