Contact
Björn Þór Aðalsteinsson
Project Manager
bjornth@matis.is
The goal of the Marikat project is to develop enzymes for the processing of biomaterials from seafood.
Seaweed and kelp contain a lot of sugars with a variety of bioactivity.
The sugars are different from the sugars found in land plants and there is still a lack of enzyme tools to facilitate their processing from seaweed and conversion into valuable substances.
The project will develop various types of enzymes to process bioactive small sugars, rare sugars, polyphenols and seaweed surfactants. The market for such substances can be found in the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries.