Tracing innovation : Agilent to Solazyme

I've posted on YouTube a video screen capture of my experiments using Visible Legacy to explore the collaboration between Agilent Technologies and Stanford University's professor Fritz Prinz.  This interesting activity is a research program designed to explore a new class of nanoscale devices using a combination of the scanning probe microscope and atomic layer deposition.  Interestingly, I also found papers from within Professor Prinz's lab describing the search for electrical current stemming from plants, and that a couple of co-authors are part of an emerging firm in San Francisco named Solazyme that is developing fuels from algae.  Solazyme's strategic advisory board includes Donald Kennedy, Bing Professor of Environmental Science and President Emeritus of Stanford, and former Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.  I believe there are several hotspots of innovation to be found in Professor Prinz's lab!

posted by Will Snow