The articles of association of the Nobel Foundation stipulates: "The bonus amount can be evenly distributed between two work products, and each work product should be regarded as an award. If a job is done by two or three people, it should be paid equally. In any case, the bonus amount shall not exceed three. "

As for the achievement of "synthesizing starch with carbon dioxide", it is of great significance to solve the problems of world food security and climate warming, so it must be qualified.

Technology of synthesizing starch from carbon dioxide?

Using carbon dioxide as raw material to directly synthesize starch without relying on plant photosynthesis-a seemingly sci-fi scene really happened in the laboratory. Scientists in China realized the ab initio synthesis of carbon dioxide to starch for the first time, and the related results were published online by the internationally renowned academic journal Science on 202 1 Beijing time.

Starch is the most important component of grain, which is usually produced by crops fixing carbon dioxide through natural photosynthesis. The synthesis and accumulation of starch in nature involves more than 60 biochemical reactions and complex physiological regulation. Synthetic starch is an important subject in the field of science and technology. Previously, scientists from many countries actively explored, but no substantive breakthrough has been made.