Uploaded January 2020 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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Entered into our 2019 ZEISS Photography Competition by Research Student Zijing Li.

This is a video of a self-healing mortar specimen being pumped during the healing process. ‘Blood’ (sodium silicate) was dyed in blue and pumped into vascular-mortar beam. ‘Blood’ was observed being released.