A biotechnology company specializing in marine cyanobacteria, Heliobiosys uses these organisms that grow on air, seawater, and sunlight to produce a variety of complex biopolymers. These sustainably-derived biomaterials havIng applications in cosmetics, sunscreens and bioplastics, HelioBioSys has developed cost-effective ways to harvest and process them into concentrated polysaccharides and hydrogels. In September 2017 it was announced that Sandia National Laboratories was working with HelioBioSys Inc. learn whether farming cyanobacteria on a large scale would be successful in producing sugar for biofuels