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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
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'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
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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'.
'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
What a way to kick off AMN11 βa plenary by 2023 Nobel Laureate Moungi Bawendi!
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AMN11 kicks off in under two weeks! Follow AMN11 here on BlueSky Social @amn11.bsky.social for updates.
#nanotechnology #materials #science
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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
18.02.2024 23:19 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Ahead 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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'Alan MacDiarmid...would extol investment in innovation, challenging people to consider whether the country would lead or follow in science and technology in the 21st century.'
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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...
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
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
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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...
While youβre 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...
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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.
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
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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.
06.12.2023 02:50 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Well done Geoff! @macdiarmidinsti.bsky.social
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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...
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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Meet the Worldβs Smallest Kiwi. To help raise funds for Save the Kiwi, our PI Assoc Prof Volker Nock at UoC used one of the worldβs highest resolution 3D printers to print a micrometre-sized kiwi only visible through a superpowered scanning-electron microscope. savethekiwi.nz/worlds-small...
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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 βdriver of changeβ towards #equity for #womeninscience ππ₯³π¬
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Great to see acknowledgement of the ambition of liquium and also the role of fundamental research in university labs in addressing the physical science challenges behind decarbonisation technologies β highly commended in the Tech for Good category π
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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 π
03.11.2023 18:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It's great to see the strong thread of materials for sustainability research running through this list from the MacDiarmid Institute researchers successful in this round β»οΈ π π‘ π
03.11.2023 05:02 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Congrats 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... π βοΈ π¬βοΈ
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Delighted to join you all in these blue skies in recognition of the value of blue sky research, and to share our work in support of a greener planet
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