Active Biopaste for Coral Reef Restoration.

ABSTRACT: Preserving coral reefs is crucial for safeguarding marine biodiversity, global ecosystems, and coastal communities. Coral restoration focuses on farming and transplanting corals back onto reefs. However, traditional attachment methods, such as petroleum-based epoxy, pose environmental risks or provide inefficient affixation. Moreover, maximizing coral growth while farming boosts the restoration rate of the reefs. Hence, an environmentally friendly, conductive hardening bicomponent paste is developed to transplant and anchor corals, provide them with a solid growing substrate, and enable mineral accretion technology (MAT), a strategy to accelerate coral farming. The bicomponent paste consists of bio-based and biodegradable acrylate soybean oil matrix and graphene nanoplatelets fillers. The

SUBMITTER: Corigliano G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12464626 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature