You might not actually break your mother’s back if you step on a crack on the sidewalk, but cracks and holes in concrete are a persistent and expensive problem in the construction industry. Despite ...

Years of research into a type of concrete that can fills its own cracks may be coming to fruition as the material's creators prepare for real-world testing. If demonstrated successfully, the ...

In hopes of producing concrete structures that can repair their cracks, researchers from Drexel University's College of Engineering are putting a new twist on an old trick for improving the durability ...

Concrete is an excellent and versatile material, but it's not without its limitations. One of the biggest problems materials scientists are keen to find a workaround for is its brittleness. Concrete ...

Sidewalks, subway stairs, and parking garages hardly feel like the epitome of modern design, but the material they're made from is really quite remarkable. You might think that concrete feels too ...

I worked on a similar project in college using Psudomonas aurigninosa as the organism. We were trying to engineer it for precipitate carbonate into it's biofilm, and use it as a sprayable concrete ...