Latest Research Partnerships News

Pure Resources finished 2026 with $3.67 million in cash and no debt after raising $4.7 million, but its annual loss widened as it shifted from explorer to a Garnet Hills-led advanced materials platform. The company is now pursuing garnet abrasives, jumbo flake graphite and heavy rare earth recovery through US research and defence partnerships.

ACDC Metals has joined a U.S.-backed defence consortium, giving its Goschen Central rare earths project a route into government solicitations, research partnerships and potential offtake discussions. The membership is strategically significant, but it is not a funding award or contract.

Basin Energy has secured a three-year research collaboration with James Cook University to investigate improved extraction and recovery of heavy rare earths at its Sybella-Barkly project. The deal carries no cash payment, but JCU will own the resulting project intellectual property and data.

FirstWave Cloud Technology has lodged a provisional patent for an AI-driven network monitoring system that promises automated, explainable root cause diagnosis, aiming to boost its fastest-growing revenue stream.

RooLife Group (ASX:RLG) has completed a strategic acquisition to bolster its renewable energy division, acquiring project origination and delivery assets in the battery storage and hybrid power market. The deal is scrip-based, with most consideration contingent on future contract milestones.

RooLife Group (ASX:RLG) is expanding its renewable energy footprint by acquiring a battery storage and microgrid business and raising $1.06 million in a placement to fund growth and project delivery.

Victory Metals has delivered a major processing breakthrough with a 59-fold upgrade to a 7.1% Total Rare Earth Oxide concentrate from its North Stanmore project, backed by strategic partnerships and government funding.

Bayan Mining has partnered with The University of Queensland to push forward its patented yttrium processing technology, aiming to validate and optimise the process using Australian rare earth feedstocks and support pilot-scale development.

Nexsen has locked in over $1.5 million in non-dilutive funding through a national research partnership, accelerating manufacturing scale-up and platform optimisation for its rapid diagnostics technology.

NoviqTech Limited has clarified that its planned divestment of Non-Coralia assets was not foreseen during its Coralia acquisition and reflects a strategic pivot to biochar carbon removal, with leadership changes aligned to this refocus.

Control Bionics advances its neural-signal technology across assistive communication, sports, and medical sectors, securing key US reimbursement and distribution agreements while broadening its international footprint.

Micro-X has captured the first human head images using its innovative carbon nanotube cone beam CT technology, marking a major technical milestone as it launches a multi-centre pilot study aimed at stroke diagnosis.