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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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Created: Apr 8, 2019, 12:51 AM
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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?

Modified: May 30, 2019, 6:05 PM

Created: Apr 8, 2019, 12:12 AM
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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.

Modified: Apr 21, 2019, 9:11 PM

Created: Feb 14, 2019, 2:38 PM
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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.

Modified: May 21, 2019, 6:54 AM

Created: Feb 23, 2015, 12:00 AM
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