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Synthesis of starch from carbon dioxide

06.10.2021

Chinese scientists were the first in the world to develop a method for the artificial synthesis of starch from carbon dioxide.

Starch is an essential component of cereals and is usually produced during photosynthesis. The process of starch synthesis in nature includes about 60 biochemical reactions and complex physiological regulation.

The research team has developed a way to artificially synthesize starch with just 11 basic reactions, achieving the first complete synthesis from carbon dioxide to starch molecules in the lab. The structure of synthetic starch is exactly the same as the structure of natural starch.

The efficiency of synthetic starch production is about 8,5 times that of traditional agricultural starch production.

According to the current technical parameters, the annual production of starch in a bioreactor with a capacity of one cubic meter is theoretically equivalent to the amount of starch obtained from an annual crop of a corn field in China with an area of approximately 0,3 hectares, excluding energy costs.

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