Research centres and laboratories
Learn more about CIRCUIT, our research centre working towards shaping a sustainable circular economy, and discover our range of state-of-the-art labs.
CIRCUIT | Circular Innovations Research Centre

CIRCUIT is the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering's research centre, which is also associated with Ngā Ara Whetū Centre for Climate, Biodiversity and Society. At CIRCUIT, we connect world-class research with communities and commercial opportunities to develop solutions pertaining to the transition towards a circular economy.
Research laboratories
- Analytical Lab
- Bio Materials Lab
- Ceramics (Powder) Processing Lab
- Coatings & Energy Materials Lab
- Electrochemistry and Hydrogen Lab
- Food Engineering Lab
- Functional Nanostructures Lab
- Hazardous Prep Lab
- Heat Treatment & Mechanical Testing Lab
- Industrial Information and Control Lab
- Magnetron Sputter Lab
- Membrane Lab
- Metallography Lab & Specimen Preparation Lab
- Microbiology Lab
- Microfluidics Lab
- Nanomechanical Lab
- Optical Microscopy Lab
- Powder Metallurgy Lab
- Powder Metallurgy Lab
- Protein Biomaterials Lab
- Resource Recovery Lab
- TGA DSC Lab
- XRD XRF Lab