SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Chem Ltd. said Wednesday it broke ground for its fourth carbon nanotube (CNT) plant in South Korea, to more than double output of the key industrial material in the next few years. The CNT 4 plant, to be located in LG Chem’s Daesan complex, in Seosan, about 83 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A research team from Hanyang University, in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin and other multinational teams, has developed a unipolar artificial muscle that is three times more powerful than other products. The joint research team discovered that coating a carbon nanotube with ion-exchange resin can allow [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – A research team at the Korea Institute for Basic Science (KIBS) has developed a new type of supercapacitor that can store as much energy as typical commercialized lithium-ion batteries. Supercapacitors are high-capacity electrochemical capacitors, which can store 10 to 100 times more energy than electrolytic capacitors. The synthesis of supercapacitors is [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the sluggish petrochemical market due to low global economic growth and low demand from China, LG Chem plans to overcome the situation with a two-track strategy of reinforcing technology-based business and developing new materials. LG Chem, a leading electric vehicle battery maker, made the two-track business plan to [...]