Recently, the 24th China Hi-tech Fair (hereinafter referred to as CHTF) has concluded in Shenzhen. With a theme of “Scientific Reform Drives Innovation, Scientific Innovation Drives Development” this year, the event is an important window of China’s high and new technology to the outside world and an important platform for the industrialization of high-tech achievements. Each year, the event has brought together many latest innovations, as a lot of excellent enterprises in the field of synthetic biology also compete to show their excellent products on the platform.
The “Excellent Product Award” of CHTF is for excellent products selected after the organizing committee organizes experts to strictly review and comprehensively evaluate the enterprises and products in the exhibition and the experts rate the products and projects short-listed for the review at the site of the event.
On the closing day of the exhibition, the “Excellent Product Award” winners were announced, which were won by two enterprises settled in the Synthetic Biology Industrial Park, namely Powered Carbon for “electric catalytic reactor for high-value transformation of CO2” and “high value-added products of CO2 - toys made with biodegradable plastic PHA” and PAML for “bionic protein tissue adhesive”.
As a unique product of Powered Carbon with completely independent intellectual property rights, the electric catalytic reactor (module) for high-value transformation of CO2 can produce single bulk chemicals, enhance the utilization value of CO2, produce glucose, an alternative raw material for synthetic biology fermentation technology, which can prepare high-value biological and chemical products by independently developing the biological fermentation strains for the said carbon material with synthetic biology technology.
CO2 products with a high value-added - toys made with biodegradable plastic PHA: toys made with carbon-free bio-based high-performance materials are created with 3D printing technology with bio-based degradable plastic as the base material, adopting the industrial electric catalytic and synthetic biology fermentation technologies of Powered Carbon. The raw materials PHA and PLA are from industrial emissions of CO2 exhaust. The new energy power is used in the process of printing, which has achieved negative carbon and carbon-free technologies throughout the industrial chain from raw materials to manufacturing.
As the first technology service provider to drive the electric chemistry carbon neutrality of synthetic biology with new energy in China, Shenzhen Powered Carbon Biotechnology Co., Ltd., appeared in the CHTF for the first time, exhibiting several products independently developed by itself with intellectual property rights and patents such as the industrial electric catalytic and synthetic biology fermentation reaction platform system, the electric chemistry catalytic module and the carbon-free bio-based high-performance materials.
It has initiated the electric chemistry and synthetic biology technology in the Dual Carbon industry to address the difficulty to achieve a high-value utilization of CO2 after its capturing faced by existing CCUS technology. With the new energy power, through the in-depth integration of electric chemical catalytic technology and synthetic biology cell factory technology, it has developed a catalytic technology drive by the hybrid power of electricity, chemistry and biology to convert CO2 into high-value chemicals with a low energy consumption and a high efficiency. It has not only addressed the demand of upstream enterprises with a high carbon emission for cutting the CO2 emissions in industries such as petroleum and petrochemical, cement, and iron and steel and changed the production modes of enterprises with a high carbon emission, but also provided green and low-carbon alternative products for various terminal enterprises to boost their industrial upgrade and the export of domestic manufactured products, such as raw materials for cosmetics, medical materials and toy materials.
PAML won an “Excellent Product Award”
As an emerging field of synthetic biology, why did PAML win this award?
Bionic protein tissue adhesive is a high-performance medical adhesive developed with synthetic biology and artificial intelligence inspired by the bonding of marine organisms in the water, with the functions of hemostasis and bonding. It has advantages such as wet bonding, intraoperative hemostasis, adjustable performance, and good biocompatibility. It can be used for fresh surgical incision of human skin, wound closure and hemostasis and bonding of liver, kidney, spleen, lung or blood vessels.
Bionic protein tissue adhesive can complete the hemostasis and closure of wound and cut in one step and avoid the traditional operation of hemostasis before suture, which not only reduces scars, but also improves the rate of surgeries and hospitalization efficiency, and relieves the tension of medical resources. It is of important social significance to patients, doctors, hospitals and public resources of the society. PAML has pioneered the development of protein materials with synthetic biology technology, secured the technical commanding point from the top of material design, realized “creation by Shenzhen” and “creation by China” in real sense and broken the foreign monopoly. It measures the world with science and technology, and embraces the future with innovations. As an emerging enterprise of material synthetic biology at the forefront of industrialization, PAML will continue to step up its innovation efforts in the future and repay the society with reliable products.
PAML was co-founded by Dr. Zhong Chao from SIAT, and his university classmate Cui Junfeng in March 2021. It has driven the development of bio-based materials and products with dual core technologies of synthetic biology and machine learning (BT-IT). The founder, Dr. Zhong Chao, graduated from Cornell University and returned to China after graduating from MIT in 2014. In 2021, he was funded by the National Outstanding Youth Fund. In the same year, he established PAML in Shenzhen. His core team included a number of doctors with globally top academic achievements and senior experts in the field of process engineering. It mainly deploys in the development pipelines of protein and polysaccharide and endows materials with unique bio-activity and even vital signs through a rational design. Its related raw materials and products are widely used in such fields as medicine, cosmetic medicine and makeups, food and industry.
Let’s expect more unique, wonderful exhibits in the next CHTF.