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2022 MacDiarmid Institute Marsden grant successes
3 November, 2022
Researchers from the MacDiarmid Institute for advanced materials and nanotechnology research received $7.84 million funding across nine projects through the 2022 Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden, the Marsden Fund. Eight of the projects that have MacDiarmid Institute Investigators are for Standard grants and one is a Fast Start, in total six projects are led by MacDiarmid Institute Investigators.
Established by the New Zealand government in 1994, the competitive Marsden Grant supports excellent fundamental research across humanities, science, social sciences, mātauranga, mathematics, and engineering for three years.
Congratulations to our successfully funded researchers!
| Baptiste Auguié Victoria University of Wellington *Eric Le Ru Victoria University of Wellington *Volker Nock University of Canterbury |
UV–vis spectroscopy of ultra-small scattering samples and individual micro-particles |
| Philip Brydon University of Otago |
Superconductors that survive ultra-high magnetic fields: Revealing the role of symmetry |
| Renwick Dobson University of Canterbury |
TRAPped in an elevator |
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Patricia Hunt *Cameron Weber |
Unravelling the electronic structure of highly charged hydrogen- and halogen- bonds; rational chemical design and the creation of novel ionic liquid materials |
| Geoff Jameson Massey University |
Structural basis of viral wars: Innate immune system attack on viral genomes and the counterattack by viruses |
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John Kennedy |
Can wonder crystal Perovskites transform solar power generation? - Discovering the links between strain and material properties |
| *Erin Leitao University of Auckland *Tilo Söhnel University of Auckland |
Green Awakening for Radical Chemistry |
| *Jami Shepherd University of Auckland |
Hearing and sound communication in crustaceans |
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**Prasanth Gupta *Geoff Waterhouse |
Harnessing the power of thermal spikes - A new pathway to fabricate size-controlled transition metal carbide nanoparticles for energy conversion and storage |
*Indicates AI
** Indicates Fast Start
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