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Sci Fi/Sci Fact: The Terminator

Professor Duncan McGillivray discusses reconfigurable materials, like Terminator's liquid metal endoskeleton.

Modified: 20 Jun 2024, 9:08 pm

Created: 14 Jun 2024, 9:02 pm
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Sci Fi/Sci Fact: Theranos

Professor Duncan McGillivray talks about a simple blood test that could tell us all manner of detail about our health.

Modified: 20 Jun 2024, 8:47 pm

Created: 10 Jun 2024, 8:38 pm
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Sci Fi/Sci Fact: Baakonite

Professor Duncan McGillivray discusses Baakonite - a strong, reinforced metal used for traditional Klingon weaponry such as the bat'leth.

Modified: 19 Jun 2024, 9:01 am

Created: 4 May 2024, 6:07 pm
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Funding successes - Annual Report 2022

Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2022. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.

Modified: 15 Aug 2023, 12:56 pm

Created: 19 Apr 2023, 6:34 pm
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Rhodes Trust trip to Oxford

Our Deputy Director Māori Associate Professor Pauline Harris travelled to Oxford in October with Juliet Nelson.

Modified: 18 Apr 2023, 7:01 pm

Created: 14 Apr 2023, 7:24 pm
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Taking nano and quantum science education into Rotorua schools

FLEET and MacDiarmid Institute teamed up for AMN10 in Rotorua to conduct science outreach workshops for 320 school students.

Modified: 23 Nov 2023, 3:39 pm

Created: 24 Feb 2023, 2:07 pm
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Summer of lab

Discovery Scholarship recipients spent their summer in various labs undertaking research.

Modified: 2 Jun 2022, 8:12 pm

Created: 4 May 2022, 9:52 pm
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Sci Fi/Sci Fact - Brothers Grimm: Rumplestiltskin

Professor Duncan McGillivray tries to work out how Rumpelstiltskin made straw into gold.

Modified: 28 Apr 2022, 12:47 pm

Created: 11 Apr 2022, 11:27 am
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Developing highly functional and tailorable surface coatings

New Associate Investigator Dr Taniela Lolohea is using some of his MacDiarmid funding for Pasifika science projects.

Modified: 27 Jul 2022, 12:02 pm

Created: 22 Feb 2022, 3:06 pm
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Materials: Fact or Fiction - Liquid Metal from Terminator

Principal Investigator, Professor Duncan McGillivray give his scientific take on reconfigurable materials - the Liquid Metal from the Terminator movies.

Modified: 20 Aug 2021, 11:22 am

Created: 5 Aug 2021, 1:08 pm
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Adapting to the online environment

As classes and meetings moved online in March as Aotearoa New Zealand entered Level 4 lockdown, we adapted our community outreach activities to the virtual environment.

Modified: 24 Jan 2022, 11:33 am

Created: 31 Mar 2021, 6:13 pm
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Awards - Annual Report 2020

This provides information about the range of awards received by MacDiarmid Institute Investigators in 2020.

Modified: 1 Apr 2021, 2:01 pm

Created: 24 Mar 2021, 5:30 pm
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