Team:NEYCFLS China/Awards
This page is dedicated to reorganizing the entire website by medal, instead of our own logistics.
Criteria: Convince the judges that you have completed the following Competition
Deliverables:
Wiki, Judging Form, Presentation Video
“This year, we know many teams will not have experimental data available for their Parts.”
Since its emergence in December 2019, Covid-19 has become a global threat, infecting hundreds of millions, and affecting billions. To help lower the risk of being infected while outdoors, NEYCFLS_China introduces to you: Argentum Nanoparticle Tie-dyeing Indigo against Virus (ANTI-Virus). Inspired by the traditional Chinese methods of tie-dyeing, we will use E.Coli to produce indigo, modify the indigo with silver nanoparticles, and apply the modified dye to the most outer layer of surgical masks. The masks dyed with ANTI-Virus will prevent the viruses and bacteria in the air from adhering to the masks and kill those that somehow find a way to stay on masks, all when retaining the mask’s electric discharge and polypropylene network.
-Track selection: All High School teams compete in the High School track in 2021.
Criteria: Describe what work your team members did and what other people did for your project.
In this page, we included a full list of the work our teammates did, and also the help we had received from people outside the team.
Criteria: Describe how and why you chose your iGEM project.
This section includes the background of our project (Covid-19 and viruses), the object (masks) we are working on, and our solution. This is a more detailed and data-based description than our abstract.
Criteria: Make a useful contribution for future iGEM teams.
In this page, we documented troubleshooting, most of the problems we ran into, including those we solved completely and those that we could only find mediocre solutions to.
In this page, we introduced minutely all of the strains and genes that we (theoretically) worked on during the course of iGEM 2021. Because we were not able to get in a laboratory, we could only get the genetic information and strain names from articles we bought from Google Scholar.
Criteria: Demonstrate engineering success in a part of your project by going through at least one iteration of the engineering design cycle. This achievement should be distinct from your Contribution for Bronze.
e.g. Design → Build → Test → Learn → Design…
This page explains (implicitly) how we were able put together multiple loops to complete our project.
Loop 1: We found a possible compound of dye that was responsible for coloring the cloth
(learn) —> We designed a method of extracting the component (design) —> We put together the solutions and apparatus for extraction (build) —> We put the cloth in then tested the concentration (test)
Loop 2: We designed a way to test the ATCC 25922 after the cloth was put in the Petri dish (design) —> We put together the solutions and apparatus for concentration testing (build) —> We put the cloth in then tested the concentration (test) —> We found some minor problems in our test results and were able to find problems with our testing methods (learn) …
Criteria: Collaborate with one (or more) 2021 iGEM team(s) in a meaningful way.
This section documents our activity in the collaborations page, our participation in the Duke x DKU mini Jamboree, and survey exchange with Stanford.
Criteria: Explain how you have determined your work is responsible and good for the world.
In this page, we put together our reasons for wearing masks, the impact of Covid-19 and why a mask that uses ANTI-Virus can be good for the world.
Criteria: Explain how you would implement your project in the real world.
In this page, we discussed how we think we should implement the ANTI-Virus dye in the real world, how we should start with masks, why we think using AgNP is a good idea, and how we would return the favor to traditional Chinese tie dyeing methods.
Criteria: Demonstrate how your team responded to your human practices reflections, research, and/or engagement. You should show how your activities impacted your project purpose, design and/or execution.
This section of our webpage introduces how we were able use the data given by our HP team on our experiments and research. According to our survey, the maximum price that we were allowed to put on every mask was 4 Chinese yuan. This our computer models computed the maximum effective that we could get using 4 yuan, and returned the masses of AgNP and indigo we should use to get the max efficiency.
In addition, according to our survey with the artisans, the main dyeing ingredient in the dyes that they used was indigo. This gave our chemical research a clear objective instead of searching frantically for all possible blue compounds.
Most importantly, our HP work on Covid-19 led us to come up with the idea of using ANTI-Virus on masks to fight the virus and other pathogens transmitting using similar methods.
Criteria: Use modeling to gain insight into how your project works or should be implemented. Explain your model's assumptions, data, parameters, and results in a way that anyone could understand.
Our first model aims at explaining how the patterns are formed, and estimating the time needed to dye masks with different textures. The second model estimates and helps visualize the effectiveness of the mask against viruses and bacteria. Our third model comes in when we have the results from our survey on the suitable price for our masks, and the relationship between concentrations and effectiveness.
Criteria: Expand upon your Silver medal work for Proposed Implementation and develop a proof of concept for your project.
In our description and experiment, we talked about indigo as a major dyeing compound, and in our implementation, we talked about using AgNP as a disinfecting agent. The proof of concept section discusses the mechanisms of these two.
Criteria: Collaborate throughout the year with at least one other 2021 iGEM team on a set of shared objectives related to both of your projects. This partnership should go beyond a Silver medal collaboration.
During iGEM 2021, we were trained by the team Open Science Global. We also provided information and feedback on our project, which actively used the methods provided by their team.
Criteria: Demonstrate excellence in another area related to synthetic biology.
We created art pieces…with biosynthetic dyes!!!