Sunday 7 November 2010

Synthetic Biology: Living Buildings May Help Fight Global Warming






Protocell drivers in flask at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010. Credit: University of Greenwich

".. Researchers from the University of Greenwich, the University of Southern Denmark, University of Glasgow and University College London are working with an architectural firm and a building materials manufacturer to use protocells - bubbles of oil in an aqueous fluid sensitive to light or different chemicals – to fix carbon from the atmosphere or to create a coral-like skin, which could protect buildings.."