MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology
The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (often simply called the MacDiarmid Institute) is a New Zealand research organisation specialising in materials science and nanotechnology. It is based at Victoria University of Wellington, although it also draws on other universities and on two Crown Research Institutes.
The Institute is named after Alan MacDiarmid, a New Zealander who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (with two others) in 2000. It was established by the government as one of eight Centres of Research Excellence throughout the country.
The Institute divides its work into six "themes":
- Nanofabrication and Devices
- Electronic and Optical Materials (including superconductivity)
- Molecular Materials (including conducting polymers)
- Soft Materials (including rheology, fluid mechanics, porous media)
- Hybrid Materials (inorganic nano-structured materials, inorganic polymers, hybrid organic/inorganic materials)
- The Intersection of Nanoscience and Biology
The Institute's current Director is Professor Kate McGrath. A former Director was Professor Sir Paul Callaghan, a specialist in nuclear magnetic resonance.
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