Researchers from Britain's Lancaster University have been using a food blender to mix the root vegetable particles, or nano platelets, of carrots with concrete, in an effort to produce a stronger and environmentally-friendly product. According to lead researcher Mohamed Saafi the strength of concrete increased by 80% when adding their new material mix.
The carrot mix helps prevents concrete cracking and with less cement required, also lowers carbon dioxide emissions. All the vegetables used in their research comes from recycled food waste. While testing still continues, the mixture was to found to out-perform all commercially available cement additives, such as graphene and carbon nanotubes.
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