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Issue Fifteen

  • Architecture of the very small
  • Lighting Up the World
  • The MacDiarmid Discovery Awards 2009/10
  • Symposium 2009
  • Asia Nano Forum (ANF)- Asia Nanocamp 2009
  • The 2009 Asian Science Camp
  • In the spirit of the Fulbright Programme
  • Is it possible to make money from science in New Zealand?
  • New Principal Investigators
  • Life after leading MacDiarmid- a catch-up with Paul Callaghan
  • MacDiarmid Young Scientist of the Year Award and the Prime Minister’s Emerging Scientist Prize

 

Issue Fourteen

  • A Solar Sandwich
  • Coordination Chemistry
  • A Spirit of Collaboration
  • Drawing a Model of the Future - in pencil
  • It´s All in the Name
  • The MacDiarmid Institute Challenge
  • Nanocamp at Massey University
  • Cells in action: a solution of two sciences
  • Not Easy Technologies
  • The MacDiarmid Discovery Awards
  • Nanofabrication laboratory offi cially opened
  • Atamira in the City 2008

 

Issue Thirteen

  • MacDiarmid – a Necessary Luxury
  • Almaden Aventures
  • What’s Happening? – Theoretically
  • Extending the OE
  • The Student and Post Doc Symposium 2008
  • Being a PhD student in New Zealand
  • Scientists leading the way
  • Sensitive New Age Chemistry
  • The MacDiarmid Institute Discovery Awards

 

Issue Twelve

  • An Eye for Colour
  • Nature whispering softly
  • Mathematics for VIPs
  • Professor Paul Callaghan has left the building
  • Eyes Wide Open in Japan
  • The HOPE Meeting in Japan
  • Cooking Up Semiconductors
  • Kate and Conrad’s foray into grazing and refl ection with Mike and Bridget
  • And now for something completely different — ?
  • To Create Something Useful
  • Nanotechnology and the All Blacks

 

Issue Eleven

  • A Man for All Seasons
  • Third Student and Postdoc Symposium - 07
  • A Drunken Spider
  • Let’s get this Physics Show on the road!
  • Filled Roles
  • Raise a Glass to Science
  • Nano-ethics - no small matter!
  • NO SPEED LIMITS
  • Secrets of the world
  • Beyond the farm and the theme park

 

Issue Ten

  • Alan MacDiarmid Nobel Laureate
  • Pollock's Fractal Expressionism and Fractal Patterns in Nature
  • Where information travels at the speed of light
  • The Asian Nanotechnology Forum
  • AMN-3
  • Organocatalysis - very trendy!
  • One day in the life - Profiles of 3 extraordinary PhD students in the MacDiarmid Institute at the University of Canterbury
  • Complicated materials and messy chemistry
  • Korea - New Zealand AMN-3 Satellite Meeting

 

Issue Nine

  • From the surface to the scientific melting pot
  • Breaking the Mold
  • How well connected are the pores?
  • The facination of soft systems
  • IPENZ Pickering Lecture
  • Student and Postdoc Symposium 06: Research - Impact and Consequences
  • When nanoclusters collide
  • Using the 'weird' properties of quantum mechanics

 

Issue Eight

  • A dance of chance and purpose
  • International workshop strengthens and expands collaboration
  • A bit of an edge in quantum dots
  • A meeting of Science and Literature
  • Paper, Wool and Paint... but not as we know it
  • Mechanical Magic - Nature's 'Smart' Materials
  • Following their dreams
  • Local science - International Impacts

 

Issue Seven

  • Standard-bearer for Science
  • Postgraduate Students Take The Spotlight
  • Wonderful but Complicated
  • Looking at the Very Small
  • Super Science
  • A Master of the Game
  • Student Symposium: First of Many
  • A Few Rich Words
  • Hands on Physics Via the web

 

Issue Six

  • Rising to the Nanochallenge
  • Future in their sights
  • A cleaner energy source
  • Slip Slidin' Away
  • Metamorphosis from Academic to businessman
  • AMN -2 International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
  • Professor Samulski goes to Washington DC
  • Capturing the Cell
  • The French Connection

 

Issue Five

  • The endless opportunities of nanotubes
  • Looking to the Future
  • Battery breakthrough lasts longer
  • Branches on the electronics tree
  • magritek makes it small and portable
  • Providing a different dimension
  • Secrets of Superconductors
  • A new spin on electronics
  • Hormone talk
  • Responsible reseach and development of nanotechnology

 

Issue Four

  • Good news - all you need is one cell
  • Pablo Etcegoin works to push the detection of molecules to concentration limits
  • A week in San Diego
  • MacDiarmid science goes commercial
  • Magic really
  • Richard Blaikie's team develops new techniques in creating tiny components
  • Awhina Outreach
  • The miniature world of silicon nanowhiskers
  • Tips from sea urchins, paua and other master builders
  • Alan MacDiarmid in New zealand
  • Queen's Birthday Honours for the Chair of the MacDiarmid Board

 

Issue Three

  • There are still secrets to uncover
  • Describing the work of Prof. Officer and his team
  • Bright lights beckon for OLED research
  • >Looking at the future of OLEDs
  • Alan MacDiarmid in 2004
  • A helping hand from the MacDiarmid Institute
  • Collaborating while competing The case for significant and sustained investment by the FRST
  • Rheology in Pittsburg
  • Getting the Blues
  • Canterbury Outreach
  • Update on the Synchrotron Project
  • Patent battle victory
  • Singaporean focus

 

Issue Two

  • Emulating Nature
  • Exquisite ‘nano-flowers’
  • Brilliant colours
  • Groundbreaking research into bifringent and chiral coatings
  • Hoiho - pushing the boundaries
  • MacDiarmid Institute sponsors Awhina programme
  • Virtual meetings by video-conference
  • New honours for Alan MacDiarmid
  • The coming of the synchrotron!
  • European Research funding - the 6th Framework Programme
  • Rhode Island adventure
  • Victoria University recruits
  • Pablo Etchegoin
  • Mark Warner wins Agilent prize

 

Issue One

  • Three Nobel laureates visit New Zealand
  • Alan MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa and Alan Heeger
  • Nanotechnology: the Sum of Success
  • Mathematical modelling on the new MacDiarmid Institute supercomputer
  • Czeching out Progress in Glasses
  • High-tech, telecommunications-type glasses
  • MacDiarmid Institute Investigator Awarded Rutherford Medal
  • Canadian Nanotechnology Institute
  • New Nanobioscience Institute
  • Kiwi wins Inaugural Professorship