"Learning from bone to engineer tomorrow's more sustainable biocemented materials"
Hosted by ACerS Cements Division
Thursday, March 7, 2024
4p.m. - 5p.m. Eastern US Time
DESCRIPTION
Learning from bone to engineer tomorrow’s more sustainable biocemented materials
Traditional construction materials have an oversized carbon footprint. The use of microbes and biological processes offers many potential advantages for improving the sustainability and functionality of common load-bearing materials. Microbial biocementation has been used to heal cracks, stabilize soils, and bind aggregate to manufacture load-bearing materials. However, several persistent challenges need to be overcome to improve the functionality and sustainability benefits of these biocementation processes. As a living structural material, bone offers inspiration for (1) improving the load-bearing capacity of biocemented structures and (2) improving cellular viability to confer additional functionalities to biocemented engineered living materials.
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Non-member: $30
Non-member student: $15