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Surfactants &
Emulsifiers

Discovering new types of marine Surfactants and Emulsifiers that are natural and sustainably sourced.

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Surfactants &
Emulsifiers

Marine microbes as a source of novel biosurfactants and bioemulsifiers.

Our Research

Surfactants and emulsifiers constitute an important class of chemical agents that are widely used in almost every sector of modern industry.

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Welcome to MARISURF!

Title: MARISURF – NOVEL, SUSTAINABLE MARINE BIO-SURFACTANT / BIO-EMULSIFIES FOR COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION
Programme:
Horizon 2020
Duration: September 2015 – August 2020 (60 months)
Consortium:
12 partners from 6 countries
Coordinator:
HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY (HWU), UK

Our consortium (consisting of academic institutions, industrial companies and end-users) offering a wide range of expertise, will address the technical bottlenecks for meeting our objectives, namely those of marine resource identification, sustainable supply, discovery pipeline and efficient production in biological systems.

The expected impact of the project is to increase the  efficiency of discovery pipelines, the development of more economic and eco-friendly end-products and finally in contributing to the implementation of the objectives of the EU Blue Growth.

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Latest News

Marisurf Press release and relevant articles

A Marisurf press release was issued on April 21 https://www.hw.ac.uk/news/articles/2021/marine-alternatives-for-petrochemicals-in.htm summarising progress with the project.

The Euresearcher magazine  published an article which focussed on the Marisurf end user perspective and their requirements for […]

20 May 2021|

End of Project report

The project was extended until end February 2021 due to COVID working restrictions in 2020 .  This allowed the 3 Marisurf end users – Nanoimmunotech, Marlow Foods and APIVITA – […]

20 April 2021|