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Sci Fi/Sci Fact: The Terminator

Professor Duncan McGillivray discusses reconfigurable materials, like Terminator's liquid metal endoskeleton.

Modified: Jun 20, 2024, 9:08 PM

Created: Jun 14, 2024, 9:02 PM
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Sci Fi/Sci Fact: Theranos

Professor Duncan McGillivray talks about a simple blood test that could tell us all manner of detail about our health.

Modified: Jun 20, 2024, 8:47 PM

Created: Jun 10, 2024, 8:38 PM
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Sci Fi/Sci Fact: Baakonite

Professor Duncan McGillivray discusses Baakonite - a strong, reinforced metal used for traditional Klingon weaponry such as the bat'leth.

Modified: Jun 19, 2024, 9:01 AM

Created: May 4, 2024, 6:07 PM
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Funding successes - Annual Report 2022

Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2022. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.

Modified: Aug 15, 2023, 12:56 PM

Created: Apr 19, 2023, 6:34 PM
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Rhodes Trust trip to Oxford

Our Deputy Director Māori Associate Professor Pauline Harris travelled to Oxford in October with Juliet Nelson.

Modified: Apr 18, 2023, 7:01 PM

Created: Apr 14, 2023, 7:24 PM
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Taking nano and quantum science education into Rotorua schools

FLEET and MacDiarmid Institute teamed up for AMN10 in Rotorua to conduct science outreach workshops for 320 school students.

Modified: Nov 23, 2023, 3:39 PM

Created: Feb 24, 2023, 2:07 PM
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Summer of lab

Discovery Scholarship recipients spent their summer in various labs undertaking research.

Modified: Jun 2, 2022, 8:12 PM

Created: May 4, 2022, 9:52 PM
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Sci Fi/Sci Fact - Brothers Grimm: Rumplestiltskin

Professor Duncan McGillivray tries to work out how Rumpelstiltskin made straw into gold.

Modified: Apr 28, 2022, 12:47 PM

Created: Apr 11, 2022, 11:27 AM
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Developing highly functional and tailorable surface coatings

New Associate Investigator Dr Taniela Lolohea is using some of his MacDiarmid funding for Pasifika science projects.

Modified: Jul 27, 2022, 12:02 PM

Created: Feb 22, 2022, 3:06 PM
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Materials: Fact or Fiction - Liquid Metal from Terminator

Principal Investigator, Professor Duncan McGillivray give his scientific take on reconfigurable materials - the Liquid Metal from the Terminator movies.

Modified: Aug 20, 2021, 11:22 AM

Created: Aug 5, 2021, 1:08 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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Awards - Annual Report 2020

This provides information about the range of awards received by MacDiarmid Institute Investigators in 2020.

Modified: Apr 1, 2021, 2:01 PM

Created: Mar 24, 2021, 5:30 PM
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