Because just because you're ultra-hydrophobic, doesn't mean you're good at solving the problem of fouling.

The toxics are being phased out, but there's not much yet to replace them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofouling is a very complex subject, with a lot of research dollars behind it these days.

The skinny of it is that many proteins will expose their hydrophobic cores and thus denature onto these ultra-hydrophobic surfaces; I'd imagine these surfaces to be excellent in pure water, and terrible in anything non-ideal (aka, the ocean).

P2OPP ?

My advice -- be familiar with the tools and techniques, and pick a fun and collaborative project. Whether computational chemistry (my field) or biology, the tools that you use can and will be applied elsewhere. Being familiar with measures of similarity (Tanimoto similarity, for instance), has implications to multiple fields, as does multivariate modeling (PLS, SVMs, K-nearest-neighbor models, etc). I know several grads who 'jumped ship' to market analysis/market prediction (think brokerages and Wall Street). The point is, you become an expert in your field, and have the offers come to you.

Cheers,
-Mike

Sllort is a vicious troll.
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Enoch Root is a troll who links to hateful obscenities.
Ekrout is an idiot troll.

And you too are a troll.

Stop whining; you have been silenced.

Every product that I've ever bought from SonicBlue has been malformed and returned to sender.

The technology sounds cool, but I'll probably wait until it's available from another vendor.