Results and review
New Materials, Technologies and Services (NMTS) 2009/10 Concept results

The Foundation is investing approximately $10.8 million per annum for this round through the New Materials, Technologies and Services (NMTS) investment process.

This investment round is comprised of funds from four portfolios: High Value Manufacturing Processes, Products and Materials (MAN), Building Knowledge-Intensive Service Industries (SER), Future Human Technologies (FHT), and Creating Opportunities through New Physical Technologies (NPT).

We received 88 concepts requesting approximately $51.8 million. This represented overbidding by 480% of funds available. A total of 31 concepts, seeking $23.4 million per annum, were selected to progress to the proposal stage.

The following concept information was supplied by the applicants, who are responsible for its wording and accuracy. The Foundation is responsible for ensuring this information is consistent with the text supplied.

New Materials, Technologies and Services (NMTS) 2009/10 concepts accepted

View the organisation, funding, research leader and other details of the 31 concepts that were selected to progress to the proposal stage.

NMTS 2009/10 Concept Results (PDF)

Approved concepts, ordered by organisation

Organisation	Concept short title
Biopolymer Network Ltd (BPN)	Functional Biopolymers
Industrial Research Limited	Advanced Electrolysis Nanorods for Acoustic Microscopes Nanoscale Control Of Crystal Growth Preventing allergic diseases Renewable high performance coatings Upper limb measurement and assessment
Institute of Geological & Nuclear Sciences Limited - Trading as GNS Science	Ion Beam Technologies Transparent conducting metal oxide nanostructures
Massey University	New cathodes
New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research Limited	Electrospun fibres
NZ Heavy Engineering Research Association	Transforming the Metals Engineering Industry
Research Trust of Victoria University of Wellington	Building capability for magnetic resonance Golden Wool for Apparel & Textiles
University of Auckland	Advanced Magnesium Technologies Bioengineering technologies for breast and lung Extraction of transition metals Industrial Applications for Artificial Muscles Knowledge computation toolkit that enhances decision making Sustainable Composites Talking Heads Technologies for drug development
University of Canterbury	ORTHOMAG Refractory Reinforced Reformer Tubes Vision based automated cane pruning
University of Otago	Drugs for frailty Human GPCR drug targets Nano-antibiotics for animals - MRT Self-repair organic electronics
University of Waikato	Interactive Language Learning Titanium alloy powder consolidation capabilities