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Unexpected directions make new maps

Becoming CEO of a startup is never straightforward, but Dr Kyle Webster has taken the ‘long road’ to an extreme

Modified: 23 Oct 2020, 1:16 pm

Created: 22 Oct 2020, 3:37 pm
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Ambitious proposals for surplus electricity once Tiwai closes

Professors Sally Brooker and David Williams discuss options for using surplus electricity at the Manapouri power station.

Modified: 11 Aug 2020, 12:21 pm

Created: 11 Aug 2020, 11:56 am
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Patents and Spinouts 2019 - Annual Report 2019

This article from our 2019 Annual Report provides information about the MacDiarmid Institute's latest inventions, patents and spinouts.

Modified: 27 May 2020, 10:57 pm

Created: 27 May 2020, 10:25 pm
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When physics meets biochemistry - Annual Report 2018

Could bio-inspired self-assembled magnetic structures make computers more efficient?

Modified: 30 May 2019, 7:14 am

Created: 8 Apr 2019, 12:51 am
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Connecting with researchers at UCLA - Annual Report 2018

The discovery of conducting polymers – plastics that conduct electricity – won New Zealander Alan MacDiarmid the Nobel Prize in 2000.

Modified: 30 May 2019, 7:41 am

Created: 8 Apr 2019, 12:44 am
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2018 funding successes - Annual Report 2018

Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2018. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.

Modified: 16 Mar 2022, 4:05 pm

Created: 8 Apr 2019, 12:37 am
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Patents and spinouts 2018 - Annual Report 2018

This article from our 2018 Annual Report provides information about the MacDiarmid Institute's latest inventions, patents and spinouts.

Modified: 30 May 2019, 5:48 pm

Created: 8 Apr 2019, 12:30 am
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Professor David Williams

David is best known as a serial founder of technology start-up companies. A graduate of the University of Auckland (PhD, electrochemistry, 1974), after post-doctoral work at Oxford University and Imperial College London and industry experience at IMI Titanium, Birmingham, he developed his research career in electrochemistry and chemical sensors at the UK Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, in the 1980s.

Modified: 9 Mar 2019, 11:10 pm

Created: 14 Feb 2019, 2:38 pm
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Dr Bhuvana Kannan

Revolution Fibres Ltd is a world leading nanofibre production company based in Auckland developing products for air filtration, skincare, acoustics, composites and much more. It’s where MacDiarmid Institute alumni Dr Bhuvana Kannan works as Research & Innovation Manager.

Modified: 16 Jun 2019, 1:10 pm

Created: 12 Jul 2017, 12:00 am
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