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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 Professor at Loughborough University), then 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.

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MacDiarmid researchers celebrate 40 years of Germany/NZ science co-operation with German President Steinmeier

Professor Sally Brooker and Dr Renee Goreham celebrate science collaborations with German President Steinmeier and his wife Elke Büdenbender.

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Created: Jan 25, 2018, 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.

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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.

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Created: Jul 10, 2015, 12:00 AM
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Sally Brooker - environmentally-friendly plastics

Professor Sally Brooker is using metal catalysts to develop cheap, envoronmentally-friendly plastics for use in a host of applications.

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