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20 years of alumni

The faces of the MacDiarmid Institute over the last 20 years.

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Alumna Dr Shalini Divya wins 2021 KiwiNet Breakthrough Innovator Award

Alumna Dr Shalini Divya of affiliated spinout TasmanIon wins 2021 KiwiNet Breakthrough Innovator Award

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Created: Dec 1, 2021, 11:02 AM
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The magic of a dream

Many students dream of undertaking a PhD, Dr Shalini Divya is now commercialising research in aluminium-ion batteries with her PhD.

Modified: Aug 3, 2021, 4:39 PM

Created: Apr 21, 2021, 4:19 PM
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Alumni stories - Annual Report 2018

Over 850 MacDiarmid Institute alumni are now using their expertise to make amazing scientific breakthroughs, mentor students, achieve commercial success, and be business leaders. Our alumni have amazing stories to tell.

Modified: May 30, 2019, 6:12 PM

Created: Apr 8, 2019, 12:05 AM
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Business scholarships

We offer a limited number of competitive scholarships for our alumni to undertake further postgraduate study in business-related areas.

Modified: Nov 20, 2023, 9:45 AM

Created: Feb 25, 2019, 3:41 PM
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Luke Liu: Metal-Organic Frameworks

Luke Liu builds molecular sponges—known as metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs, these molecular sponges have the potential to store and separate industrial compounds such as hydrogen, methane and carbon dioxide with high efficiency. The energy required to separate these compounds using current methods is high—for example, about a third of the power generated from coal burning is used to capture the carbon dioxide from the post-combustion gas mixtures produced during the coal burning process.

Modified: Jun 16, 2019, 1:07 PM

Created: Jul 10, 2015, 12:00 AM
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Matthew Cowan: Silver ions to the rescue!

We’re often told that obliging industry to significantly reduce energy consumption and energy-related emissions would be bad for business and the economy. There may be some truth in that, but it also seems apparent that if there was the political and economic will, there would be the scientific ways.

Modified: Jun 16, 2019, 1:07 PM

Created: Jul 10, 2015, 12:00 AM
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Nick White: Inspiring alumnus

MacDiarmid Institute alumnus, Dr Nick White was born in the UK, but grew up in New Zealand and completed his BSc (Hons) at the University of Otago, and PhD at the University of Oxford. He sat down with Kate Hannah to discuss his science, and what has inspired him throughout his remarkable career trajectory.

Modified: Jun 16, 2019, 1:06 PM

Created: Jul 10, 2015, 12:00 AM
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