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Three MacDiarmid Institute researchers (plus one affiliated company) are finalists in the 2025 KiwiNet Awards

Three MacDiarmid Institute researchers (plus one affiliated company) are finalists in the 2025 KiwiNet Awards. Principal Investigator Professor Aaron Marshall, and Associate Investigators Dr Michel Nieuwoudt and Dr Ben Mallett have been shortlisted for the KiwiNet Research Commercialisation Awards.

Modified: 7/08/2025, 2:27 pm

Created: 7/08/2025, 8:32 am
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Showcasing climate innovation: Cleantech takes the lead in Christchurch

When University of Canterbury Professor Aaron Marshall first heard of the high cost of recycling zinc waste, he didn’t realise…

Modified: 16/07/2025, 3:52 pm

Created: 16/07/2025, 1:27 pm
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Celebrating Matariki values in our research

Deputy Director Māori, Associate Professor Pauline Harris, explores some of our research that relates to the values of Matariki.

Modified: 15/07/2025, 8:49 am

Created: 19/06/2025, 6:13 pm
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2024 Cluster hui - Annual Report 2024

30 researchers, from undergraduate students right through to the most veteran of researchers, attended the Thin Films Hui.

Modified: 18/07/2025, 2:28 am

Created: 14/06/2025, 10:50 pm
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The healing partnership of silicone and sulphur - Annual Report 2024

The qualities that make silicones so useful make them very hard to recycle, and most used silicone goes to landfill.

Modified: 18/07/2025, 2:27 am

Created: 14/06/2025, 8:49 pm
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Welcome to our Investigators in new roles

We welcome ten new Principal Investigators and ten new Associate Investigators

Modified: 15/07/2025, 8:51 am

Created: 2/04/2025, 10:15 am
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Dr Joe Chen

Joe Chen completed his PhD at the University of Canterbury on image reconstruction algorithms for serial crystallography using X-ray free-electron lasers (XFEL). He then moved to sunny Arizona, USA, as a postdoc in the Physics Department at Arizona State University, honing his skills in XFEL-related things. Now he has returned to New Zealand as a lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Canterbury.

Modified: 13/03/2025, 9:05 pm

Created: 13/03/2025, 9:00 pm
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Turning Waste into Wealth

‘Recycling less than 10% of plastics is a disaster for the planet.

Modified: 13/03/2025, 1:59 pm

Created: 12/03/2025, 12:35 pm
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Celebrating International Women's Day 2025

As part of International Women's Day IWD2025, we're celebrating our younger researchers and some of their recent achievements 

Modified: 15/07/2025, 8:52 am

Created: 11/03/2025, 8:56 am
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MacDiarmid Institute researchers successful in latest MBIE round

The MacDiarmid Institute is pleased to share the following successes from its researchers in this year’s MBIE Endeavour Fund round.

Modified: 23/09/2024, 9:30 am

Created: 20/09/2024, 12:58 pm
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On a mission to disrupt the US$45 billion global surfactant industry with greener alternatives

AUT-based Associate Investigator, Dr Jack Chen, has today been announced as a finalist for the 2024 KiwiNet Sprout Agritech Breakthrough Innovator…

Modified: 23/01/2025, 1:03 pm

Created: 29/08/2024, 11:27 am
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Quarterly newsletters

We send newsletters as a quarterly update of what the Institute been up to as well as a way for us to share with you events, and opportunities to stay connected with the MacDiarmid Institute.

Our Alumni Newsletter is a quarterly update of what the Institute been up to as well as a way for us to share with our alumni jobs and events, and opportunities to stay connected with the MacDiarmid Institute whānau.

Modified: 30/05/2025, 10:57 am

Created: 10/06/2024, 7:39 pm
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