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Self-healing asphalt uses plant spores to keep potholes from forming

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Self-healing asphalt uses plant spores to keep potholes from forming in asphalt roads.

Researchers from Swansea University and King's College London in the UK , working with colleagues from the University of Bío-Bío in Chile .

Spores from stag's horn clubmoss plant ruptured and released sunflower oil rejuvenated the oxidized bitumen.

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