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Patent applications - Annual Report 2022

One of the early considerations on the path to market for materials science is what should be patented and why.

Modified: Apr 21, 2023, 1:40 PM

Created: Apr 20, 2023, 8:06 PM
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Funding successes - Annual Report 2020

Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2020. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.

Modified: Mar 16, 2022, 4:09 PM

Created: Mar 24, 2021, 3:42 PM
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Patents and Spinouts 2019 - Annual Report 2019

This article from our 2019 Annual Report provides information about the MacDiarmid Institute's latest inventions, patents and spinouts.

Modified: May 27, 2020, 10:57 PM

Created: May 27, 2020, 10:25 PM
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Funding successes - Annual Report 2019

Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2019. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.

Modified: May 27, 2020, 10:21 PM

Created: May 26, 2020, 6:06 PM
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Element of the Week - Iridium (Ir)

Associate Professor Ben Ruck introduces the element Iridium on RNZ Nights' Element of the Week.

Modified: Jan 24, 2022, 4:07 PM

Created: May 24, 2019, 3:38 PM
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2018 funding successes - Annual Report 2018

Funding successes for our investigators and their research programmes during 2018. This funding enables our researchers and collaborators to continue their breakthrough research in advanced materials and nanotechnology.

Modified: Mar 16, 2022, 4:05 PM

Created: Apr 8, 2019, 12:37 AM
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Industry pathways for science graduates - Annual Report 2018

How do you go from a physics lab to Rocket Lab? Or from a chemistry lab to a new start-up company?

Modified: Dec 21, 2022, 1:36 PM

Created: Apr 8, 2019, 12:12 AM
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Associate Professor Ben Ruck

Ben completed a PhD at Victoria University of Wellington before undertaking postdoctoral work at in the Molecular Beam Epitaxy Laboratory of Professor Tom Tiedje at the University of British Columbia. He returned to New Zealand on a FRST Postdoctoral Fellowship working with Professor Joe Trodahl before taking a position on the academic staff at Victoria University in 2003.

Modified: Apr 21, 2019, 9:21 PM

Created: Feb 14, 2019, 2:38 PM
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2018 Lecture Series: MacDiarmid - to Industry and Beyond!

Associate Professor Ben Ruck (Victoria University of Wellington) and Dr Harry Warring (Rocket Lab) talk about their lives and work.

Modified: May 21, 2019, 6:49 AM

Created: Sep 26, 2018, 12:00 AM
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MacDiarmid researchers successful in latest MBIE round

The MacDiarmid Institute is pleased to share the following successes from MacDiarmid researchers in this year’s MBIE Endeavour fund round.

Modified: Jun 16, 2019, 1:29 PM

Created: Sep 14, 2018, 12:00 AM
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How to cool down your data

Whether you’re mining bitcoin or Googling yourself, you’re creating a lot of heat somewhere.

Modified: Sep 28, 2021, 3:08 PM

Created: Jul 19, 2018, 3:01 PM
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3 Into the Communtiy - Annual Report 2017

The MacDiarmid Institute has a long history of supporting sustained community engagement activities by our investigators, from the DiscoveryCamp programme for Māori and Pacific Island high school students that has been running since the Institute was founded, to the physics teachers’ workshops developed by Professor Michele Governale and Associate Professor Ben Ruck over the last three years.

Modified: Oct 20, 2021, 9:16 PM

Created: Jul 2, 2018, 12:00 AM
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