Battery storage becomes the fastest-growing power technology as AI demand reshapes the market
Battery storage has moved from a supporting role to a central grid technology, with the International Energy Agency saying it was the fastest-growing power-sector technology in 2025 and Reuters reporting a rapid industrial pivot toward stationary storage for data centers.
Covalent launches a metrology platform to speed up advanced materials troubleshooting
Covalent on April 23 launched Covalent Connect, a platform designed to consolidate advanced materials characterization into one workflow as companies face more complex analysis needs across semiconductors, energy storage and biotech.
DARPA opens graphene production inquiry as Pentagon looks for scalable manufacturing data
DARPA has opened a fresh inquiry into graphene production and manufacturing, asking industry to detail capabilities, limits and costs in a move that points to growing defense interest in scalable supply chains for the material.
Amcor opens $35 million healthcare coating plant in Malaysia to speed sterile packaging output
Amcor has opened a new healthcare packaging coating facility in Malaysia, adding regional capacity for coated medical paper used in sterile device packaging and expanding its advanced manufacturing footprint in Southeast Asia.
Hememics and General Graphene move 32-plex graphene biosensors closer to scale production
Hememics Biotechnologies and General Graphene say they have manufactured more than 100,000 graphene biosensors, marking a manufacturing milestone for a 32-plex diagnostic platform aimed at faster point-of-care testing.
Graphene superlattices show gate-controlled spin switching in latest Nature Communications study
A new study in Nature Communications reports gate-controlled inversion of spin signals in graphene superlattices, a result that adds a practical control knob to graphene spintronics research and could inform future low-power device designs.