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MPS Faculty Gregory Bonito: New 'living' wood could be an environmental superhero

MSU and Purdue researchers team up to create a new type of strong, sustainable, self-healing timber infused with microbes

Michigan State University and Purdue University are teaming up to create a new building material that sounds like something out of a comic book. It’ll be stronger than steel and have the power to heal itself while pulling greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere.

As fantastic — or amazing or uncanny — as that might sound, this new material won’t rely on alien technology or supernatural forces. It will, instead, leverage the very natural forces of microbes and timber.

Read the full story on MSUToday.