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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: 18/06/2026, 8:21 am

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: 17/06/2026, 8:59 pm

Created: 10/06/2024, 7:39 pm
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MacDiarmid Independent Postdoctoral Fellowships - Annual Report 2023

We welcome Dr Caitlin Casey-Stevens, Dr Amy Yewdall, and Dr Bicheng Zhu with Independent Postdoctoral Fellowships.

Modified: 5/06/2024, 6:36 am

Created: 13/04/2024, 6:58 pm
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Weaving Mātauranga Māori with contemporary science to create sustainable materials for water purification - Annual Report 2023

The structure of harakeke (New Zealand flax) closely mirrors that of polymeric membranes often used in water purification.

Modified: 11/05/2025, 2:19 am

Created: 12/04/2024, 11:48 pm
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