South Korea's International Broadcasting Authority reported on the 30th that South Korea successfully developed the technology of using glucose to make plastic. The research results are published in the international academic journal Nature Communications.
The South Korea Ministry of Science and Technology Information and Communication Department, led by Professor Li Xiang Ye, a professor of biochemical engineering at the South Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAIST), and a research group headed by Professor Park Chu-jae, a professor of chemistry and new materials engineering at Ewha Womans University, Developed this plastic production technology.
The report said that in order to produce a plastic "aromatic polyester" used in beverage bottles or food packaging materials, the research team changed the gene of E. coli and then injected glucose into the transformed E. coli to produce "aromatic polyester 」
The research team introduced the use of this technology can be a variety of synthetic plastics, the bioplastics industry will contribute to the development.