Breaking the mould: How self-healing technology could revolutionise construction

Posted on 16 Apr 2020 by The Manufacturer

The self-healing market is a motivating technological development, but there are very few companies producing the material. The work led by Dr Lívia Ribeiro de Souza at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, aims to change that. Rory Butler reports.

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“Self-healing for infrastructure is really appealing. If there is a way of investigating how to make infrastructure last longer or to not require external intervention for repair, it seems like a very good idea to me – and when we think about CO2 emissions, cement production is responsible for almost 10% of all CO2 release.”…