BACTERIAL GROWTH INDUCED BIOCEMENTATION TECHNOLOGY, 'SPACE BRICK' - A PROPOSAL FOR EXPERIMENT AT MICROGRAVITY AND PLANETARY ENVIRONMENTS
A. Kumar, R. Dikshit, N. Gupta, A. Jain, A. Dey, A. Nandi, I. Venugopal, K. Viswanathan, N. Sridhara, A. Rajendra
The paper investigates microbial induced calcite precipitation for manufacturing space bricks and proposes experiments in low-earth orbit using lunar simulant soil.
bioRxiv · Jan 22, 2020 · PreprintBioengineering