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Why do people with depression have increased permeability of the gut? Why is altered gut motility an early sign of Parkinson's Disease? Another fantastic Plenary - from Prof Roisin Owens from @cambridgeuni.bsky.social on using #conducting #polymers to understand the gut-brain-microbiome axis
#AMN11
February 13, 2025 at 9:00 PM
'Wind and sun alone won't do the job'. The incredible Beatriz Roldan Cuenya Director of @fhi-mpg.bsky.social delivering her #AMN11 Plenary on why understanding how the active sites of an #catalyst change is critical to green #energy generation and storage technologies #H2 #CO2 #materials #science
February 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Celebrating women and those of marginalised gender identities for IUPAC #GWB2025 here at #AMN11, together with our friends from NZIC and Canterbury Uni Profs Sarah Masters and Richard Hartshorn, plus @aucklanduni.bsky.social Prof @fredvh.bsky.social
'Accelerating #Equity in #Science'.
February 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
'Tackle something big. Don't let anyone (not even your professor) tell you what can be done. Our naive-ness keeps us alive.'
Great advice from Plenary speaker Jackie Y. Ying, from King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre in Riyadh.
#AMN11 #antimicrobial #nanoparticles #CO2 to #methanol
February 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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What a way to kick off AMN11 —a plenary by 2023 Nobel Laureate Moungi Bawendi!
#AMN11, #quantumdots, @macdiarmidinsti.bsky.social
February 9, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Welcoming Professor Kitagawa and our other friends from Kyoto University iCeMS to our two day workshop here in Te Whanganui a Tara talking #materialsscience and soft #porous #crystals #Science #chemistry #mofs and more
February 18, 2024 at 11:19 PM
Ahead of this Sunday's United Nations #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience we celebrate our three independent postdocs (awarded 2023) Dr Caitlin Casey-Stevens, Dr Amy Yewdall, and Dr Bicheng (Amy) Zhu #WomenInScience #materials @aucklanduni.bsky.social
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February 8, 2024 at 11:45 PM
Remembering today our namesake Professor Alan MacDiarmid (14/4/27-7/2/07) who won a
Nobel Prize in #Chemistry in 2000 for his research into conducting #polymers, a research area still key to the work of the Institute macdiarmid.ac.nz/news-and-eve...
February 6, 2024 at 11:43 PM
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Structure/properties of GEFSIX-21-Cu detailed in our latest report on ultramicroporous sorbents, in ACS_AMI pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

High C2H2/CO2 selectivity, unlike the CO2 selective SIFSIX-18-Ni variant. Another collaboration with Mike Z's group at Uni Limerick @macdiarmidinsti.bsky.social
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January 28, 2024 at 8:31 PM
Nau mai whakatau mai to ten rangatahi from around the motu here for our 15th annual week-long #discoverycamp kicking off at our VUW #nanotechnology and #materialsscience labs, making #solarcells using organic pigments from fresh berries #Science #STEM
January 23, 2024 at 10:22 PM
How to make solar electricity cheap?

Our Associate Investigator Dr Nate Davis says… just move light sideways!

Some cool reading during this summer heat: thespinoff.co.nz/science/05-1...
How to make solar electricity cheap? Move light sideways
Vanessa Young visited Dr Nathaniel Davis's lab to witness the concentrated capture of the sun's energy.
thespinoff.co.nz
January 20, 2024 at 11:00 PM
While you’re out enjoying the sunshine this summer, take a moment to imagine the next generation of solar panels - pliable, light and portable.

Prof Justin Hodgkiss, from Victoria University of Wellington is investigating the possibilities: thespinoff.co.nz/science/03-1...
Black, bendable, lightweight and cheap: inside the coming solar panel revolution
When it comes to solar panels, the future is flexible. Vanessa Young discovers how a MacDiarmid project is unlocking the possibilities of a new generation of solar cell technology.
thespinoff.co.nz
January 12, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Meri Kirihimete from all of us here at the MacDiarmid Institute. Posting some more photos here from our Annual Symposium.
We wish you all a safe and healthy holiday season.
December 20, 2023 at 10:26 PM
Ending the year with highlights from last week's Annual Symposium - celebrating the amazing research of our independent postdocs Canterbury's Dr Amy Yewdall, VUW-based Dr Caitlin Casey-Stevens + @aucklanduni.bsky.social's Dr Bicheng (Amy) Zhu #carboncapture #science #catalysts #ammonia #materials
December 14, 2023 at 8:43 PM
Awesome to kickoff our Dec CRISP training for our PhD students with 'Landing your first high impact job' today with interview practice, CV writing, handling difficult questions, 'speed-dating' and more. Thanks to Hays Recruitment, Technical Recruitment Solutions Ltd & MfE and all.
December 6, 2023 at 2:50 AM
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Professor Geoffrey Waterhouse was awarded the MacDiarmid Medal for discovering low-cost nanocatalysts critical to global decarbonisation efforts and the establishment of robust energy infrastructures based around renewables.
November 27, 2023 at 1:36 AM
AI comes with huge #data (and therefore #CO2) cost. This
successful Marsden Fund project from @aucklanduni.bsky.social's Dr Charlie Ruffman and VUW's Dr Krista Steenbergen will use computers to better understand liquid metals so we can make better #electronics macdiarmid.ac.nz/news-and-eve...
November 17, 2023 at 4:43 AM
More @MarsdenFund 2023 success with a #sustainability impact.
Looking for everyday metals to make #greenhydrogen in a way that's better for everyone's wallet and the Earth.
Otago University Profs Keith Gordon & James Crowley
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November 14, 2023 at 11:19 PM
Meet the World’s Smallest Kiwi. To help raise funds for Save the Kiwi, our PI Assoc Prof Volker Nock at UoC used one of the world’s highest resolution 3D printers to print a micrometre-sized kiwi only visible through a superpowered scanning-electron microscope. savethekiwi.nz/worlds-small...
November 8, 2023 at 11:05 PM
Super proud of our Co-Director Prof Nicola Gaston who is tonight awarded the Thomson Medal by @royalsocietynz for
transformative leadership for the #research #Science and #innovation sector and as a ‘driver of change’ towards #equity for #womeninscience 🙌🥳🔬

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2023 Thomson Medal: Bold leadership for equity in the RSI system
Professor Nicola Gaston has been awarded the Thomson Medal by Royal Society Te Apārangi for transformative leadership for the research, science and innovation sector and as a ‘driver of change’ t...
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November 8, 2023 at 8:40 AM
Very cool to see two of our affiliated start ups, Liquium and bspkl highlighted this week as award nominees at the LaFrenchTech awards at GridAKL. A fantastic event and perspectives on international connectivity 🙌
November 3, 2023 at 6:53 PM
Congrats to all 2023 Marsden grant recipients. Read more here about the MacDiarmid Institute affiliated crew who received Marsden grants in this round www.macdiarmid.ac.nz/news-and-eve... 🙌 ⚛️ 🔬⚗️
Congratulations to all 2023 Marsden grant recipients - ka rawe!
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November 3, 2023 at 4:53 AM