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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: Jun 3, 2022, 1:19 PM

Created: May 9, 2022, 8:59 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: Jun 3, 2022, 1:15 PM

Created: May 6, 2022, 12:55 PM
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Sci Fi/Sci Fact: Magic Wands

Principal Investigator Dr Natalie Plank discusses if magic wands could scientifically exist.

Modified: May 25, 2022, 2:32 PM

Created: Apr 30, 2022, 3:03 PM
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Bridging the divide between theoretical and experimental physics

Dr Kannan Ridings from Rongowhakaata is one of the MacDiarmid Institute’s newest Associate Investigators.

Modified: May 4, 2022, 7:23 PM

Created: Feb 22, 2022, 2:32 PM
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How does the nose know what it knows?

Dr Natalie Plank is leading a team using nanoelectric devices to investigate how olfactory receptors transmit signals to insects about their surroundings.

Modified: Apr 22, 2022, 6:41 PM

Created: Dec 6, 2021, 6:59 PM
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2021 MacDiarmid Institute Marsden grant successes

MacDiarmid Institute led research received $6.2 million funding in 2021 Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden, the Marsden Fund.

Modified: Nov 3, 2021, 3:28 PM

Created: Nov 3, 2021, 11:29 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: May 28, 2020, 3:05 PM

Created: May 28, 2020, 2:13 PM
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Element of the Week - Boron (B)

Principal Investigator Dr Natalie Plank introduces the element Boron on RNZ Nights' Element of the Week.

Modified: Jan 24, 2022, 4:24 PM

Created: Nov 11, 2019, 9:42 AM
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Element of the Week - Gold (Au)

Principal Investigator Dr Natalie Plank introduces the element Gold on RNZ Nights' Element of the Week.

Modified: Jan 24, 2022, 4:04 PM

Created: Jul 19, 2019, 2:51 PM
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Dr Natalie Plank

Dr Natalie Plank is a Lecturer in Physics in the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington. Natalie completed a BSc (Hons) in Astrophysics at The University of Edinburgh before doing an MSc in Microelectronics. She then completed her PhD on the functionalisation of carbon nanotubes for molecular electronics with Rebecca Cheung also at The University of Edinburgh.

Modified: Mar 10, 2021, 8:53 AM

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

Modified: Apr 15, 2021, 5:21 PM

Created: May 18, 2018, 12:00 AM
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Tell me about your thesis - Leo Browning

MacDiarmid Institute PhD student Leo Browning manipulates nano-wires to make neural networks that behave like living neurons.

Modified: Jun 16, 2019, 1:36 PM

Created: Jun 27, 2017, 12:00 AM
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