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Welcome to our Projects BiOrigami

See our projects below

Our Vision to create biological origami aka BiOrigami

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Our BioBricks

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How? with heat, evaporation, and materials that could be produced in space.

Bacteria can produce thermoplastics and cellulose, which can be folded with heat and evaporation. Selectively heating certain parts of a thermoplastic sheet causes the polymers in only that area to contract, causing a macro-scale fold of the sheet. This selective heating can be done by coloring parts of the sheet darker, so they absorb heat faster. As for the evaporation method, bacterial spores expand and contract when in the presence of different levels of relative humidity. Attaching many spores to a long cellulose sheet can cause it to contract, and placing many of these sheets in parallel gives them the ability to move a large amount of weight as the water from the spores evaporates and they all contract in unison.

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Polystyrene Engineering E. coli to produce polystyrene

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Polyhydroxyalkanoates Optimizing the production of biological PHA

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C.A.S.H. Cellulose Associated Spore HYDRAS, or a biological contractile mechanism

Based on work done by Chen et al. at Columbia university, we sought to employ the contractile properties of bacterial spores to use as a contractile mechanism for biOrigami.

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CRATER Crisper Assisted Transformation Efficient Reaction

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