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Patenting and invention disclosures - Annual Report 2025

Institute research entrepreneurs submitted three invention disclosures to Technology Transfer Offices, filed nine patent applications and secured one patent grant.

Modified: 25/07/2026, 3:13 pm

Created: 20/06/2026, 6:08 pm
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C3 - Annual Report 2025

The inaugural C3 programme brought together research teams from across the Institute to lay the groundwork for developing commercial applications.

Modified: 25/07/2026, 3:12 pm

Created: 20/06/2026, 3:01 pm
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2025 Funding successes - Annual Report 2025

Funding successes for our Investigators and their research programmes during 2025.

Modified: 25/07/2026, 3:11 pm

Created: 7/06/2026, 8:15 pm
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2025 Awards - Annual Report 2025

MacDiarmid Institute Principal and Associate Investigators who have received awards this year.

Modified: 25/07/2026, 3:11 pm

Created: 7/06/2026, 7:52 pm
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Sci Fi/Sci Fact: Beanstalk

Dr Nate Davis on the science behind Jack and the Beanstalk - could we use plants to reach the stars?

Modified: 28/05/2024, 10:59 pm

Created: 8/05/2024, 8:24 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: 23/11/2023, 3:39 pm

Created: 24/02/2023, 2:07 pm
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Sci Fi/Sci Fact - Futurama: Jumbonium

Dr Nate Davis, explains Jumbonium as: a tennis-ball-sized atom with the electrons orbiting.

Modified: 4/04/2022, 2:42 pm

Created: 9/03/2022, 10:39 am
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Sci Fi/Sci Fact - Flubber: Fun or Frightening?

Dr. Nathaniel Davis, Associate Investigator and Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington looks at the scientific potential of Flubber.

Modified: 7/01/2022, 4:43 pm

Created: 10/12/2021, 10:27 am
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New Kyoto University on-site lab opens at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

Kyoto University’s Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) today opened an on-site lab in Wellington, operated jointly with the MacDiarmid Institute.

Modified: 29/11/2021, 10:22 am

Created: 26/11/2021, 2:20 pm
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Materials: Fact or Fiction - Jumbonium

Dr Nate Davis, Victoria University of Wellington Senior Lecturer gives his scientific take on Jumbonium from Futurama.

Modified: 23/07/2021, 10:38 am

Created: 6/07/2021, 12:48 pm
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Materials: Fact or Fiction - Flubber

Dr Nate Davis discusses the science behind Flubber on RNZ Nights with Bryan Crump.

Modified: 10/07/2020, 12:51 pm

Created: 26/06/2020, 11:01 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: 27/05/2020, 10:57 pm

Created: 27/05/2020, 10:25 pm
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