"hi everyone welcome to the a six in Z podcast today's episode is at one of our newest portfolio companies which is applying nano scale material science to fruit and vegetables in this episode we cover..."

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"them into powders so they're lightweight they're low-cost to distribute and then we ship them to wherever we'd like to use them we reconstitute them in liquid form and we dip fresh produce into that s..."

"I mean strawberries are in a really difficult position and actually a lot of agriculture is this way in that the way that we grow food the way that nature produces things is through a systems approach..."

"benefit overall like when you think of the food these ecosystem as a whole like what does it really do for us so it's interesting you know it's a high-class problem and indeed you know preserving fres..."

"transport ability and transportation costs so for example in the case of avocados you know that the price of shipping a box of avocados to China is more expensive than the box whatõs itself because be..."

"margins weight and they're just rot and that's the it's you know was said to me once the for fresh produce the tyranny of time and that really resonated with me because if you think about the position..."

"consumer now there's some kind of side alleys in there and kind of different niches but that's kind of the general organization the problem with some of these they just don't have that electricity you..."

"about you know throwing away a third if you call that working now as you start talking about trying to be able to reduce losses which can be you know 80 90 percent of a harvest in the developing world..."

"and be mobile first in this case like in the case of zipline and drones and Ronda it's literally leap frogging but there's a lack of roads and medical infrastructure yeah I literally was thinking on t..."

"general when I think about how innovation happens oh yeah I mean it's exactly I think about it as well you know one of the ways I look at our product as well as infrastructure and a packet you've got ..."

"existing supply chain so although it's you know difficult and challenging for particular reasons to deliver these technologies into into developing countries the white space or the opportunities are a..."

"technologies that we employ in agriculture I think are what I would so I've kind of gone through this kind of mental exercise of what is a chemical and what's a what is a molecule and that's a really ..."

"generally interfere with are really valuable processes that's why they've stuck around for so long and so they're used by many many many different types of life-forms and so it's incredibly challengin..."

"is true of beauty products like being able to layer on layers of oils or it's the same kind of thing with skin and preservation because skin is perishable skin is very fresh actually if either the num..."

"let these things dry together will they form a structure that could give me some really interesting problems when you say that that way it's a beautiful simple of a simpler explanation of what you're ..."

"analytical chemistry how do we then combine these things in different ways to form interesting structures that's material science how do we analyze these things that's you know more than the physics r..."

"that's a water bottle knowing down to the molecule what it's made out of why it has the properties it has and how you could impact those properties by changing what the water bottle is made it's not l..."

"overcome that I mean you can't bypass it all together so a number of members of my team you know spent their PhD basically learning different techniques technique development to basically access new u..."

"characterizing these systems so when you have that infrastructure for characterization or rapid prototyping do you then make a trade-off and your ability to then scale things because then you're not u..."

"have agreed with you you know five six years ago yeah but with basically they have been of frankly the Arduino unit we've really been able to scale this I mean and 3d printing so I mean all of our tim..."

"other things we would not have been able to do this more than eight eight years ago probably I started in material science as well and and and I eventually moved on to more to more of the software wor..."

"me is material science has been fundamental to us as a species look at how we've designed our ages a stone age next eel age right silicon age we define our development as a species by what material se..."

"because material science is generally or is such an interdisciplinary field that's exactly I love about it so much if I could go back and do school all over I would do material science and the challen..."

"lab some right one of the things that's really interesting about material science is unlike a lot of the other disciplines maybe because it is cross-disciplinary he does the one where I still think a ..."

"example I think of is this initiative a lot of people from NASA to Autodesk that I've been working on which is bringing 3d printing to be able to like recreate entire new structures in space so that y..."

"is the same value proposition for a small organic grower in the United States as it is for a small holder farmers in the developing world same thing with an organic farmer in the US and one crop that ..."

"ends and this is a theme that I love but the other thing that you know earlier you mentioned how you can do a map of all the fruit around the world and map the times and they're perishability and it r..."