The bio structures and advanced organic technology

The bio structures and advanced organic technology

Those things are the ideas, what the futurologists have created when they have created an idea of the use of organic material in the space technology. Sometimes people have thought that could it possible to use organisms as diatoms for creating the materials, what can repair themselves. The diatoms are organisms, what outer layer is created by silicone and if we are thinking about the forms of those organisms, they could sometimes be like Lego-bricks, which can put easily to their places.

In this case, the nanotechnology would help the structure forming itself. In this scenario, the spider-shaped robots would create the net, and then other robots would put the diatoms in their places, and that thing would close the damage. This kind of thing is only one version of the bio structures, which is planned to use in the structures from the deepest points from the sea to space.

What if the planks can grow autonomously over the damage?

The idea of using the genetically engineered bio material fro creating the structures is simple, create the cells, what are creating layers, and those cells can be taken from the trees. The idea is that manipulated cells would form the material like a plank, which can grow itself over the hole, and the net of the mycelium would be used to make the stay layer below this layer.

But what if we could manipulate the mycelium of the fungus (1) to create self-repairing structures? That network would make possible to create the supporting framework for the wood cells. 

The idea is to create the organism, which would grow similar cells with diatoms, but the outer layer would be metallic. The thing that this kind of cell must sense is the airflow or pressure, and then it must grow to the point, where it feels the airflow, and when it would end, the structure would be finished. Or the other way is to use some kind of robot, which would pull the mycelium structure in the right direction. And when the structure is ready, the cells would fill the holes. Or there could be the layer, which would create a wooden surface below the layer of the fungus.

Another and farther going visions are including the genetically manipulated organisms, like fungus, what can create the layer what is forming by silicone, or maybe someday is possible to create artificial organisms, what is forming the outer layer of their cells by using metal atoms, and if the replacement of the silicone would happen by iron, titanium or wolfram or some other metal that thing would make the mycelium of the fungus very hard. This thing can make possible to create the material, which repairs itself.

(1)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycelium

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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Diatom2.jpg/600px-Diatom2.jpg