A new type of self-healing concrete has debuted in the U.S. market. The concrete, which is called Basilisk Self-Healing Concrete, gets its self-healing properties from bacteria that is mixed into it.

Self-healing materials sound like something straight out of a science fiction novel or comic book, right? Because unless those materials are "alive" in some sort of fashion, they can never really ...

A team of researchers from MIT, Harvard University, as well as laboratories in Italy and Switzerland, might have found an answer in the ingredients and methods the ancient Romans used to mix their ...

RIT Assistant Professor Ahmad Kirmani from the School of Chemistry and Materials Science is the lead author on a paper recently published in Nature Communications. Kirmani’s research is helping to ...

A couple of years ago, collaborative research courtesy of experts at Harvard, MIT, and Swiss labs revealed something extraordinary. They found that the concrete used by Romans had self-healing ...

Metal-halide perovskite, a next-generation semiconductor material, exhibits self-healing properties after exposure to high-energy proton radiation, recovering from damage induced by low-energy protons ...

Hydrogels, soft and water-rich materials, have long fascinated researchers because of their potential in medical and ...

The Pantheon's dome, the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world, is still standing despite being nearly 2,000 years old. Stephen Knowles Photography via Getty Images Ancient Roman ...