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MESA is born

Principal Investigator Associate Professor Natalie Plank recalls walking into the offices of the Deputy Director and Centre Manager back in 2010 and pitching the idea for a MacDiarmid Institute student-led organisation

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Supervision Expectations

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Created: 31/05/2023, 12:36 pm
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2023 Funding successes - Annual Report 2023

Funding successes for our Investigators and their research programmes during 2023.

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Created: 13/04/2024, 7:58 pm
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Discovery Scholarship recipients - 2025

Meet some of the successful recipients of the 2025 Discovery Scholarship awards.

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Created: 27/02/2025, 8:18 am
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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. Formerly part of IRL, and called the Superconductivity and Energy Team, the RRI is now part of Victoria University of Wellington.

Modified: 16/06/2019, 1:06 pm

Created: 13/07/2015, 12:00 am
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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. At the time he thought it was the type of discovery that an active researcher makes every ten years or so, and with his team, he decided to send it into a bigger journal—Science. “What happened next, we did not really foresee,” he says.

Modified: 16/06/2019, 1:08 pm

Created: 24/03/2015, 12:00 am
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1.4 The solar panel revolution - Annual Report 2017

When we imagine solar panels, we think of hard rectangular frames sitting on roofs, or spread out across expanses of deserts, but imagine flexible, bendy solar panels, supple enough to skim a curved roof, pliable enough to be rolled up and transported easily, lightweight enough to be a thin film for the roof of a tent, and portable enough to be rolled out to generate power for emergency relief operations or taken into remote areas.

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Created: 18/05/2018, 12:00 am
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1.5 Science is beautiful - Annual Report 2017

Scientists don’t often call the focus of their work gorgeous, but this is the exact term that Principal Investigator Professor Shane Telfer uses to describe the metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) he is creating in the lab.

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Created: 18/05/2018, 12:00 am
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3.9 Cluster hui - Annual Report 2017

The MacDiarmid Institute’s 15th annual cluster hui on nanoclusters was held in Glenorchy in November, where 29 MacDiarmid scientists from four universities presented a huge range of work within the cluster umbrella.

Modified: 25/04/2019, 1:31 am

Created: 18/05/2018, 12:00 am
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4.1 Into the future - Annual Report 2017

With 624 PhD students and 190 Postdoctoral Fellows having graduated and found their way in the wider world after their time with the MacDiarmid Institute, it’s not surprising to see some real success stories. Here are three recent examples.

Modified: 25/04/2019, 1:33 am

Created: 18/05/2018, 12:00 am
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