Imagine bacteria heals the concrete cracks without human intervention

These two attributes are being carried out by some of the tiny smart materials that can alter and adapt to their environment.

Energized by living things, they have the potential to remodel the way we live, according to a new study. But according to the documents from the UK’s Royal Society, supervisions are necessary to avoid unintended upshots.

Although some ‘sentient’ materials like self-repairing paints, concretes are already being used in the commercial products but more applications are one the development.

"This is a really important century for us. We are going from an inanimate view of materials, where we make them, they are sophisticated but they fall apart and then we replace them, to a more biological view of the stuff we are going to make," said Prof Mark Miodownik, one of the report's co-chairs.

There are two different procedures for self healing concrete. One uses the planted capsules while the damages are visible.

Another procedure of the self healing concrete also uses capsules but here the job is done by bacteria. When the concrete cracks mineral calcites are being released by the bacteria to cure the damage.

The technology is already on the trail on the roads of UK.