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Showcasing science for future sustainability at Te Papa

Te Papa’s Nature exhibit features some of our scientists' work creating materials for energy technology key to mitigating climate change.

Modified: 24 Jan 2022, 11:28 am

Created: 22 Aug 2019, 11:11 am
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Metal Organic Frameworks - Annual Report 2018

An entire rugby turf in a teaspoon: the tiny crystal game-changers in combatting climate change.

Modified: 30 May 2019, 7:27 am

Created: 8 Apr 2019, 12:46 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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Case studies - Annual Report 2018

Engender Ltd was formed by Principal Investigator Professor Cather Simpson in 2011 to provide a solution to the problem dairy farmers have of selecting the sex of their calves.

Modified: 30 May 2019, 5:43 pm

Created: 8 Apr 2019, 12:32 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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Science of Surfaces bootcamp - Annual Report 2018

This year 30 MacDiarmid Institute students - chemists and physicists - met up in Wanaka to discuss the science of…

Modified: 30 May 2019, 6:06 pm

Created: 8 Apr 2019, 12:10 am
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Professor Shane Telfer

Shane Telfer was born in the town of Clyde in Central Otago, New Zealand. He completed a BSc (Hons) and a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Canterbury, and is now a Professor of Chemistry at Massey University. This gradual drift northwards was punctuated by a post-doctoral odyssey that included stops in Geneva, Tokyo and Montreal.

Modified: 3 Oct 2024, 1:38 am

Created: 14 Feb 2019, 2:38 pm
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MacDiarmid Professor Shane Telfer helps easing life for asthmatics

Scientists hope to help asthma sufferers and others needing oxygen at home by developing molecular sponges with nanoscale-sized pores to purify the air.

Modified: 16 Jun 2019, 1:17 pm

Created: 12 Dec 2017, 12:00 am
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Luke Liu: Metal-Organic Frameworks

Luke Liu builds molecular sponges—known as metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, these molecular sponges have the potential to store and separate industrial compounds such as hydrogen, methane and carbon dioxide with high efficiency. The energy required to separate these compounds using current methods is high—for example, about a third of the power generated from coal burning is used to capture the carbon dioxide from the post-combustion gas mixtures produced during the coal burning process.

Modified: 16 Jun 2019, 1:07 pm

Created: 10 Jul 2015, 12:00 am
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Public Lecture Series: The Energy Revolution

The age of fossil fuels is coming to an end and global warming from their burning is undeniable - but when will tomorrow begin? Will there be a long transition period, with a mish-mash of renewables while we learn to harness the sun’s energy efficiently, as plants have been doing for 3.5 billion years? Is there even enough sunlight striking the Earth to supply the increasing energy demands of 6-9 billion humans?

Modified: 16 Jun 2019, 1:07 pm

Created: 10 Jul 2015, 12:00 am
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Shane Telfer - microscopic pores for CO2 capture

Professor Shane Telfer is working to capture carbon in the atmosphere so climate change can be more effectively tackled.

Modified: 21 May 2019, 6:54 am

Created: 23 Feb 2015, 12:00 am
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