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 Materials Science Tetrahedron Materials science is a multidisciplinary field focusing on functional solids, whether the function served is structural, electronic, thermal, chemical, magnetic, optical, or some combination of these. ... Jump to: navigation, search A mite next to a gear set produced using MEMS, the precursor to nanotechnology. ... Jump to: navigation, search Victoria University of Wellington is the oldest university in Wellington, New Zealand, established in 1897 as the fifth constituent college of the University of New Zealand by an Act of Parliament. ... In the New Zealand state sector, a Crown Research Institute or CRI consists of a State-owned, semi-commercialised entity charged with conducting scientific research. ...

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 seven Centres of Research Excellence throughout the country. Alan Graham MacDiarmid (born April 24, 1927) is a chemist. ... List of Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry from 1901 to the present day. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article is about the year 2000. ...

The Institute divides its work into five "themes":

• Nanoengineered materials
• Electronic materials (electro-optics and superconductivity)
• Conducting polymers
• Soft materials (rheology, fluid mechanics, porous media)
• Advanced materials (inorganic nano-structured materials, inorganic polymers, hybrid materials)

The Institute's current Director is Professor Paul Callaghan, a specialist in nuclear magnetic resonance. Nanoengineering is the practice of engineering on the nanoscale. ... Jump to: navigation, search Electro-optics is a branch of technology involving components, devices and systems which operate by modification of the optical properties of a material by an electric field. ... Jump to: navigation, search A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor (with boiling liquid nitrogen underneath) demonstrates the Meissner effect. ... Almost all organic polymers are electrical insulators. ... Rheology is the study of the deformation and flow of matter. ... Jump to: navigation, search Fluid mechanics is the subdiscipline of continuum mechanics that studies fluids, that is, liquids and gases. ... Pacific Northwest National Laboratorys high magnetic field (800 MHz) NMR spectrometer being loaded with sample. ...

External link

• MacDiarmid Institute website