Is this fungi-infused varnish the answer to self-repairing façades?
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Frans van Rooijen, Dr Michael Sailer
It looks familiar – blackened wood that could be charred timber – but sounds like something out of science fiction: a varnish made with fungi that can repair itself when damaged.
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