'Self-healing' house in Greece will dare to defy nature
A high-tech villa designed to resist earthquakes by ‘self-healing’ cracks in its own walls and monitoring vibrations through an intelligent sensor network will be built on a Greek mountainside. The University of Leeds’ NanoManufacturing Institute (NMI) will play a crucial role in the 9.5 million European Union-funded project by developing special walls for the house [...]