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MasterChef inspires engineer to cook up a recipe for self-healing roads

Posted by Anthony Davis

|December 14, 2017

MasterChef inspires engineer to cook up a recipe for self-healing roads

Dr Alvaro Garcia, a lecturer with the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham, has hit on a recipe for success by drawing inspiration from the Spanish vers...

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