Congrats to Sam and Peter who recently published Sam’s honours project on analysis of water in collaboration with the DCC.  The paper, published in the Journal of Water Process Engineering 77 (2025) 108474 was  entitled “Characterization of New Zealand drinking water source variation over time and between sources using fluorescence spectroscopy” used excitation emission maps […]

Congratulations to Khansa on her recent paper in The Journal of Physical Chemistry A.  The work, entitled, “Impact of Tuning the Structure of Dibromo‑9H‑fluorene-9-ylidene Acceptor-Based Dyes on the Optical and Electronic Properties for Photonic Applications“,  describes the photophysical properties of three dibromo-fluorene-9-ylidene-based dyes using experimental spectroscopy and DFT calculations.  The findings  highlight how tuning the […]

On Thursday (August 14) Te Whai Ao – the Dodd Walls Centre – had a workshop on how Quantum tech and advanced photonics might impact on Agri-Tech and what opportunities.  Speakers included Dr Cathy Folay (previously the Chief Science Advisor to the Australian Government), Keith Gordon and Dr Steve Holroyd (Fonterra).  There were a wide […]

Te Whai Ao – the Dodd Walls Centre – has been this week with highlighting the importance of Quantum Technology.  On Monday the Director of the Centre (Prof Frederique Vanholsbeeck), Director of Quantum Technology Aotearoa  (Professor David Hutchinson) and Deputy Director Science for Dodd Walls (Professor Keith Gordon) met with the Minister for Science (Hon […]