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Stuart Wimbush: From materials to systems

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Stuart Wimbush: From materials to systems

Commercialising high temperature superconductors is what the 25 scientists and engineers at the Robinson Research Institute (RRI) do best.

July 13, 2015

Penny Brothers: Exploring surface patterning

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Penny Brothers: Exploring surface patterning

Professor Penny Brothers is as proud and enthusiastic talking about her family as she is her science – her screensaver...

July 13, 2015

Nick White: Inspiring alumnus

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Nick White: Inspiring alumnus

MacDiarmid Institute alumnus, Dr Nick White was born in the UK, but grew up in New Zealand and completed his...

July 10, 2015

Matthew Cowan: Silver ions to the rescue!

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Matthew Cowan: Silver ions to the rescue!

We’re often told that obliging industry to significantly reduce energy consumption and energy-related emissions would be bad for business and...

July 10, 2015

Luke Liu: Metal-Organic Frameworks

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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...

July 10, 2015

Harry Warring: Meet 2015’s MESA Chair

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Harry Warring: Meet 2015’s MESA Chair

Harry Warring, the new Chair of the MacDiarmid Emerging Research Association (MESA) likes spin - spintronics to be precise –...

July 10, 2015

Public Lecture Series: The Energy Revolution

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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...

July 10, 2015

Outreach – Institute Investigators visit Nelson College for Girls

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Outreach – Institute Investigators visit Nelson College for Girls

While in Nelson for AMN-7 the MacDiarmid Institute’s seventh international conference for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, three of the Institute’s...

March 24, 2015

Professor Jeffrey Long – The beauty of chemistry

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Professor Jeffrey Long – The beauty of chemistry

About a tenth of the energy we use globally goes into chemical separations—processes that strip a particular molecule from a...

March 24, 2015

Professor Nicola Spaldin – cosmic strings

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Professor Nicola Spaldin – cosmic strings

What do the origins of the early universe have to do with materials science? More than you might think, according...

March 24, 2015

Professor Pat Unwin – living a life in flux

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Professor Pat Unwin – living a life in flux

When Professor Pat Unwin talks about a state of flux, he’s not thinking of political uncertainty or economic turmoil or...

March 24, 2015

Professor Laurens Molenkamp – Materials with a new spin

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Professor Laurens Molenkamp – Materials with a new spin

When Professor Laurens Molenkamp discovered the quantum spin Hall effect, he knew he was onto something big.

March 24, 2015