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Graphene-Connect 2026 is shaping up to be one of the most content-rich virtual gatherings for the graphene and 2D materials community, with a program that spans manufacturing, standards, intelligent materials, energy, and next‑gen electronics. Held online on 11–12 March 2026 on the TechBlick platform and co‑curated with Graphene-Info, it offers live talks, networking, and year-round access to the full TechBlick library of over 1,500 talks. Graphene-Connect tickets start at our special early bird price of $400 (with discounts available for group passes).

Why join Graphene‑Connect 2026?

• Live, online access to a world-class agenda covering graphene materials, batteries, electronics, composites, filters, concrete, EMI shielding, anti‑corrosion and more.
• Year‑round access to all recordings of this event plus past and future TechBlick online and onsite programs, including Perovskite Connect, MicroLED Connect, Batteries RESHAPED, and Electronics RESHAPED.
• A curated platform to reconnect the global industrial value chain after a pause in dedicated graphene conferences, with start‑ups, scale‑ups, national labs and major corporates all represented.

Industrial scale & manufacturing: General Graphene

From the production side, General Graphene Corporation will present “From Lab to Line: Advancing Roll‑to‑Roll CVD Graphene Manufacturing,” highlighting how continuous CVD processes are moving graphene from pilot runs to industrially relevant throughput. This talk, led by Tuqeer Nasir, is highly relevant for anyone interested in cost, scalability and integration of CVD graphene into real products across electronics, coatings and composites.

Graphene-Info is pleased to announce that registration is now open for Graphene-Connect 2026, our flagship two-day virtual event dedicated to graphene industrialization and innovation, taking place online on 11–12 March 2026, in collaboration with Techblick.

Graphene-Connect 2026, preliminary agenda

Graphene-Connect tickets start at our special early bird price of $400 (with discounts available for group passes).

Event overview

Graphene-Connect 2026 is the must-attend worldwide meeting place for the graphene industry, bringing together the full value chain from material producers to end users. The live online format combines a curated technical program with advanced networking tools and virtual exhibition spaces, designed to make remote participation feel as close as possible to an in‑person conference.

World-class agenda

The agenda is jointly curated by Graphene-Info and Techblick, with talks spanning graphene materials, production processes, electronics, energy storage, composites, sensors, filtration, anti-corrosion coatings, concrete, textiles, neural interfaces and more. The program mixes visionary keynotes, industrial case studies, metrology and standards updates, as well as deep-dive technical talks, ensuring relevance for both R&D experts and commercial decision-makers.

Graphite India Limited (“GIL”), one of India’s oldest and largest graphite materials companies, and Kivoro, a corporate spin-off of Graphenea and an innovator in graphene-based industrial additives, signed an Exclusive Distribution and Commercial Partnership Agreement to bring Kivoro’s graphene-based Heat Transfer Additive (HTA) technology to the Indian corrugated paperboard industry.

Under the agreement, GIL becomes the exclusive distributor of Kivoro’s Heat Transfer Additive across the Republic of India, focusing on deployment within the corrugated paperboard sector - a fast-growing, efficiency-driven industry where thermal performance improvements can significantly reduce energy consumption and costs.

Graphenea Semiconductor, a leading graphene foundry company and Melexis (Euronext Brussels: MELE), a global supplier of micro-electronic semiconductor solutions, have announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate the development and evaluation of Melexis’ integrated GFET-on-CMOS platform for advanced biosensing.

The initiative aims to address some of the key challenges in biosensor adoption: simplifying complex readout electronics and improving sensitivity while ensuring reliability and scalability. By combining Melexis’ expertise in semiconductor integration with Graphenea’s knowhow in graphene transistors, the collaboration represents a step from laboratory prototypes to real-world deployment. Potential applications include medical diagnostics, such as cancer biomarker detection, neurological and infectious diseases detection, and broader biosensing applications like environmental sensing of PFAS.

