{"id":35036,"date":"2017-03-03T17:23:31","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T01:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/researchers-remotely-control-sequence-in-which-2-d-sheets-fold-into-3d-structures"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:10:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:10:28","slug":"researchers-remotely-control-sequence-in-which-2-d-sheets-fold-into-3d-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/researchers-remotely-control-sequence-in-which-2-d-sheets-fold-into-3d-structures","title":{"rendered":"Researchers remotely control sequence in which 2-D sheets fold into 3D structures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q-Xc490Bltw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Inspired by origami, North Carolina State University researchers have found a way to remotely control the order in which a two-dimensional (2-D) sheet folds itself into a three-dimensional (3D) structure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA longstanding challenge in the field has been finding a way to control the sequence in which a 2-D sheet will fold itself into a 3D object,\u201d says Michael Dickey, a professor of chemical and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/biomolecular+engineering\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">biomolecular engineering<\/a> at NC State and co-corresponding author of a paper describing the work. \u201cAnd as anyone who has done origami \u2014 or folded their laundry\u2014can tell you, the order in which you make the folds can be extremely important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sequence of folding is important in life as well as in technology,\u201d says co-corresponding author Jan Genzer, the S. Frank and Doris Culberson Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NC State. \u201cOn small length scales, sequential folding via molecular machinery enables DNA to pack efficiently into chromosomes and assists proteins to adopt a functional conformation. On large length scales, sequential folding via motors helps solar panels in satellites and space shuttles unfold in space. The advance of the current work is to induce materials to fold sequentially using only <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/light\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">light<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/m.phys.org\/news\/2017-03-remotely-sequence-d-sheets.html\">https:\/\/m.phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;03-remotely-sequence-d-sheets.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by origami, North Carolina State University researchers have found a way to remotely control the order in which a two-dimensional (2-D) sheet folds itself into a three-dimensional (3D) structure. \u201cA longstanding challenge in the field has been finding a way to control the sequence in which a 2-D sheet will fold itself into a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,4,2028,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-nanotechnology","category-satellites","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58510,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35036\/revisions\/58510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}