The KCG group had their group meetings in Wellington and Dunedin this afternoon.  Khansa, Saniga, Anam and Sana met in the Wellington cable car during the MacDiarmid meeting and Peter, Lisa, MJ, Skyler and Keith enjoyed a great talk in Dunedin.

A new publication in Joule (impact factor = 35.4) highlights the use of asymmetric separators to control ion nucleation in sodium ion batteries.  This can greatly increase performance.  This is part of a collaboration between Keith Gordon and Professor Guiyin Xu (Donghua University).  Citation: Asymmetric bulk toward energy-dense fast-charging sodium metal batteries, T. Zhang, X. Li, […]

The MacDiarmid Institute recently ran their MI Research Programme meetings and CRISP in Wellington, 9-10 April 2026.  A lot of group members went to it and contributed as part of the MESA group

Peter just had a book chapter published with the Royal Society of Chemistry.  The Chapter entitled “The Use of Emission and Resonance Raman Spectroscopy to Examine Structural Changes upon Photoexcitation in Metal Complexes”  is part of Photofunctional Materials: Photoactive Coordination Complexes (part of the Inorganic Materials Series) edited by Paul A Scattergood.  The chapter lays out […]