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Now, a joint-development deal with Swedish retailer H&M Group to create low-carbon flooring that could be used in its new stores or to retrofit older shops, shows the outlines of the Research Triangle Park, N.C.-based startups future at a time when more corporations are paying attention to sustainability goals.
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While working as an architecture professor at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, she set up a lab in a spare room to try and grow bio-based concrete.
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In an image made with a scanning electron microscope (at 425 times larger than life), calcium carbonate-emitting microorganisms bind to aggregates to form the structure of Biomason's material.
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With a number of potential customers in Europe in addition to H&M Group, Biomason is now in discussions with a partner that it declines to name about opening a manufacturing facility on the Continent later this year.
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Biomason worked with the federal governments Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on an underwater cement that continues to take CO2 from the sea water and to grow over time.