ArticleiScience2021
Engineering living building materials for enhanced bacterial viability and mechanical properties.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 57 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Potential of Self-Maintainable Living Materials.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Living Hydrogels: Harnessing Microorganism-Material Synergy for Next-Generation Therapeutics.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Probiotic-Based Materials as Living Therapeutics.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2026Review
- Manufacturing of Living Building Materials With Calcifying Cyanobacteria.Bio-protocol · 2025Article
- Calcite precipitation by the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. ATCC 33047.Communications biology · 2025Article
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- 3D Bioprinting of Microbial-based Living Materials for Advanced Energy and Environmental Applications.Chem & bio engineering · 2024Review
- Will tomorrow's mineral materials be grown?Microbial biotechnology · 2023Article
- Microbial applications for sustainable space exploration beyond low Earth orbit.NPJ microgravity · 2023Review
- Five questions on how biochemistry can combat climate change.BBA advances · 2023Article
- Heavy metal bioremediation using microbially induced carbonate precipitation: Key factors and enhancement strategies.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Review
- Engineered Living Hydrogels.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2022Review
- Synthetic biology as driver for the biologization of materials sciences.Materials today. Bio · 2021Review
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Living building materials (LBMs) utilize microorganisms to produce construction materials that exhibit mechanical and biological properties. A hydrogel-based LBM containing bacteria capable of microbially induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP) was recently developed. Here, LBM design factors, i.e., gel/sand ratio, inclusion of trehalose, and MICP pathways, are evaluated. The results show that non-saturated LBM (gel/sand = 0.13) and gel-saturated LBM (gel/sand = 0.30) underwent distinct failure modes. The inclusion of trehalose maintains bacterial viability under ambient conditions with low relative humidity, without affecting mechanical properties of the LBM. Comparison of biotic and abiotic LBM shows that MICP efficiency in this material is subject to the pathway selected: the LBM with heterotrophic ureolytic
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