2025-01-15T14:34:38+08:002025-01-15|News|

Prof. Yansheng Yin, Director of the Key Laboratory of Guangdong Provincial Universities of Guangzhou Maritime University, visited IAPME on January 14, 2025. During the visit, he delivered a speech entitled “Research and application of key mineralization technologies of special flora based on microbial resources in the South China Sea”. The seminar was hosted by Prof. Guoxing Sun, Prof. Binmeng Chen also extended an invitation to the guest.

Prof. Yin is a highly respected expert in the field of Marine Engineering and Transportation Engineering, and a special Professor of Yangtze River Scholars of the Ministry of Education. He holds a doctorate degree in materials science from Southeast University. His main research direction is the research on the mechanism and process of microbial mineralization in the South China Sea. In 2023, he was listed as the world’s top 2% lifetime influential scientists, and has presided over more than 30 major and important projects such as national 973 and 863.

In his speech, Prof. Yin proposed the use of marine microbial resources to implement the “sea to sea” anti-pollution and anticorrosion strategy, that is, to mineralize marine microorganisms to solve the problem of their corrosion of ocean-related equipment, and transformed this concept into an implementable mineralization process through a series of studies.

The seminar provided participants with the latest progress of microbial mineralization technology in the current marine field, and explored the application potential of microbial mineralization technology in civil engineering. In particular, the feasibility of applying microbial mineralized liquid in new foamed concrete materials to improve pore structure and form a mineralized pore wall to enhance the mechanical properties, durability and water absorption of foamed concrete materials is discussed. Prof. Yin’s innovative ideas of using microbial resources in the South China Sea to implement the “sea to sea” has been successfully applied in a number of domestic projects.