Grad Student Designs Self-Healing Concrete - KickingTires

Grad Student Designs Self-Healing Concrete - KickingTires
What if the solution to potholes was simply using concrete that fixed itself?
That’s the idea behind University of Rhode Island grad student Michelle Pelletier’s concrete concoction. By mixing a microencapsulated sodium silicate agent into normal concrete, Pelletier created a road material that can regain 26% of its original composition after being fractured.