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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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Associate Professor Jack Chen in the media

Associate Professor Jack Chen in the media

Modified: 18/06/2026, 2:04 pm

Created: 18/06/2026, 1:56 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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Emulating biology to make simple cells - Annual Report 2025

The hunt for chemical systems that can carry out multiple tasks efficiently, and reconfigure themselves for different purposes.

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

Created: 31/05/2026, 6:51 pm
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Dr Laura Cobus

Laura obtained her PhD from the University of Manitoba in Canada in 2016. She moved to the Institut Langevin (ESPCI) in Paris, France for postdoctoral work, and performed a second  postdoc at the University of Auckland before becoming an independent Research Fellow there. In 2024, she settled into a Senior Lecturer position at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch.

Modified: 15/05/2026, 3:48 pm

Created: 15/05/2026, 1:41 pm
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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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Weaving solutions to tackle waterway pollution

From harakeke-woven filters to light-driven chemistry, MacDiarmid Institute researchers are reimagining how Aotearoa New Zealand can clean its waterways through innovations that unite modern materials science and Māori knowledge

Modified: 1/04/2026, 5:01 pm

Created: 19/03/2026, 4:45 pm
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Borrowing from biology for green chemistry solutions to pollutants

In the hunt for chemical systems that can carry out multiple tasks efficiently, and reconfigure themselves for different purposes, our researchers at Massey University and at the University of Auckland are finding the best inspiration comes from the biological cell.

Modified: 12/02/2026, 6:32 pm

Created: 10/02/2026, 10:39 am
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Call for Post-Doctoral Fellowship Proposals

The MacDiarmid Institute invites applications for new Post-Doctoral Fellowship Proposals.

Modified: 13/04/2026, 2:37 pm

Created: 16/12/2025, 4:15 pm
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