{"id":12631,"date":"2020-01-28T14:53:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T14:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2020\/01\/28\/how-can-the-military-use-living-bricks-that-can-multiply\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T17:46:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:46:35","slug":"how-can-the-military-use-living-bricks-that-can-multiply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/battlefield-tech\/2020\/01\/28\/how-can-the-military-use-living-bricks-that-can-multiply\/","title":{"rendered":"How can the military use living bricks that multiply?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Concrete erodes. Time and stress and the mere passive forces of being outside pull apart and chip away at stone. In remote or vulnerable environments, where supplies are hard to come by but rocket or mortar attacks are possible, stone structures that protect people may be under more strain. All of this led DARPA to ask the question: What if concrete could heal itself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s the premise behind \u201cEngineered Living Materials\u201d (ELM), a program that seeks a revolution in military logistics \u201cby developing living biomaterials that combine the structural properties of traditional building materials with attributes of living systems, including the ability to rapidly grow in situ, self-repair and adapt to the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It seeks, in other words, the utility, strength and rigidity of concrete with the healing properties of plants and the ability to self-replicate structures, like coral colonies stuck on fast-forward, in the middle of a disaster zone. If the military could grow bricks, it could build a workable shelter with a minimum of material. If the military could paint a rigid-yet-living runway onto a remote stretch, it could turn rough rural landings into a reliable air-supply route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In \u201cBiomineralization and Successive Regeneration of Engineered Living Building Materials,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/matter\/fulltext\/S2590-2385(19)30391-1\" target=_blank>published<\/a> Jan. 15 in the journal Matter, a research team led by Wil Srubar of the University of Colorado, Boulder, created a brick of living material. The research was sponsored by DARPA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bricks start with a specific type of cyanobacteria, which absorb carbon dioxide and exude calcium carbonate. Calcium carbonate is a significant part of limestone, regularly used in cement, and its origins, too, are organic, with its formation dating back to the fossilization of ancient corals and shells. This bacteria, when combined with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/today\/2020\/01\/15\/building-materials-come-alive\" target=\"_blank\">sand-and-gelatin scaffolding<\/a>, holds it together into a brick form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers split the first brick in half and combined the halves with the same scaffolding. Those bricks regrew into two bricks, and then the researchers did it twice more, creating a total of eight bricks from one initial construct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the research is still early, and the conditions of a lab are a far cry from the isolated areas where such material might be most in demand, the ability to grow a self-healing building material from bacteria and sand could have huge implications for the logistics loads. In already sand-rich environments, the living material could lighten the burden of initial supply and difficult resupply. In the rubble after a disaster, humans could use living bricks and existing material to rebuild shelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As if that is not ambitious enough, DARPA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/program\/engineered-living-materials\" target=\"_blank\">wants<\/a> the living materials to \u201chave the ability to respond to their environment in designed ways,\u201d including detection of hazardous compounds. A sensing, self-healing, minimal supply base feels like something out of an alien army in science fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But the future of the forward operating base is very much alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineered living materials are a possible solution to concrete scarcity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":39410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":7,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[7,106,29,32],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3021],"class_list":["post-12631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battlefield-tech","category-daily-brief","category-home","category-newsletters"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"BQ7NZJGUPNEXJK4RSWIVCISO6Q","arc_canonical_url":"\/battlefield-tech\/2020\/01\/28\/how-can-the-military-use-living-bricks-that-can-multiply\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How can the military use living bricks that multiply? - C4ISRNet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Engineered living materials are a possible solution to concrete scarcity.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How can the military use living bricks that multiply?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Engineered living materials are a possible solution to concrete scarcity.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/battlefield-tech\/2020\/01\/28\/how-can-the-military-use-living-bricks-that-can-multiply\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"C4ISRNet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-01-28T14:53:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-08T17:46:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kelsey D. 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