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Sci Fi/Sci Fact: Wonder Woman's Feminum Wristguards

Professor Nicola Gaston talks about Wonder Woman's feminum gauntlets that can deflect bullets.

Modified: 20 Jun 2024, 8:57 pm

Created: 12 Jun 2024, 8:50 pm
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Sci Fi/Sci Fact: Unobtainium

Professor Nicola Gaston talks about the mineral Unobtainium in Avatar and the theoretical possibilities of solid hydrogen.

Modified: 20 Jun 2024, 8:58 pm

Created: 3 Jun 2024, 7:35 pm
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2023 Awards - Annual Report 2023

MacDiarmid Institute Principal and Associate Investigators and managers who have received awards this year.

Modified: 5 Jun 2024, 6:37 am

Created: 13 Apr 2024, 7:34 pm
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Catalysts for positive change - Annual Report 2023

Our researchers are on the hunt to find new materials and technologies that can help reduce greenhouse gases.

Modified: 24 Jun 2024, 10:58 am

Created: 12 Apr 2024, 10:14 pm
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Co-Directors’ Report - Annual Report 2023

2023 was a year full of activity, and we are pleased to share this report on the Institute's progress.

Modified: 5 Jun 2024, 6:18 am

Created: 12 Apr 2024, 6:08 pm
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Co-Directors appointed Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi

MacDiarmid Institute Co-Directors Professor Nicola Gaston and Professor Justin Hodgkiss have both been elected to the New Zealand Royal Society Te Apārangi’s Academy.

Modified: 23 Jan 2025, 1:09 pm

Created: 4 Apr 2024, 6:08 pm
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Professor Nicola Gaston discusses science funding on TV Three's AM show

Professor Nicola Gaston discusses science funding on TV Three’s AM show, Tuesday 20 February.

Modified: 28 Feb 2024, 5:51 pm

Created: 28 Feb 2024, 4:00 pm
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MacDiarmid Institute Co-Director Prof Nicola Gaston awarded Royal Society Thomson Medal

Our Co-Director Prof Nicola Gaston has been awarded the Thomson Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for transformative leadership for the research, science and innovation sector and as a ‘driver of change’ towards equity for women in science.

Modified: 23 Jan 2025, 1:08 pm

Created: 9 Nov 2023, 7:20 pm
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What is materials science (2023)

MacDiarmid Institute investigators discuss how materials science and nanotechnology can solve the big problems of our time.

Modified: 16 Oct 2023, 12:26 am

Created: 16 Oct 2023, 12:03 am
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We welcome two new Deputy Directors

We welcome Associate Professors Anna Garden and Natalie Plank as our new Deputy Directors, and bid farewell from our directorship team to Professor Paul Kruger and Associate Professor Geoff Willmott.

Modified: 10 Jul 2023, 2:00 pm

Created: 3 Jul 2023, 10:58 am
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Our research programmes over the years

There has been an evolution to move the focus of applications more towards global challenges of climate change and sustainability.

Modified: 19 Apr 2023, 6:33 pm

Created: 18 Apr 2023, 7:41 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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