Dr. Kaveh Shahbaz’s “Smart Idea” Gets Funded by MBIE.
I am excited to announce that our Smart Idea proposal, “Extracting Value from an Invasive Seaweed Using Applied Ecophysiology and Green Solvents,” has been successfully funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE)!This project aims...
Gisborne community team up with experts to combat climate challenges
A unique collaboration between the University of Auckland and an isolated valley community in Tairāwhiti Gisborne aims to reshape how the region confronts climate-related challenges. Around 40 community members of a local iwi from Whareponga Valley, located in the...
Dr. Shan Yi Wins Marsden Grant
Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering are using artificial intelligence (AI) to study the dangers of ‘forever chemicals’ – persistent compounds found in everyday items like non-stick cookware, paint and dental floss.These chemicals, known as PFAS (per- and...
Dry Seeds, dried powders
If you search online, you’ll be able to find sellers for freeze dryer machines small enough to fit in a kitchen. If you’re willing to spend a few thousand on one, it’s fun to see what happens to common, everyday food when you leave it in a freeze...
Magnets on magnets
Have you heard the story of 42.zip? It’s supposedly a compressed zip file that is only around 42 kB, but when fully uncompressed yields around 4500 TB of data. It’s an old file and there are many newer files which exceed even this limit. Yet even this is...
Oxygen-Infused Sewage Stew: Fuelling Tomorrow’s Energy
Sludge in wastewater treatment is the thick, semi-solid byproduct that settles out from the treated wastewater. This sludge can be broken down by bacteria in a process called anaerobic digestion, producing biogas that can be used as fuel to power the wastewater...
COVERT Operations
Title T. Source: Sean McGrath, Wikimedia Commons CC-BY 2.0 Have you ever thought of how the VFX people make realistic looking cloth and skin from math? One algorithm is called ‘Perlin noise’, created sometime in the 90s, and was revolutionary in computer...
Exploring Innovation in Landmine Disarmament: Tania Simpson’s Internship Experience at Tecnologίas MARTE.
As a second year Chemical and Materials Engineering student, I was in the midst of applying for any internships I could find. In doing so, I discovered an email from the University about The Intern Group, acompany who connects you to an international internship...
Sustainable Resource Recovery – The New Goldmine.
Inspiring Stories from Graduates of Chemical and Materials...
Obituary
Dr Isuru Udugama 24th June 1990 – 30th December 2023 “How can someone so full of life leave it so suddenly…” This was said by a close PhD mate of Dr Isuru Udugama when informed of his passing. Isuru was not just a social butterfly, he was a...
An Erudite Scholar is Recognized
An erudite scholar, Professor Mohammed Farid was recently awarded the prestigious President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) for Distinguished Scientist by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering...
Potential Chemical & Materials Engineers Tour Chemmat Labs
Chemical & Materials Engineering Department hosts Tamaki College Secondary School Chemmat hosted a group of 30 high school students (Year 11 and 12) and teachers from Tamaki College Secondary School on the 18th of October. The half day event started by...
Technical University of Denmark (DTU) Don Visits Chemat/UoA
Professor Krist visited the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering to widen out, and of course, he was not disappointed. From left to right: Prof Ashvin Thambyah, Prof Krist Gernaey, Dr Isuru Udugama, and Prof Brent Young. Krist is an avid coffee...
CHEMECA 2023
Chemical Engineering Conference (CHEMECA 2023), 1–3 October Chemmat in collaboration with IChemE (Institute of Chemical Engineering) hosted CHEMECA 2023 at the Hilton, Auckland. The conference theme was “Leading the Transition into a Sustainable Future”...