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. 2013 Oct 29;4:314. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00314

Table 2.

Overview of different applications where microbial calcite is used as biocement in cementitious materials.

Application Organism Solution Author
Cement mortar Bacillus cereus Nutrical Calcite bioconcept Le Metayer-Levrel et al., 1999
Bacillus pasteurii SF Stocks-Fischer et al., 1999; Ramachandran, 2001
Remediation of cracks in concrete Bacillus sphaericus Growth and biocementation medium De Belie and De Muynck, 2008
Bacillus pasteurii SF Ramachandran, 2001
Shewanella Sterile Ghosh et al., 2005
Sporosarcina pasteurii CSL urea medium, LML urea medium NB urea medium Mukherjee et al., 2010
Self-healing Bacillus pseudifirmus Bacillus cophnii Calcium lactate Jonkers, 2007