At Firelake Capital, scouts for start-up ideas that apply materials science solutions to energy problems.
While Romeo is tackling the packing problem, both Gridtential and Ioinic are proposing material science solutions to some of the battery industry's problems — and as the financing indicates they're not the only ones.
Big Mountain Data, a startup that develops data science solutions to help fight domestic violence, studied the use of the hashtags #WhyIStayed and #WhyILeft on social and mainstream media between Sept. 8 and Dec. 1, 2014.
For founder and CEO James Rogers, who was working on a PhD in materials engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara when he was inspired to create Apeel Sciences, the solution to the problem of quickly spoiled food could be found by looking to a problem science had already solved: rust.
"As private American citizens, we brought a message of good will, formed by a shared interest in science and science-based solutions to problems, that would have been greeted with great suspicion if delivered by officials of the U.S. government".
[One] aspect that to me is very important is the recognition that science is the solution to the economic problems we have, and that life sciences in particular, either through the development of technologies, or medications, or industries, is a very good investment.
Science is the solution to stem rust, not the cause of its return.
If there's something medically wrong with an individual, and modern science has a solution to assist them, why would we object?
In philosophy of science, the traditional solution to this difficulty is that only certain predicates are "projectible".
New emerging self healing materials science provides solutions to the problem.
