Media

Dutch Newspapers

NL / Het Parool (30-05-2015) Beton herstelt zichzelf met bacterien / Joost Zonneveld

NL / Telegraaf (09-05-2015) Slim beton

NL / Nederlands Dagblad (8/9/2012) Zelfhelend materiaal / Imco Lanting

NL / Het Parool (8/9/2012) Biobeton repareert scheuren zelf / Imco Lanting

NL / Volkskrant (17/2/2009) Bouwmateriaal krijgt frivole trekjes / Wouter Keuning

NL / Reformatorisch Dagblad (12/8/2008) Aanmaak van kalksteen zorgt voor herstel scheuren - Bacteriën tegen betonrot / W.J. Eradus

NL / Trouw (3/4/2008) Het nut van bacteriën - biologisch beton / Joep Engels

NL / NRC Handelsblad (1-2/3/2008) Bacteriebeton leeft langer / Michiel van Nieuwstadt

(Inter)national Popular / technical magazines

NL / Technisch Weekblad (Juli 2012) Succes voor zelfhelend beton - Praktijktest geslaagd / Thomas van de Sandt

NL / De Architect (Maart 2012) Zelfherstellend beton / Merel Pit

NL / CoBouw (30 November 2011) Eerste zelfherstellend beton toegepast / Frans van Velden

NL / Kijk (Januari 2009) Genezende materialen / Bennie Mols

NL / ‘EOS’ (April 2008) Bacteriën als bouwvakkers

NL / De Ingenieur (Maart 2008) Bacteriën voorkomen betonrot

NL / BioNieuws (2/2/2008) Zelfhelend beton: een cadeautje van de natuur / Jeroen Scharroo

NL / Civiele Techniek, nummer 5 (2006) Biologisch beton dicht zijn eigen scheuren

BE / Planète Géotechnique - La Libre Belgique (jeudi 6 décembre 2012) Le béton colmate ses brèches / Caroline Grimberghs

UK / Daily Mail Online (27-05-2015) Self-healing concrete containing bacteria

UK / Mail Online (27-05-2015) No more potholes! 'Living' concrete heals itself using bacteria when it comes into contact with water / Victoria Woollaston

UK / International business times (15-05-2015) Self-healing bio-concrete uses bacteria to repair itself / Anthony Cuthbertson

UK / Bridge Design & Engineering (Issue 68 - 2012) Structural healing - Research under way in the Netherlands is demonstrating that bacteria can help concrete to heal itself when cracks appear / Lisa Russell

UK / BBC News website (30 October 2012) Key test for re-healable concrete / Paul Rincon

UK / The Engineer (11 April 2011) Wise crack: Self-healing concrete / Ellie Zolfagharifard

UK / Ingenia (March 2011) Self-healing concrete / Damian Arnold

UK / New Civil Engineer (9/9/2010) Dutch develop self-healing BioConcrete / Declan Lynch

UK / New Scientist (September 2010) For self-healing concrete, just add bacteria and food

UK / Architectural Design (2008) Artificial Evolution

DE / Technology review (2014) Wasserkanal Flickt sich selbst / Ina Vollmer

DE / AutoBild (26 July 2013) Diese Strasse flickt sich selbst- Bakterien reparieren Risse im Beton

DE / Der Spiegel 46 (2012) Selbstheilende Brücke

USA / Wall Street Daily (May 2015) The Amazing “Bioconcrete” That Repairs Itself / Martin Denholm

USA / The Economist (April 2009) Filling in the cracks – How to preserve concrete with bacteria

USA / Civil Engineering – The Magazine of the American Society of Civil Engineers (July/August 2015) Self-healing concrete uses bacteria to repair cracks – David Hill

CAN / Toronto Star (29/5/2015) Could selfhealing concrete save the Gardiner? / David Bateman

JP / Nikkei Construction (22/10/2010) Self-healing BioConcrete [translated]

ESP / Construcción y tecnologia en concreto (Mayo 2012) Bacterias extremófilas que reparan paredes de concreto

COL / El Espectador (22-05-2015) Profesor holandés crea concreto que se repara por sí solo

Popular science and art books

USA / BIOCONCRETE - By ‘healing’ the cracks in concrete, can bacteria increase the lifespan of our buildings—both current and future? In: William Meyers, BioDesign - Nature, Science, Creativity, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA). Bio Design copyright © 2012 Thames & Hudson Ltd, London

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NL / PTT-Post uitgave postzegel in de reeks ‘100 jaar Microbiologie’ (januari 2011): Zelfhelend beton bacterie

Henk Jonkers

Professor


Department:
Materials, Mechanics, Management & Design (3Md)

Section:
Materials and Environment

Chair / Research:
Innovative construction materials & Sustainability 

Secretary: 
Jacqueline van Unen-Bergenhenegouwen