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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

  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”...

It was a successful outing at the IChemE AGM on the 17 May, which was held at Waikato University.  Isaac Severinsen represented the department and presented his work on digital twin for the IChemE Postgraduate Researcher of the Year competition.  Ramin Razmi...

Congratulations CHEMMAT PhD student, Gevargis Muramthookil Thomas, for winning the Social issues category of the Ideas challenge conducted by Velocity. Gevargis is under the supervision of Dr Filicia Wicaksana and Dr Shan Yi. The IDEAS Challenge was organised by...