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Critical Minerals, Material Solutions - Christchurch (24 September)

In the last event of this series, Aaron Marshall and Brooke Matthews will discuss what scientists could make instead of using critical minerals.

Modified: 7/09/2026, 12:48 pm

Created: 7/09/2026, 12:37 pm
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Critical Minerals, Material Solutions - Wellington (16 September)

Join us in Wellington, where Nicola Gaston and Chris Bumby will discuss what scientists could make instead of using critical minerals.

Modified: 3/09/2026, 12:37 pm

Created: 21/08/2026, 2:38 pm
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Critical Minerals, Material Solutions - Hawke's Bay (7 September)

Join us in Napier, where Anna Garden and Erin Leitao will discuss what scientists could make instead of using critical minerals.

Modified: 21/08/2026, 2:31 pm

Created: 21/08/2026, 2:18 pm
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Critical Minerals, Material Solutions - Tauranga (17 August)

Join us in Tauranga, where Nicola Gaston and Joseph Nelson will discuss what scientists could make instead of using critical minerals.

Modified: 25/08/2026, 11:22 am

Created: 12/08/2026, 1:17 pm
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Two affiliated start-ups are finalists in the 2026 KiwiNet awards

KiwiNet today announced that two MacDiarmid Institute affiliated start-up companies have been selected as finalists in the 2026 KiwiNet awards.

Modified: 6/08/2026, 8:46 pm

Created: 6/08/2026, 2:16 pm
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Our affiliated start-ups in the media

Our affiliated start-ups in the media

Modified: 3/08/2026, 6:01 pm

Created: 4/06/2026, 4:37 pm
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Growing within a 'world-class scientific community' - our new PhD students tell us why they chose to be part of our research

Our new PhD students from NZ and around the globe on why they chose to be part of our research.

Modified: 17/08/2026, 3:01 pm

Created: 3/06/2026, 6:47 pm
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MOFs - true platform technology - Annual Report 2025

It’s not every year that a Nobel Prize aligns with a research area where New Zealand has real expertise.

Modified: 25/07/2026, 3:08 pm

Created: 31/05/2026, 7:52 pm
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From farms to fuel: turning cow burps into clean energy - Annual Report 2025

Agriculture faces a climate dilemma as herds of livestock emit methane, a greenhouse gas 28 times more potent than CO2.

Modified: 25/07/2026, 3:08 pm

Created: 31/05/2026, 7:22 pm
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Dr Christopher Larsen

Chris received his PhD from the University of Otago (2016), supervised by Professor Nigel Lucas and Professor Keith Gordon. He then held postdoctoral positions in the group of Professor Oliver Wenger at the University of Basel as a Swiss Government Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2019), then at the Stanford PULSE Institute with Professor Kelly Gaffney and Dr Amy Cordones-Hahn (2019-2021). In 2021, Chris started his independent research group at the University of Geneva as a SNSF Ambizione Fellow, then joined the University of Auckland as a Lecturer in 2022.

Modified: 7/05/2026, 8:31 am

Created: 7/05/2026, 8:21 am
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Nine Kiwi startups could offset emissions at the scale of NZ forests

Today’s launch of the New Zealand Cleantech Impact Report 2026 shows New Zealand has a pipeline of Cleantech companies with…

Modified: 24/04/2026, 2:21 pm

Created: 22/04/2026, 4:00 am
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From farms to fuel: turning cow burps into clean energy

MacDiarmid Institute science is staking out a future that enables our agricultural sector to continue feeding the world while tackling its thorny emissions challenges, with researchers tackling the methane issue from both ends - capturing the potent gas at source and converting it into valuable products for the future.

Modified: 30/03/2026, 4:09 pm

Created: 30/03/2026, 1:19 pm
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