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Sci Fi/Sci Fact: Tenet

Professor Bill Williams talks us through the science of time travel in Tenet, the 2020 sci-fi film by Christopher Nolan.

Modified: 28 May 2024, 11:03 pm

Created: 17 May 2024, 10:18 pm
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Sci Fi/Sci Fact podcast takes off - Annual Report 2023

A further six episodes of our Sci Fi/Sci Fact podcast with Bryan Crump have aired in collaboration with RNZ.

Modified: 5 Jun 2024, 7:04 am

Created: 14 Apr 2024, 11:31 pm
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Sci Fi/Sci Fact - Axonite

Professor Bill Williams discusses Axonite from Dr Who - a 'thinking' material that can replicate any substance.

Modified: 28 May 2024, 5:29 pm

Created: 18 Jul 2023, 2:04 pm
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Journal Covers - Annual Report 2021

This page lists the various scientific journal covers that featured MacDiarmid Institute Investigators work in 2021.

Modified: 2 Jun 2022, 6:38 pm

Created: 2 Jun 2022, 3:47 pm
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Rethinking computing and communication, by combining cell biology with nanotechnology

Systems that blend biology with electronics could answer some big questions.

Modified: 16 Aug 2022, 12:39 pm

Created: 6 May 2022, 12:55 pm
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Adapting to the online environment

As classes and meetings moved online in March as Aotearoa New Zealand entered Level 4 lockdown, we adapted our community outreach activities to the virtual environment.

Modified: 24 Jan 2022, 11:33 am

Created: 31 Mar 2021, 6:13 pm
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Pulling microfluidics out of a hat

For Dr Rob Ward and MacDiarmid Institute Principal Investigator Professor Bill Williams, commercialisation is the end point of a long learning process.

Modified: 1 Apr 2021, 11:35 am

Created: 31 Mar 2021, 3:49 pm
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The emerging field of mechanobiology

Physics biology collaborations are forging mechanobiology – a research area key to understanding health and disease.

Modified: 1 Apr 2021, 11:33 am

Created: 31 Mar 2021, 9:42 am
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Materials: Fact or Fiction - Tenet

Professor Bill Williams explains the science behind time travel and entropy in Christopher Nolan's Tenet.

Modified: 5 Mar 2021, 11:02 am

Created: 11 Feb 2021, 1:28 pm
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Materials Fact or Fiction - Kryptonite

Professor Bill Williams, Principal Investigator gives us his scientific take on Kryptonite from DC Comics' Superman.

Modified: 11 Feb 2021, 1:34 pm

Created: 8 Dec 2020, 10:36 am
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Materials: Fact or Fiction - Nelson (10 November)

Professor Bill Williams and Dr Erin Leitao give their scientific take on whether fictional materials could be reality in a not too far off future.

Modified: 14 Oct 2020, 11:25 am

Created: 24 Sept 2020, 8:26 am
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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: 27 May 2020, 10:57 pm

Created: 27 May 2020, 10:25 pm
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