Graphene-Info: the graphene experts

Researchers at Rice University, together with collaborators from the University of Manchester, the University of Brighton, the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, the University of Sussex, and Pennsylvania State University, have shown that sub-nanometer-scale wrinkles in graphene can generate a strong electrical polarization simply by bending, without any added chemistry or dopants. The effect, known as flexoelectricity, was predicted theoretically in graphene in 2008 but had not previously been directly measured at this scale.

Flexoelectricity describes polarization induced by a strain gradient, and it can occur even in materials that would otherwise show no polarization at all. In three-dimensional materials, competing electromechanical effects tend to mask it, but atomically thin two-dimensional materials offer a cleaner setting to isolate strain-driven polarization. In principle, bending a two-dimensional sheet tightly enough can perturb the out-of-plane orbitals that carry its electrons, generating a "quantum" flexoelectric response distinct from classical charge separation across a deformed membrane. Confirming this quantum contribution experimentally has been difficult, since most prior work accessed curvatures several orders of magnitude gentler than the atomic-scale bending needed to perturb individual orbitals.

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Levidian has launched NanoFlow-S1-20, the first product in its new NanoFlow range of graphene dispersions, designed to make it faster and easier for the coatings industry to evaluate and adopt graphene in existing solvent-based formulations.

NanoFlow-S1-20 is a high-concentration coating additive containing 20 wt.% of Levidian's G3 graphene, pre-dispersed in xylene. It is designed as a drop-in solution that can be blended using standard paint mixing equipment, either into Part A of a two-part coating system or directly into a one-part formulation. The aim is to remove one of the persistent barriers to graphene adoption in coatings: incorporating high-quality graphene consistently and efficiently without formulators having to develop their own dispersion processes from scratch.

Stockholm-based Bright Day Graphene, which produces graphene material from lignin, a residual product of the forest industry, has raised €3 million in an early-stage funding round led by Oji Holdings Corporation, a major Japanese paper and pulp manufacturer. The company will use the capital to scale up its sustainable graphene production for industrial use.

Founded in Sweden in 2017, Bright Day Graphene makes high-performance graphene materials for energy storage and electronics using a proprietary process designed to reduce the environmental impact of manufacturing. The new funding will go toward scaling production capacity, expanding commercial networks across European and Asian markets, and further application testing in energy storage, coatings and advanced electronics.

Researchers at the University of Duisburg-Essen and Uppsala University, led by Carolin Frank together with Prof. Marika Schleberger and Prof. Daniel Primetzhofer, have experimentally observed rainbow scattering in ion transmission through single-layer graphene, a phenomenon that had previously only been predicted and simulated, never directly measured.

Rainbow scattering is a well-known effect in classical scattering theory, arising when particles following different trajectories converge onto the same characteristic angle. It appears in contexts ranging from ordinary rainbows to nuclear and crystal scattering, and it encodes detailed information about the interaction potential between a projectile and its target. Applying this to graphene had been an attractive but elusive target: capturing the effect requires both an extremely clean, defect-free single-layer graphene sample and a detector with very high angular resolution, since even minor surface contamination smears out the pattern.

Researchers at Peking University, led by Liu Kaihui, together with Suzhou Laboratory, ShanghaiTech University, Wuhan University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Physics, have developed a way to grow rhombohedral-stacked graphene with high purity and at sizes far beyond what was previously achievable, addressing a longstanding obstacle to using the material in quantum computing hardware.

Most graphite and graphene research has focused on conventional AB-stacked layers, in which each layer sits in a staggered, alternating pattern relative to the one below. Rhombohedral, or ABC-stacked, graphene instead shifts every layer in the same direction, with each three-layer sequence repeating - a subtle structural difference that gives rise to superconductivity and the quantum anomalous Hall effect, making it an attractive platform for topological qubits that are inherently resistant to noise. The catch is that rhombohedral stacking is thermodynamically unstable and rare in nature: in the lab, ABC-stacked graphene tends to spontaneously revert to the far more common AB form, and until now the only way to obtain usable flakes was to mechanically exfoliate graphite and search under a microscope for the small fraction - under 1% of samples - that happened to have the right stacking.

Solidion Technology (Nasdaq: STI), the advanced battery developer that emerged from the 2024 merger of Global Graphene Group's Honeycomb Battery Technology with Nubia Brand International, has reported its Q2 2026 results, showing a substantially rebuilt balance sheet and a second straight quarter of revenue.

The company closed the quarter with $27.7 million in cash and cash equivalents, against $0.2 million at the end of 2025. Following the completion of its $35 million private placement in June, Solidion said the substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern, previously disclosed, has been alleviated. The company also restructured its August 2024 equity financing, eliminating all Series C and D pre-funded warrants along with the associated derivative liability - a move it says reduces future dilution risk. Long-term investors Madison Bond LLC and Bayside Project LLC converted their entire warrant allocation into common stock and agreed to lock-up restrictions on those shares.