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Sources:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-most-destructive-material-on-earth
https://www.rsc.org/images/construction_tcm18-114530.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4827669/
https://www.cnn.com/2015/05/14/tech/bioconcrete-delft-jonkers/index.html
https://www.tudelft.nl/en/ceg/research/stories-of-science/self-healing-of-concrete-by-bacterial-mineral-precipitation/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-39156-8
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https://www.epo.org/learning-events/european-inventor/finalists/2015/jonkers.html
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