【Focus on postdocs】Naked algae can also be used in this way! Shenzhen University team focuses on naked algae research to "turn waste into treasure"

Text, photo/ Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Zhang Wen Gao Enthalpy Zhou Cong Guo Siqi

Speaking of naked algae, people in the industry of water environment management are often very headaches, and this single-celled eukaryote formed by eutrophication of water bodies often multiplies in large quantities in the warm season, making the water body "green". However, the research team of Chen Zixi of Shenzhen University has formed a series of research results through the development of the value of naked algae.

The research team of Shenzhen University demonstrated the extraction process of naked algae on the spot

From December 18th to 20th, at the Shenzhen booth in the postdoctoral achievement exhibition area of the National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, Chen Zixi's team's "High-quality prebiotics: naked algae β-1,3-dextran" project attracted the attention of reporters. Through the study of naked algae, the team developed naked algae prebiotics, which can promote the growth of probiotics in the human body, enhance their antioxidant activity, adsorb purines, reduce uric acid value, and promote immune activity, "In layman's terms, naked algae enters the human body, can stimulate the human body to produce more immune cells and enhance immunity"; also effective for the body are naked algae prebiotic biscuits, which can regulate the stomach and liver. The research team also took advantage of the characteristics of ethanol required for the production of naked algae to develop a naked algae antidote, absorb ethanol through naked algae, and promote the metabolic cycle of the human body, which has a significant antidote function for foreign wine and liquor.

Naked algae has the added value of carbon sequestration of microalgae such as "carbon neutrality" and "carbon peaking", and adsorbs heavy metal pollution in soil and water bodies. Using this feature, the research team treated environmental pollution through the treatment of bare algae sewage. At the same time, Chen Zixi also introduced that there is its own way of "communication" between naked algae, and the research team can effectively avoid the proliferation of naked algae in the water by releasing signal factors to make naked algae produce "do not reproduce" information, which can effectively avoid the proliferation of naked algae in the water body, "which also avoids the use of traditional chemicals to remove the secondary pollution side effects of the water body caused by naked algae." ”

Source | Yangcheng Evening News Yangcheng Pie

Editor-in-charge | Wei Qin