# A "self-healing" asphalt

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDxDelft
- Speaker: Erik Schlangen
- Year: 2012
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Engineering, Society and politics, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/erik_schlangen_a_self_healing_asphalt)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Paved roads are nice to look at, but they're easily damaged and costly to repair. Erik Schlangen demos a new type of porous asphalt made of simple materials with an astonishing feature: When cracked, it can be "healed" by induction heating.

## Lectures

1. [A "self-healing" asphalt](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/erik_schlangen_a_self_healing_asphalt/29952e2509ca), 7 min (TED's player)