Chemmat PhD Candidate wins award
Photo From Left: Chemmat’s Dr Saeid Baroutian, PhD Candidate Subhasree Bhasker, Des Mataga and Alan Routley from AUEA, Head of Chemmat, Associate Professor Ashvin Thambyah About the Awardee: Subhasree Bhaskar is a Doctoral Candidate at Chemmat. Subhasree...
Velocity Innovation Challenge winner
Photo: Chemmat PhD Candidate, Misagh Ebrahimpour Each year, the Velocity Innovation Challenge is held to encourage the University’s staff and students to share venture ideas to solve problems. The Faculty of Engineering is well represented in 2019’s...
3D food printer at Chemmat
Food comes in all shapes, sizes and textures. And now you can print your own food. Chemmat has recently obtained a Foodini 3D Food Printer. The Foodini works on the principle of food paste extrusion and has the capability to print five different food materials within...
‘Food’ of action in Christchurch
It was an exciting and delicious week in Christchurch. The New Zealand Food Safety Science & Research Centre (NZFSSRC) Annual Symposium and the New Zealand Institute of Food Science and Technology (NZIFST) Conference was held back-to-back in Christchurch...
Beer brewing at Chemmat
From left: Hugh Barlow, Leeju Kim, Stephanie Laycock, Kayla Fairbairn, and Hank Lloyd Beer brewing has started up again at Chemmat! The photo above was taken at the first brew group meeting while Chemmat’s Senior Technicians, Ray Hoffman and Peter Martin...
NZPA celebrates successful win
Photo From left: Brian McMath, Anthony Meyer, Shanghai Wei, Sudip Ray, Micheal Pervan, Jinjing Liu, Mark Jones, Mark Taylor, André van Haaren, Monique Bateman, Karnika De Silva, Harshpreet Singh On 18 June NZ Product Accelerator celebrated the continuation of their...
Chemmat’s ‘Paper of the Month’
In order to increase the coverage of department research, we are launching ‘Paper of the Month’. Each month, we will collect journal articles that have been published by staff members, as highlighted by our Google Scholar Alerts, and an ad hoc committee of a few...
Chemmat at Enginuity Day
Enginuity day is an annual event organised by the Women in Engineering, University of Auckland to inspire young women to consider careers in engineering and to discover what it is like to study engineering at the University of Auckland. This year, the event was...
NZ health care has a climate change problem
The health care sector may be as bad as the aviation industry when it comes to greenhouse gases and pollution. The anaesthetic gases released every year by one New Zealand hospital have the carbon footprint of 500 return flights between New Zealand and London,...
Science: Cold pasteurisation works
What happens when high pressure is applied to food and drink? If a domestic pressure cooker is used, the result might be a classic pot roast or a trendy smokey beef brisket. Both are good eating and achieved with about two atmospheric pressure, or roughly the...
A clean solution for gases
Photo: Chemmat’s Dr Saeid Baroutian Researchers at the University of Auckland have estimated that the anaesthetic gases released by one hospital annually in New Zealand have the carbon footprint of 500 return plane journeys between New Zealand and London....
Making food safe using pressure instead of heat
Photo: Chemmat’s Professor Mohammed Farid Professor Farid often depicts the pressure exerted in high pressure processing visually, as two elephants standing on a coin. The Ministry for Primary Industries recently approved the use of high pressure...
Celebrating the career of Professor John Chen
https://www.icheme.org/about-us/icheme-worldwide/new-zealand/kennedy-wunsch-lecture/On 15 July 2019, staff members and friends came together to celebrate the career of Professor John Chen, and wish him all the best for his retirement years commencing 1 Aug 2019. Current Head of Department Associate Professor Ashvin Thambyah welcomed guests and gave a...
Chemmat – well presented at Cambridge
In May we had a visit from Chemmat graduate Reece Oosterbeek, who is in the midst of an exciting PhD program at Cambridge University. Reece received a prestigious Woolf Fisher scholarship to undertake doctoral studies at the Department of Materials Science and...