Smart bricks would enable walls capable of generating electricity, clean water and oxygen

A lot of things are becoming "smart" these days, but bricks might not be something you’d expect to be added to the list. On the way to buildings that act like "large-scale living organisms," scientists at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) are developing smart bricks that would make use of microbes to recycle wastewater, generate electricity and produce oxygen.

Michael Irving

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