Critical Minerals, Material Solutions - Christchurch (24 September)

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The topic for this year’s MacDiarmid Institute Lecture Series is Critical Minerals, Material Solutions. The world wants minerals, but scientists around Aotearoa are working on what we could make to use instead.

In association with the Canterbury Branch of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, join us in Christchurch on 24 September, when Aaron Marshall and Brooke Matthews will discuss critical minerals - raw materials that are essential to many existing and future technologies and have been making headlines in recent times due to increasing supply chain vulnerabilities. Aaron and Brooke will present materials science solutions that are being developed and utilised right now, in Aotearoa New Zealand, to recycle, replace or reduce our need for critical minerals.

Professor Aaron Marshall is an electrochemist in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering at the University of Canterbury, and a Principal Investigator with the MacDiarmid Institute. His research focuses on advancing electrochemical technologies including flow batteries, fuel cells, water electrolysis, and carbon dioxide reduction. Aaron is also the co-founder of two start-ups, Zethos and Ternary Kinetics.

Dr Brooke Matthews is an inorganic chemist working at the Paihau-Robinson Research Institute at Victoria University of Wellington and a MacDiarmid Institute alumna. She currently leads work in the Clean Materials Team on clean hydrometallurgy and Zero-Liquid-Discharge processing of waste materials for Vanadium and Tungsten extraction.

Registration is required. Please register here via Eventbrite.

Not in Christchurch? We're also hosting this event in Hawke's Bay (7 September) and Wellington (16 September).

Otherwise let us know where you'd like us to visit next!