Graphene Manufacturing Group appointed a former Rio Tinto technical executive on April 22, 2026, and said its Gen 2.0 graphene plant in Queensland remains on track for completion by the end of June.
Graphene Manufacturing Group said on April 15 that its graphene aluminium-ion battery cells doubled energy density to 49 Wh/kg, while maintaining six-minute charging performance over hundreds of cycles. The company says customer testing is planned for 2026 and small commercial production for 2027, but the program remains at battery technology readiness level 4.
UC Santa Barbara researchers say they have identified the quantum mechanism behind hot-carrier degradation in silicon chips, showing that a single energetic electron can trigger bond breaking at the silicon-oxide interface.
CoatingSolution4U won a Bronze Edison Award on April 20, 2026 for SlurryXpert, a real-time diagnostic system that tracks battery electrode slurry behavior before coating defects spread through production.
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science have reported a low-defect method for growing centimeter-scale 2D magnetic chromium chloride films, a fabrication step that could help move the material class from lab-scale flakes toward usable electronic and spintronic platforms.
Graphene Manufacturing Group said its six-minute-charging graphene aluminium-ion battery cells doubled energy density to 49 Wh/kg, a development that brings the program closer to customer testing later in 2026 and small commercial production in 2027.
