2021 MacDiarmid Institute Marsden grant successes

3 November, 2021

Researchers from the MacDiarmid Institute for advanced materials and nanotechnology research received $6.2 million funding across eight projects through the 2021 Te Pūtea Rangahau a Marsden, the Marsden Fund. Six projects are Standard grants and two are Fast Start grants specifically for early career researchers (ECR).

Established by the New Zealand government in 1994, the competitive Marsden Grant supports excellent fundamental research across humanities, science, social sciences, mātauranga, mathematics, and engineering for three years.

Congratulations to our successfully funded researchers!

Martin Allen University of Canterbury	Thinking outside the square! Discovering the design rules for a new class of highly-functional nanomaterials
Matthew Anker Victoria University of Wellington	Molecular Indium Phosphide: A Bottom-Up Approach to the Synthesis of InP Materials
Peng Cao University of Auckland	Keeping spatters at bay and in situ synthesis
Nicola Gaston University of Auckland Krista Steenbergen Victoria University of Wellington	Designing nanopatterns: exploring the "dark world" of binary liquid metals
Simon Granville Victoria University of Wellington	Magnetism without angular momentum; High speed low power cryogenic memory
Eric Le Ru Victoria University of Wellington	Electromagnetic scattering by particles of arbitrary size and shape with application to microplastics
Natalie Plank Victoria University of Wellington	How the nose knows? -Understanding the mechanisms in insect olfactory biosensor devices
Celina Sikorska University of Auckland	Superatoms: catalysts for CO₂ activation