AI-designed concrete could soon allow for self-healing roads that can repair cracks and prevent potholes completely.

Self-healing roads might seem like something we could have in the future, but scientists and Google are working on making it ...

Could so-called ‘hot mixing’, with pockets of reactive lime clasts inside the cured concrete provide self-healing properties? At its core, this is the recipe which any hydraulic cement uses ...

This everyday miracle is what inspired [Congrui Jin] to try to find a way to make concrete self-healing. The answer she and her colleagues are working on might surprise you. They are adding fungus ...

This new concrete is not only self-heating, it's self-healing, which could solve a multitude of problems we see out on the roads. “What can I say, I have to be out on it, but they are terrible ...

We toss the BioFibers into the mix and spread them out as the concrete is mixed, ensuring they're evenly distributed throughout the mixture. Once the self-healing process ends and the bacteria ...

The lime clasts resulting from hot mixing imparted self-healing properties to the concrete. When cracks formed, they preferentially traveled to the lime clasts due to their higher surface area.

Students may have found a solution, with the invention of a new type of concrete. This new concrete is not only self-heating, it's self-healing, which could solve a multitude of problems we see out on ...