Living Materials Laboratory:
Project
Project:
Living Light, Living Surfaces, and Living Structures for Space Architecture
Current Challenge
Building structures on Earth and beyond should not preclude the use of embedded living entities capable of providing a service to the building or its inhabitants.
Research Goal
The primary objectives of this project are to engineer living materials that are capable of (1) producing living light by leveraging the natural process of bioluminescence, (2) removing H2O, CO2, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from indoor air, and (3) biomineralizing lunar and Martian regolith in microgravity for new applications in space architecture.
Sponsor
Schmidt Sciences