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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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Patenting - Annual Report 2023

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

Modified: 5/06/2024, 6:52 am

Created: 14/04/2024, 6:54 pm
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2023 Funding successes - Annual Report 2023

Funding successes for our Investigators and their research programmes during 2023.

Modified: 5/06/2024, 6:39 am

Created: 13/04/2024, 7:58 pm
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Inspired by the brain: Networks of nanoparticles can compute like 'spiking' neurons - Annual Report 2023

The human brain may be the most energy efficient computing system to have existed, requiring just 12 watts of power.

Modified: 5/06/2024, 6:32 am

Created: 12/04/2024, 10:33 pm
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Our research programmes over the years

There has been an evolution to move the focus of applications more towards global challenges of climate change and sustainability.

Modified: 19/04/2023, 6:33 pm

Created: 18/04/2023, 7:41 pm
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The MacDiarmid Institute turns 20

To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we took a look back at how we began and found it all began with a napkin.

Modified: 15/07/2025, 8:57 am

Created: 24/03/2023, 5:01 pm
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Funding successes - Annual Report 2020

Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2020. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.

Modified: 16/03/2022, 4:09 pm

Created: 24/03/2021, 3:42 pm
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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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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: 16/03/2022, 4:05 pm

Created: 8/04/2019, 12:37 am
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Professor Simon Brown

Professor Simon Brown is based at the University of Canterbury. Simon has a BSc (Hons) degree from Victoria University of Wellington and a PhD. from the University of Cambridge, UK.

Modified: 6/08/2024, 10:38 am

Created: 14/02/2019, 2:38 pm
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Computer chips that work like human brains may ease global energy problem

Professor Simon Brown and his research regarding neuromorphic computer chips is featured on TVNZ and at the idealog.

Modified: 16/06/2019, 1:17 pm

Created: 6/03/2018, 12:00 am
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MI Investigators successful in MBIE Endeavour Round 2016 & Smart Ideas

12 of our Investigators were successful in MBIE 2016 Endeavour Round and are involved in both Smart Ideas and Research Programmes.

Modified: 16/06/2019, 1:36 pm

Created: 18/10/2016, 12:00 am
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