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Funding successes - Annual Report 2021

Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2021. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.

Modified: 3/06/2022, 1:19 pm

Created: 9/05/2022, 8:59 pm
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Sci Fi/Sci Fact - Dune: Stillsuit

Principal Investigator, Associate Professor Geoff Willmott on the stillsuits from Dune; the water-saving suit.

Modified: 4/04/2022, 3:00 pm

Created: 4/04/2022, 10:43 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: 27/07/2022, 12:02 pm

Created: 22/02/2022, 3:06 pm
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Alumni engagement

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

Modified: 7/04/2021, 12:13 pm

Created: 1/04/2021, 2:11 am
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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: 1/04/2021, 11:33 am

Created: 31/03/2021, 9:42 am
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Materials: Fact or Fiction - The Stillsuit

MacDiarmid Institute Deputy Director, Associate Professor Geoff Willmott, gives us his scientific take on the stillsuit from Dune.

Modified: 19/03/2021, 12:11 pm

Created: 25/02/2021, 4:07 pm
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Materials science in the new energy sector

In May, the Government hosted the Just Transition summit in Taranaki on preparing for a low emissions economy,

Modified: 11/06/2020, 5:00 pm

Created: 11/06/2020, 2:00 pm
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Deep tech and the Māori economy can be the backbone of NZ’s recovery

Geoff Willmott discusses how the tech sector and the Māori economy is well-placed to lead New Zealand's recovery from Covid-19.

Modified: 26/06/2020, 11:20 am

Created: 4/06/2020, 9:51 am
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How can materials science offer a greener future for our planet? - Annual Report 2019

In 2019, we focused our annual regional showcase on 'NZ Innovation for Sustainability.'

Modified: 28/05/2020, 3:05 pm

Created: 28/05/2020, 2:13 pm
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Sustainable innovation and commercialisation

Dr Viji Sarojini and Dr Geoff Willmott are giving a joint presentation on sustainable innovation and commercialisation.

Modified: 3/10/2019, 2:32 pm

Created: 3/10/2019, 2:03 pm
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The cure for climate change could be in our own backyard

The answers to sustainability goals and energy commitments must involve materials research happening in New Zealand, writes Dr Geoff Willmott.

Modified: 24/09/2019, 11:51 am

Created: 4/05/2019, 11:25 am
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Professor Geoff Willmott

Geoff grew up in Auckland and studied at the University of Cambridge, obtaining a PhD in shock physics in 2005. The following year he returned to New Zealand and Industrial Research Limited, where he worked in the Nano and Micro Fluidics team for 8 years. He joined the University of Auckland in 2013 and is currently a Professor in the Department of Physics and the School of Chemical Sciences.

Modified: 4/06/2026, 1:54 pm

Created: 14/02/2019, 2:38 pm
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