Early commercialmomentum 5717,924 papers a year (+47%)$560M raised in 12 months20 companies
New materials engineered at the atomic scale, like one-atom-thick sheets or sponge-like crystals, with properties ordinary materials lack.
Why early commercial: Paragraf says it mass produces graphene-based electronic devices using standard semiconductor processes. Jun 10, 2026This week: A superconducting brain chip is being developed to manage fusion plasma.
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Pranos Fusion aims to finalize designs for its larger PRANIK tokamak in 2027, building on its PRAGYA research machine. The company highlights high-temperature superconducting magnets and India's manufacturing capabilities as key to reducing costs and advancing domestic fusion development. The post I
On Monday, Brookhaven National Laboratory debuted a superconducting chip designed to help monitor fusion plasma in real time. The lab developed it with other U.S. Department of Energy facilities and the AI hardware start-up Great Sky. The post A superconducting ‘brain’ chip races to keep up with fus
UK Atomic Energy Authority CEO Dennis Whyte highlighted growing competition between China and Western nations to commercialize fusion energy, citing China's rapid development of fusion technology and supply chains. He emphasized advances in superconducting magnets, AI, and research as key to acceler
Chinese fusion company Startorus Fusion has completed cryogenic testing of its high-temperature superconducting central solenoid model magnet, achieving a reported record magnetic field change rate of 63 T/s and a peak field strength of 10 T. The milestone advances magnet development for the company
Commonwealth Fusion Systems has signed a supply agreement with Tokyo-based Fujikura Ltd to buy 10,000km (6,213.7 miles) of high-temperature superconducting tape for use in its planned fusion power plant. The post Commonwealth Fusion inks deal for over 6,200 miles of high-tech tape critical to operat
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Meta FAIR released the OMat24 open inorganic materials dataset and models.
Runs an AI search engine and materials foundry network for new materials.
Manufactures high-temperature superconducting magnets for compact fusion tokamaks.
Duke and Metacept spin-out building metamaterial-based optical processors for AI inference.
Built GNoME, a deep learning tool that predicted 2.2 million new crystals.
Built MatterGen for generative materials design and the Majorana 1 topoconductor chip.
Publishes on Advanced materials at National Institute for Materials Science: 360 papers in 2 years.
Publishes on Advanced materials at National Institute for Materials Science: 293 papers in 2 years.
Publishes on Advanced materials at Nanjing Agricultural University: 172 papers in 2 years.
Publishes on Advanced materials at Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas: 90 papers in 2 years.
Made 2D metals such as bismuth and tin at angstrom thickness by van der Waals squeezing.
Released the OMat24 dataset and pretrained models for inorganic materials.
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Mayk Caldas Ramos, Christopher J. Collison, Andrew Dickson White · Chemical Science
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