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AMN conferences through the ages

One of the most impactful outcomes of the Institute over the past 20 years has been our series of international conferences on advanced materials and nanotechnology (AMN).

Modified: 28 Jan 2025, 4:47 pm

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AMN7 Speakers 2015

AMN7 featured a stunning line up of presenters, whose specialty areas covered the whole spectrum of research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.

Modified: 10 Aug 2022, 5:39 pm

Created: 9 Jun 2022, 3:59 pm
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International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (AMN)

The MacDiarmid Institute has since 2003 hosted a biennial International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (AMN). AMN10, the tenth in this series, will be held in Rotorua 7-10 February 2023.

Modified: 16 Aug 2022, 12:40 pm

Created: 2 Jun 2022, 4:23 pm
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Professor Laurens Molenkamp – Materials with a new spin

When Professor Laurens Molenkamp discovered the quantum spin Hall effect, he knew he was onto something big. At the time he thought it was the type of discovery that an active researcher makes every ten years or so, and with his team, he decided to send it into a bigger journal—Science. “What happened next, we did not really foresee,” he says.

Modified: 16 Jun 2019, 1:08 pm

Created: 24 Mar 2015, 12:00 am
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Professor Jeffrey Long – The beauty of chemistry

About a tenth of the energy we use globally goes into chemical separations—processes that strip a particular molecule from a gas or liquid. Much of that energy could be saved with a little help from synthetic chemistry.

Modified: 16 Jun 2019, 1:08 pm

Created: 24 Mar 2015, 12:00 am
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Professor Nicola Spaldin – cosmic strings

What do the origins of the early universe have to do with materials science? More than you might think, according to Nicola Spaldin and her colleagues at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland. Spaldin has found an unusual material that mimics aspects of the way the universe might have been shortly after the Big Bang.

Modified: 16 Jun 2019, 1:08 pm

Created: 24 Mar 2015, 12:00 am
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Professor Pat Unwin – living a life in flux

When Professor Pat Unwin talks about a state of flux, he’s not thinking of political uncertainty or economic turmoil or any of the other problems besetting our planet - he’s thinking about very, very small interactions in the equally complex nano-world.

Modified: 16 Jun 2019, 1:08 pm

Created: 24 Mar 2015, 12:00 am
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