#starcrete — Public Fediverse posts
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#NYT 📆 Oct. 1, 2023 #3Dprinting houses 🏘️ in #DeepSpace 🌌
“Chemistry is the same up there, but physics are different”. #NASA scientists are currently working to perfect a simulated lunar 🌙 #concrete that can stand in for the #moon-made material while they run tests on earth. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/realestate/nasa-homes-moon-3-d-printing.html
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🏗️ #Lunar and #Martian #StarCrete achieved compressive strengths of 91.7 and 72.0 MPa, respectively, which is well within the domain of high-strength concrete (>42 MPa). Made from 🥔 starch + regolith. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/eng-2022-0390/html
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#NASA / #University of #Nebraska 📆 Jan 9, 2023 #Mars #habitat outfitting can be realized by insitu construction using #cyanobacteria 🦠 and #fungi 🍄 as building agents. Synthetic biology toolkits will be employed to create a synthetic #lichen🌱 system, composed of diazotrophic cyanobacteria and filamentous fungi, to produce abundant #biominerals (calcium carbonate) and #biopolymers, which will glue #Martian #regolith into consolidated building #blocks. These #selfgrowing building blocks can later be assembled into various #structures https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/Biomineralization_Enabled_Self_Growing_Building_Blocks/
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