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Sci Fi/Sci Fact - Axonite

Professor Bill Williams discusses Axonite from Dr Who - a 'thinking' material that can replicate any substance and spreads itself across the cosmos to feed itself.

Modified: Jul 25, 2023, 12:07 PM

Created: Jul 18, 2023, 2:04 PM
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Journal Covers - Annual Report 2021

This page lists the various scientific journal covers that featured MacDiarmid Institute Investigators work in 2021.

Modified: Jun 2, 2022, 6:38 PM

Created: Jun 2, 2022, 3:47 PM
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Rethinking computing and communication, by combining cell biology with nanotechnology

Systems that blend biology with electronics could answer some big questions.

Modified: Aug 16, 2022, 12:39 PM

Created: May 6, 2022, 12:55 PM
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Adapting to the online environment

As classes and meetings moved online in March as Aotearoa New Zealand entered Level 4 lockdown, we adapted our community outreach activities to the virtual environment.

Modified: Jan 24, 2022, 11:33 AM

Created: Mar 31, 2021, 6:13 PM
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Pulling microfluidics out of a hat

For Dr Rob Ward and MacDiarmid Institute Principal Investigator Professor Bill Williams, commercialisation is the end point of a long learning process.

Modified: Apr 1, 2021, 11:35 AM

Created: Mar 31, 2021, 3:49 PM
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The emerging field of mechanobiology

Physics biology collaborations are forging mechanobiology – a research area key to understanding health and disease.

Modified: Apr 1, 2021, 11:33 AM

Created: Mar 31, 2021, 9:42 AM
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Materials: Fact or Fiction - Tenet

Professor Bill Williams explains the science behind time travel and entropy in Christopher Nolan's Tenet.

Modified: Mar 5, 2021, 11:02 AM

Created: Feb 11, 2021, 1:28 PM
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Materials Fact or Fiction - Kryptonite

Professor Bill Williams, Principal Investigator gives us his scientific take on Kryptonite from DC Comics' Superman.

Modified: Feb 11, 2021, 1:34 PM

Created: Dec 8, 2020, 10:36 AM
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Materials: Fact or Fiction - Nelson (10 November)

Professor Bill Williams and Dr Erin Leitao give their scientific take on whether fictional materials could be reality in a not too far off future.

Modified: Oct 14, 2020, 11:25 AM

Created: Sep 24, 2020, 8:26 AM
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Patents and Spinouts 2019 - Annual Report 2019

This article from our 2019 Annual Report provides information about the MacDiarmid Institute's latest inventions, patents and spinouts.

Modified: May 27, 2020, 10:57 PM

Created: May 27, 2020, 10:25 PM
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Materials: Fact or Fiction - Axonite

In this episode of RNZ's 'Materials: Fact or Fiction', Professor Bill Williams discusses Axonite from Dr Who.

Modified: Jan 24, 2022, 4:54 PM

Created: Mar 9, 2020, 11:28 AM
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2018 funding successes - Annual Report 2018

Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2018. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.

Modified: Mar 16, 2022, 4:05 PM

Created: Apr 8, 2019, 12:37 AM
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