At InterBattery 2026 in Seoul, South Korean battery companies put all-solid-state battery materials front and center, offering a public snapshot of how far the technology has moved from lab work toward industrial preparation.
Graphene Manufacturing Group has won U.S. EPA approval to import and sell its graphene-based coating in the United States, a commercial milestone that could help expand the company’s graphene platform while its aluminium-ion battery program continues through development.
A Nature Communications paper published April 3, 2026 describes a mechanofusion-based dry mixing process that can form functional coatings on nickel-rich cathode material for solid-state batteries, including nanometer-thin layers and thicker mixed-conducting matrices.
HydroGraph said on February 24, 2026, that it has secured U.S. EPA and UK and EU REACH clearances for its graphene materials, a regulatory milestone that could help the company move more directly into coatings, polymers and other commercial applications.
Argonne National Laboratory researchers reported April 9 that they can map and tune skyrmions in an atom-thin ferromagnet, a result that could help designers push spintronic memory beyond the limits of conventional microelectronics.
A new Nature Materials issue published in April 2026 spotlights direct visualization of the moiré potential in rhombohedral graphene, a step that could help researchers design 2D-material devices with tighter control over electronic behavior.
