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Advanced materials

Early commercialmomentum 384,052 papers in 3 months (+42% yearly)$860M 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, 2026

Papers per monthOpenAlex journal and conference papers; January includes papers dated by year only; the last two months are still filling in
01.4k2.8kSep 24Mar 25Sep 25Mar 26

Dots under a month: dated events tracked here that month.

19 events

DateEvent
Sep 2026
Sep 15Europe’s first HTS factory plannedFusion Industry Association· AnnouncementUnverified
Jul 2026
Jul 20CuspAI raises $450M at a $2.6B valuation and launches AI Materials Foundrytheguardian.com· Funding
Jan 2026
Jan 22Neurophos raises $110M to build metamaterial optical AI processorstechcrunch.com· Funding
Nov 2025
Nov 24US launches the Genesis Mission to use AI for sciencewhitehouse.gov· Policy
Nov 12VEIR targets data centers with megawatt-class superconducting power linestechcrunch.com· Announcement
Oct 2025
Oct 29Metal and MXene thin films show strong electromagnetic shieldingnature.com· Breakthrough
Oct 8Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to the creators of metal-organic frameworksnobelprize.org· Milestone
Sep 2025
Sep 30Periodic Labs launches with a $300M seed to automate materials sciencetechcrunch.com· Funding
Apr 2025
Apr 2Fudan builds a RISC-V processor from 2D semiconductor transistorsnature.com· Breakthrough
Mar 2025
Mar 20Bulk nickelate superconductivity near 40 K at ambient pressure reportednature.com· Breakthrough
Mar 12Chinese Academy of Sciences team makes 2D metals at angstrom thicknessnature.com· Breakthrough
Feb 2025
Feb 20Lumotive raises $45M Series B for light-control metasurfacesoptics.org· Funding
Feb 19Microsoft unveils Majorana 1 chip built on a topoconductor materialnews.microsoft.com· Announcement
Jan 2025
Jan 16Microsoft publishes MatterGen, a generative model for new materials, in Naturenature.com· Breakthrough
Dec 2024
Dec 19Stanford and SLAC report ambient-pressure superconductivity in nickelate filmsnature.com· Breakthrough
Oct 2024
Oct 16Meta releases the OMat24 open materials dataset and modelsarxiv.org· Milestone
Jun 2024
Jun 18CuspAI raises $30M seed for a generative AI materials search enginetechcrunch.com· Funding
Jun 12Black Semiconductor raises EUR 254.4M for graphene chip interconnectstechcrunch.com· Funding
Jan 2024
Jan 3Researchers make a semiconducting form of graphene on silicon carbidenature.com· Breakthrough
About advanced materials here
Sub-areas
2D materials and graphene, Metamaterials and metasurfaces, AI-discovered materials, Superconductors, Metal-organic frameworks, Autonomous materials labs
Stage evidence
Early commercial, Jun 10, 2026: Paragraf says it mass produces graphene-based electronic devices using standard semiconductor processes. paragraf.com
Momentum
38 of 100: the mean of its ranks among the tracked fields for paper growth (75), funding in 12 months (25) and events in 90 days (13). Method
Papers
16,993 in the 12 months ending two months ago, +42% against the 12 before (OpenAlex topics, journal and conference papers).
Tracked here since
Sep 25, 2026

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