Researchers at AMO, Graphenea Semiconductor and Emberion recently demonstrated a 200 mm processing platform for the large-scale production of graphene field-effect transistor-quantum dot (GFET-QD) hybrid photodetectors. Such sensors have many potential applications, ranging from surveillance, search and rescue, and vehicle safety to improved sorting of food and food packaging to reduce their environmental impact. 

Schematic of the device architecture of the tandem GFET‒QD photodetector. Image from: Scientific Reports

The team addressed several of the graphene wafer-scale integration challenges, including monolayer graphene chemical vapor deposition (CVD), transfer, and patterning, which fulfill the requirements for imaging functionalization and large area deposition of the multilayer QD absorber material in an inert atmosphere, as well as methods for encapsulating devices using thin film alumina (Al₂O₃) and hermetically sealed semiconductor packages. Such a demonstration elevates the initial concept to higher technology readiness levels in multiple dimensions, ranging from wafer-scale graphene device statistics to the development of custom CMOS circuits and the implementation of production-ready packaging.

Researchers from AMO, Graphenea and RWTH Aachen University have, as part of the European experimental pilot line for electronic and optoelectronic devices based on graphene and related two-dimensional (2D) materials, namely the Experimental Pilot Line (2D-EPL) project, reported the results obtained during the first and third multi-project wafer (MPW) runs completed at the end of 2022 (MPW run 1) and 2023 (MPW run 3). 

The Experimental Pilot Line (2D-EPL) project, that aims to advance the widespread commercialization of electronic devices based on graphene, published the new report that summarizes the results of two multi-project wafer (MPW) runs, utilizing electrical and spectroscopic characterization to demonstrate the high quality of production in the 2D-EPL. MPW run 1 was intended mainly for graphene-based sensors, in particular chemical and biosensors, while MPW run 3 focused on graphene electronics. 

The EU-funded MEGAMORPH project, which started in 2022, demonstrated its graphene-based display technology at Displayweek 2024.

The idea behind the project is to use CVD graphene sheets (produced by Graphenea, a partner in the project) as the semi-transparent membranes in a Interferometric Modulator Display. These kinds of displays use mechanical micro-mirrors as pixels that modulate the ambient light without using power to generate light. IMOD displays are promising as they can offer very low power operation and high density displays.

A new Horizon Europe funded project was launched in October 2023. With a consortium of 11 partners from 8 different countries, the Next-2Digits project aims to develop the next generation of sensors and imagers enabled by 2D materials digital integration. Next-2Digits will run for 3 years and 3 months.

Coordinated by the National Technical University of Athens, Next-2Digits benefits from the presence of academic, research and industrial teams, whose areas of work span from graphene and 2D materials synthesis, characterization, manipulation, and integration, as well as in the fields of photonics, material science, application-based integration technologies and validation.

Researchers at Graphenea, University of Utah and Kairos Sensors have examined a perovskite-based graphene field effect transistor (P-GFET) device for X-ray detection. 

The device architecture consisted of a commercially available GFET-S20 chip, produced by Graphenea, with a layer of methylammonium lead iodide (MAPbI₃) perovskite spin coated onto the top of it. This device was exposed to the field of a molybdenum target X-ray tube with beam settings between 20 and 60 kVp (X-ray tube voltage) and 30–300 μA (X-ray tube current). Dose measurements were taken with an ion-chamber and thermo-luminescent dosimeters and used to determine the sensitivity of the device as a function of the X-ray tube voltage and current, as well as source-drain voltage. 

Researchers from Graphenea, Ikerbasque, BCMaterials, Center for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials (CIC biomaGUNE) of the Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), University of the Basque Country UPV-EHU, University of Trieste and Universidade da Coruña recently reported a graphene field effect transistors (GFET) array biosensor for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, using the human membrane protein involved in the virus internalisation: angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2).

By finely controlling the graphene functionalization, by tuning the Debye length, and by deeply characterizing the ACE2-spike protein interactions, the team managed to detect the target protein with an extremely low limit of detection (2.94 aM).