The future of fashion: Colorifix
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- Опубліковано 17 кві 2018
- Colorifix aims to create a low-water, pollution-free method of dyeing. Their solution relies on modifying microorganisms using Synthetic Biology such that they can produce, deposit and fix dyes to the fabric. When the cloth is placed in the dye broth, an environmentally benign dye transfer agent is added, causing the microorganisms to bind with the fabric. After the residual liquid is removed, the cloth containing the microorganisms is briefly exposed to heat, causing the cell to rupture and fix the dye onto the fabric.
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This is brilliant so much better than all the pollution caused by dyeing
seems nice, hope it works out and it does all the things they say it will.
This is SO AMAZING.
This is AMAZING
Great!
this is very very cool
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I'm curious how expensive using synthetic microorganisms is compared to the current dye industry's methods.
Sostache its actually a lot cheaper, but you have to license the tech and the seed stock from the company, (thanks to their conservative licensing policy you cant have the tech, exept for high profile designer clothings)
Galib Mahfuzullah - I imagine as time goes on they’ll be able to eventually benefit from the economies of scale and then we’ll see this in more widespread use. I think it’s a brilliant technology and I’ve no doubt it will be a success... how long that takes is the real question. It’s funny, as this reminded me of a friend who is an aquaculturist, he grows baby clams and scallops (and other bivalves) and sells them, one million at a time (they are super teeny-tiny at that point, that million could easily fit on a penny), to auquaculture farms. The remembrance was because of the algae he uses to feed them and it’s a unique strain he developed for the task. What this reminds me is of one time when his facility burned to the ground, he was able to repopulate new *_massive_* tanks with the algae from just a few drops that had escaped the fire.
“There has to be a better way!!!”