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Interesting Engineering
Self-healing concrete uses synthetic lichen to repair cracks with air and sunlight
Interesting Engineering • May 8, 2025Led by Congrui Grace Jin, PhD, an assistant professor at Texas A&M University, the team designed the innovative system that mimics the natural symbiosis found in lichens by using filamentous fungi and cyanobacteria, one of the oldest photosynthetic prokaryotes on the planet also known as blue-green algae.