Team:TU Delft-Leiden

Our project is called ELECTRACE, which stands for ELECtron TRAnsport deviCE. We are going to design an Escherichia coli strain that can detect the chemicals that are secreted by landmines (which are primarily TNT, DNT and DNB) and initiate a current by using electron transport, resulting in the visualisation of landmines in the ground. This can be done by using the relation between the concentration of the detected chemicals and the distance to the landmine. Eventually, we would like to incorporate this into a ready-to-use device. This device will be easily usable for everyone, including children, all over the world.