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Patenting - Annual Report 2024

Patent activity undertaken by our researchers in partnership with their respective Technology Transfer Offices.

Modified: 18/07/2025, 2:32 am

Created: 1/07/2025, 3:23 pm
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2024 Annual Symposium - Annual Report 2024

165 students, early career researchers and Investigators gathered for the MacDiarmid Institute’s annual symposium.

Modified: 18/07/2025, 2:25 am

Created: 8/06/2025, 7:09 pm
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Potential of Cleantech sector highlighted in report released today

A new report launched today has found that this country’s fast-growing Cleantech sector could become a high-value export earner.

Modified: 10/07/2024, 10:54 am

Created: 22/05/2024, 6:00 pm
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New Deputy Directors - Annual Report 2023

We have appointed two new Deputy Directors - for Outreach and Education, and for Commercialisation and Industry Engagement.

Modified: 5/06/2024, 6:36 am

Created: 13/04/2024, 7:16 pm
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Board Chair’s report - Annual Report 2023

I continue to be amazed and inspired as I look across the breadth of mahi undertaken by the Institute.

Modified: 12/06/2024, 9:33 am

Created: 12/04/2024, 6:37 pm
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Co-Directors’ Report - Annual Report 2023

2023 was a year full of activity, and we are pleased to share this report on the Institute's progress.

Modified: 5/06/2024, 6:18 am

Created: 12/04/2024, 6:08 pm
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We welcome two new Deputy Directors

We welcome Associate Professors Anna Garden and Natalie Plank as our new Deputy Directors, and bid farewell from our directorship team to Professor Paul Kruger and Associate Professor Geoff Willmott.

Modified: 15/07/2025, 8:54 am

Created: 3/07/2023, 10:58 am
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MESA is born

Principal Investigator Associate Professor Natalie Plank recalls walking into the offices of the Deputy Director and Centre Manager back in 2010 and pitching the idea for a MacDiarmid Institute student-led organisation

Modified: 31/07/2025, 10:56 am

Created: 21/04/2023, 5:37 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: 23/11/2023, 3:39 pm

Created: 24/02/2023, 2:07 pm
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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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Rethinking computing and communication, by combining cell biology with nanotechnology

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

Modified: 16/08/2022, 12:39 pm

Created: 6/05/2022, 12:55 pm
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Sci Fi/Sci Fact: Magic Wands

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

Modified: 28/05/2024, 5:34 pm

Created: 30/04/2022, 3:03 pm
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