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Alumni engagement

We continue to celebrate the achievements of our alumni – in academia, government and industry.

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Beyond lithium - Annual Report 2018

In today’s tech-hungry world, lithium batteries are ubiquitous, with everything from your mobile phone to the neighbour’s electric car relying on the metal, and it’s easy to see why. Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries pack a punch, storing more energy than any other battery of equivalent size, and delivering power to where it’s needed, quickly and efficiently.

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When physics meets biochemistry - Annual Report 2018

Could bio-inspired self-assembled magnetic structures make computers more efficient?

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Industry pathways for science graduates - Annual Report 2018

How do you go from a physics lab to Rocket Lab? Or from a chemistry lab to a new start-up company?

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Professor Alison Downard

Alison Downard is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Canterbury, Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, and a Principal Investigator with the MacDiarmid Institute. She gained her PhD at the University of Otago and undertook postdoctoral research at the University of Southampton with Professor Derek Pletcher and at UNC-Chapel Hill with Professor TJ Meyer. She has an Honorary Doctorate from the Université de Rennes 1, France.

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1.3 Painting semiconductors - Annual Report 2017

Imagine a point-of-care electronic blood test that can provide an immediate result in a doctor’s surgery, instead of the current tests that have to be sent away to a lab. The blood test device would plug into a mobile phone to provide a reading, and would be cheap and biofriendly.

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Alison Downard - hi-tech painting

Professor Alison Downard explains "hi-tech painting" techniques to develop surface coatings to boost the effectiveness of energy storing devices.

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