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Germans backing South Island green hydrogen research centre

A planned green hydrogen research centre in Dunedin now has the financial backing of both the New Zealand and German governments.

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Created: Oct 20, 2021, 1:52 PM
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Internationally connected

Nicola Gaston and Sally Brooker were invited to join a German Academic Exchange Service-funded delegation to Germany..

Modified: Apr 1, 2021, 11:33 AM

Created: Mar 31, 2021, 10:08 AM
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Journal covers

This page lists the various scientific journal covers that featured MacDiarmid Institute Investigators work in 2019.

Modified: Sep 7, 2020, 4:33 PM

Created: Aug 20, 2020, 3:37 PM
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Ambitious proposals for surplus electricity once Tiwai closes

Professors Sally Brooker and David Williams discuss options for using surplus electricity at the Manapouri power station.

Modified: Aug 11, 2020, 12:21 PM

Created: Aug 11, 2020, 11:56 AM
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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: Jun 11, 2020, 5:00 PM

Created: Jun 11, 2020, 2:00 PM
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Awards - Annual Report 2019

This article from our 2019 Annual Report provides information about the range of awards received by MacDiarmid Institute Investigators over the past year.

Modified: May 26, 2020, 6:06 PM

Created: May 26, 2020, 4:58 PM
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Fuelling NZ’s future with smart catalysts - Annual Report 2019

Professor Sally Brooker is leading a new collaboration combining chemistry and engineering to help fuel NZ's future.

Modified: Mar 19, 2020, 11:56 AM

Created: Mar 8, 2020, 12:17 PM
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Not-so-modest proposals for Tiwai

An ambitious solution would keep jobs in Southland and deliver on the promise of the Zero Carbon Act.

Modified: Jan 28, 2020, 12:37 PM

Created: Dec 10, 2019, 10:02 AM
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Connecting with researchers at UCLA - Annual Report 2018

The discovery of conducting polymers – plastics that conduct electricity – won New Zealander Alan MacDiarmid the Nobel Prize in 2000.

Modified: May 30, 2019, 7:41 AM

Created: Apr 8, 2019, 12:44 AM
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2018 funding successes - Annual Report 2018

Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2018. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.

Modified: May 30, 2019, 5:12 PM

Created: Apr 8, 2019, 12:37 AM
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Journal covers - Annual Report 2018

This page lists the various scientific journal covers that featured MacDiarmid Institute Investigators work in 2018.

Modified: May 30, 2019, 6:22 PM

Created: Apr 8, 2019, 12:02 AM
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Professor Sally Brooker

Sally did her PhD with Dr Vickie McKee at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand (Vickie is now a Visiting Research Professor in Syddansk Universitet, Odense, Denmark and Adjunct Professor in Dublin City University, Ireland), and a postdoc with Professor George Sheldrick (of SHELX fame) at Göttingen University in Germany. She then returned to NZ to take up a lectureship at the University of Otago, the first position she applied for, where she is now a full professor and currently one of 7 inaugural Sesquicentennial Distinguished Professors (2020-2024). Sally is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Royal Society of New Zealand and New Zealand Institute of Chemistry and in 2018 was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to science, MNZM. Other recent awards include: Francis Lions Memorial Lecturer (Sydney University, 2018), RSNZ Hector Medal for outstanding work in chemical, physical or mathematical and information sciences (2017), 28th Inorganic Chemistry Award of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute (RACI), the Burrows Award (2017), and the University of Otago Distinguished Research Medal (2017), and the inaugural triennial Curtis Lecture (Victoria University Wellington, 2015). She loves supervising her large, multinational, highly productive and high impact research team (over 210 papers to date, h = 47 Web of Science, PhD 1989), Brookers Bunch.

Modified: May 19, 2021, 3:21 PM

Created: Feb 14, 2019, 2:38 PM
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