Professor KIM Youn Sang (Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology) has developed a transparent element which generates enough electricity to light an LED when it touches water. When a water drop touches the surface of an object with electric charge, a change in the object’s electric charge occurs. Professo...

Professor KANG Kisuk (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering) Professor KANG Kisuk (Department of Materials Science and Engineering) has developed original technology for the production of next generation lithium secondary cell batteries along with KAIST and the Agency for Defense Development. Lithium secondary cel...

SNU Center for Advanced Research in Fusion Reactor Engineering The SNU Center for Advanced Research in Fusion Reactor Engineering (CARFRE) has been designated one of the leading engineering research centers in the country by the Ministry of Education. CARFRE, which opened in 2008, has received a total of 8,000,000,000 ...

Professor JHE Wonho (Dept. of Physics and Astronomy) Professor JHE Wonho (Department of Physics and Astronomy) has discovered the mechanism of titanium dioxide’s superhydrophilicity. When superhydrophilic material absorbs light, water dropped onto it does not form waterdrops, but instead spreads out widely. Professor J...

David Pendlebury’s ‘New List of Highly Cited Scientists 2002~2012’ named three SNU Professors V. Narry KIM (left), HYEON Taeghwan, and SURH YoungJoon (right). Thomson Reuters analyst David Pendlebury who is well known for his ‘Nobel Predictions’ released ‘New List of Highly Cited Scientists 2002~2012’ in a symposium he...

Professor Roland Breitenfeld (Dept. of Composition) Professor Roland Breitenfeld (Department of Composition) has been teaching computer music and electronic music at SNU since 2006. He has worked on digitalizing Korean music, by computerizing the sound of Korean traditional instruments such as the janggu, gayageum and ...

Vacuum Energy Distribution in a Cavity Directly Imaged Professor AN Kyungwon's class Is the vacuum really empty? Professor AN Kyungwon of SNU Physics answers that it's not. The same question was asked by Paul A. Dirac 90 years ago. Surprisingly, he suggested that the vacuum is not empty, but filled with energy called t...

Professor PARK Tai Hyun (Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering) Professor PARK Tai Hyun (Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering) developed an electronic nose which can detect cancer in the cover article of the March edition of Advanced Healthcare Materials. His electronic nose uses odor receptor proteins f...

Professor LEE Takhee (Dept. of Physics) Professor LEE Takhee’s research team (Department of Physics and Astronomy) has succeeded in creating a thin film electronic element using molybdenum disulphide (MoS₂). MoS₂ is only a single atomic layer thick and possesses the characteristics of a semiconductor. The research team...

Professor NAM Jaw-Min (Dept. of Chemistry) Professor NAM Jwa-Min (Dept. of Chemistry)’s research team has developed a new type of DNA-modified gold nanoparticle-based bio-barcode assay. Micro RNA (miRNA) is an indicator of cancer, and the research team found a way to detect miRNA using DNA bio-barcodes which combine wi...

Professor YOON Euijoon (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering) Professor YOON Euijoon (Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering) has co-developed a way to build graphene directly on light emitting diodes (LEDs) with Professor CHUN Seung-Hyun (Sejong University). Previously, graphene could only be built on copper...

KIM Kwang Hee (College of Liberal Studies) KIM Kwang Hee, an undergraduate student in the College of Liberal Studies, had his paper published in the January edition of Angewandte Chemie, one of the two most respected chemistry journals in the world. In his article titled ‘Carbon Dioxide Capture and Use: Organic Synthes...