The MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology is New Zealand's premier research organisation concerned with high quality research and research education in materials science and nanotechnology. 30+ PhD studentships are now open across our research areas and partnership institutions. One scholarship is available to support study that builds on the recent discovery [Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 136808 (2013)] in Prof. Simon Brown’s group at the University of memristor behaviour in nanoparticle films to explore neuromorphic behaviour in those devices.