SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A group of South Korean scientists has developed new battery material, the science ministry said Monday, in what could bring significant changes to mobile devices and electronic cars. The team led by Kang Jeong-ku of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) discovered a hybrid type of [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – A team of South Korean researchers has developed a new type of graphene for lithium-ion batteries that can be recharged at a faster rate than conventional ones with no risk of reduced capacity, they said Monday. Conventional graphene is a two-dimensional atom-thin sheet of carbon that is commonly produced [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – KAIST (the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) is measuring its students’ biosignals in an effort to prevent suicide. According to the university’s KI Health Science Research Institute, wearable devices that can measure biosignals were distributed to 350 students, starting in April. The institute is operating a pilot project that [...]
DAEJEON, Feb.25 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean researchers have developed Ultra Low Power (ULP) augmented reality (AR) glasses that can detect finger movement, allowing users to play a virtual piano or type with a virtual keyboard. KAIST announced that Professor Yoo Hoi-joon and his team in the electrical engineering department developed ‘K-Glass 3’, which is a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea’s wearable thermo-element technology, which can recharge batteries through skin contact, was selected as one of the top innovations of the year by UNESCO. The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) announced on January 29 that its “wearable thermoelectric device” was selected as one of the top ten IT [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean government will focus their efforts to promote 270 degree movies, thermoplastics, and fuel cells, according to an announcement from the third public-private meetings of the ‘Creative Economy.’ The meeting was held to draft a plan for a second flagship project. The flagship project concept was initiated by the [...]
Korean engineers have developed a 10-nanometer ultra-fine printing technology for the first time in the world that can print high-performance smart sensors on a mass-production basis(Image: KAIST) SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean engineers have developed a 10-nanometer ultra-fine printing technology for the first time in the world that can print high-performance smart sensors [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology said on November 11 that its students won the first place award selected by the participants of the Student Innovation Contest, an event held in conjunction with the User Interface Software and Technology 2014 Conference. Sponsored by the U.S. Association for Computing Machinery, [...]
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 [...]