Graphene Manufacturing Group Limited is pleased to announce that the patent for the Company’s Graphene Aluminium Ion Battery has been granted in Australia and GMG is progressing its patenting process in various other countries. The University of Queensland (UQ) holds the patent and GMG has a worldwide exclusive commercialisation license. Figure 1 shows a typical Graphene Aluminium Ion Battery Pouch Cell Prototype which GMG is currently co-developing with Rio Tinto and UQ.
Furthermore, GMG has signed a Collaborative Research Agreement with UQ – Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) to continue its collaboration on the Graphene Aluminium Ion Battery. UQ is also a recipient of AU$880,000 of Australian Government grant funding to further develop the Graphene Aluminium Ion Battery.
GMG and UQ started working on an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project in 2021 to co-develop the Graphene Aluminium Ion Battery and this will now continue under this new Collaborative Research Agreement.
The Agreement sets out, among other things, the way in which pre-agreed GMG and UQ personnel can work at each other party’s premises and the intellectual property rights and obligations for each party. It also provides that GMG has the exclusive first right to negotiate an exclusive license to use any of the work UQ develops under this Agreement.
UQ’s Professor Alan Rowan, AIBN Executive Director, commented “We look forward to continuing our strong research and development relationship with the world leading clean technology company GMG and deepening our knowledge on the graphene aluminium ion battery technology.”
GMG’s Managing Director and CEO, Craig Nicol, commented: “GMG is very pleased to continue working with the world leading UQ AIBN team and collaborating with them to co-develop our next generation Graphene Aluminium Ion Battery.”
As previously announced on March 3, 2025, GMG has entered into a service contract with the Battery Innovation Center (BIC) of Indiana in the United States of America to support the next phase of development of the Graphene Aluminium Ion Battery. As a result, GMG is no longer focused on a project to construct an Automated Battery Pilot Plant at its Richlands Australia headquarters at this time. GMG and the State of Queensland have mutually agreed to an early termination of the Queensland Critical Minerals and Battery Technology Fund Agreement between the parties.
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