[Ads-l] bioconcrete - 1994

[Barretts Mail]

According to the URL date, in 10 days, Mashable will release a video by Nikolay Nikolov about bioconcrete (https://on.mash.to/2H76jQP <https://on.mash.to/2H76jQP>). 

Although Wikipedia has a section titled “bioconcrete” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_lactate#Bioconcrete <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_lactate#Bioconcrete>), the sources don’t seem to include that word. The earliest instance I found of this is an English abstract of a Japanese patent in 1994. After that, 2006.

1. 1994
https://bit.ly/2ET28Cj <https://bit.ly/2ET28Cj>
BIOCONCRETE AND BIOPOROUS CONCRETE  
Mitsuru Sasaki

Patent application in Japanese with English abstract

1. April 2006
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16629379 <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16629379>
by Ghosh P, Mandal S, Pal S, Bandyopadhyaya G, Chattopadhyay BD
"Development of bioconcrete material using an enrichment culture of novel thermophilic anaerobic bacteria.”
Indian J Exp Biol

2. 7 March 2016 (major press)
https://cnn.it/2J3ygFy <https://cnn.it/2J3ygFy>
by Andrew Stewart
"The 'living concrete' that can heal itself”
CNN

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"We have invented bioconcrete -- that's concrete that heals itself using bacteria," he says.
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Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA


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