Group 1 - The report titled "Engineering Science and Technology for Future Industries 2025 (New Materials)" highlights a "bipolar dominance" in global materials science higher education, with the US leading with 91 universities and China ranking second with 66 universities [1] - The report indicates that while China leads in the quantity of basic research, it is still catching up in the layout of core high-value patents [1] - The second tier of countries includes Germany (35 universities), the UK (29), France (27), and South Korea (24), while India (23), Japan (22), Australia (21), and Italy (20) show close competition in the number of universities [1] Group 2 - The report identifies a trend of "differentiated layout under converging competition" in global policies for new materials, with countries focusing on strategic areas like semiconductors, batteries, and key magnetic materials [2] - Specific countries are pursuing unique directions based on their industrial characteristics, such as France focusing on nuclear materials and the UK advancing graphene research [2] - A list of ten future new materials is provided, including carbon fiber composites, wide bandgap semiconductor materials, solid-state electrolyte materials, biodegradable polymers, flexible electronics, nanomedicine carriers, high-temperature superconductors, ceramic matrix composites, high-entropy alloys, and photonic crystal materials [2]

Group 1 - Xinhua Jin has reached horizontal cooperation agreements with Nanjing University and Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) for research on electronic skin and flexible electronic materials technology [1] - The cooperation also includes exoskeleton robots and embodied intelligence technology with Professor Cheng Wen from Nanjing University and Professor Leng Yuquan from Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen) [1] - On the same day, Xinhua Jin completed a donation signing with the China Science and Technology Development Foundation [1]