A scientific team in Tianjin, China, published an epoch-making achievement in the international academic journal Science: the first successful synthesis of artificial starch. This achievement is the crystallization of the scientific research team's efforts and exploration for 6 years, and has great scientific significance and application prospects.
Press Release A disruptive technology is recognized by the international academic community as having a significant impact on the world. Artificial food has been born, which will hopefully solve the global hunger crisis!
Starch is the main component of food, and it is also an indispensable raw material for modern industry and technology. Our traditional starch extraction method mainly relies on natural photosynthesis to extract carbohydrates from crops through carbon dioxide, water and sunlight.
However, this approach has limitations in terms of efficiency and yield. Today, however, we have succeeded in developing an artificial food technology that enables the industrial production of starch.
This technological breakthrough can not only improve the yield and quality of starch, but also solve the global food crisis. The advent of this artificial food technology marks that we have entered a new era.
In the future, we can foresee the emergence of more disruptive technologies that will change our lives and the world.
Scientists spent 6 years of uninterrupted research, using chemical catalysis and biological module catalysis methods, successfully changed the traditional starch synthesis steps, and introduced a series of conversion methods of "light energy-electrical energy-chemical energy", which improved the efficiency of starch conversion and reduced energy consumption.
Reconstructed Copy: The research team has successfully developed a shortest synthetic path from carbon dioxide to starch, which can be achieved in only 11 steps of reaction.
Most strikingly, synthetic starch no longer relies on extraction from crops, but is directly converted into starch through carbon dioxide, which undergoes various conversions such as light energy and chemical energy in the process.
Although this energy conversion may seem complex, it is undoubtedly a transcendent technological breakthrough compared to the more than 60-step metabolic reaction required for traditional starch extraction.
In addition, it has an energy efficiency conversion rate of 3 percent more than before5 times, which makes the production of starch both efficient and simple. So, what is the scientific significance of synthetic starch?
In the near future, the way food is produced will be revolutionized. It will be possible to produce food in the laboratory, which will effectively promote the increase of food production.
According to a report published by the United Nations, a large number of people around the world are still hungry, and this number is growing rapidly, and we need to find a solution now.
Laboratory-made food will provide an important guarantee for human food security and make our dining table more abundant.