SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean research team succeeded in developing stretchable and transparent electrodes using hybrid structures of graphene–metal nanotrough networks which show high performances and ultimate uniformity even when it is folded in half or is pulled. The research team comprised of Park Jang-ung, professor at Ulsan National Institute of Science [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean start-up venture set up by a university student received a huge amount of capital investment from Silicon Valley venture capitalists. IAMCOMPANY, a firm operating a free education information app “IAMSCHOOL,” succeeded in inducing 1.5 billion won (US$1.48 million) from three venture capital firms. Its app funnels school announcements [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) –Korean scientists came up with a new artificial muscle that is more durable and has an effective operating period ten times longer than current artificial muscles. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said on August 6 that a research team led by Oh Il-kwon, Professor at the Korea Advanced [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Garbage cans in Seoul have disappeared from the streets since the implementation of the volume-based waste disposal scheme in 1995, but now the city government looks to re-install them for the first time in 20 years. Only this time, however, the cans will be movable ones. An official in [...]
DAEJEON, South Korea, Sept 03, 2013 (Korea Bizwire) – Looking for a parking space for hours at a busy shopping mall or being stuck on roads jammed with cars releasing large amounts of carbon dioxide are all-too-familiar scenes for city dwellers. A group of researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) recently developed [...]
GUMI, Korea, August 09 (Korea Bizwire) – The Online Electric Vehicle (OLEV), developed by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), is an electric vehicle that can be charged while stationary or driving, thus removing the need to stop at a charging station. Likewise, an OLEV tram does not require pantographs to feed power from [...]