Since the successful isolation of graphene from bulk graphite, remarkable properties of graphene have attracted many scientists to the brand-new research field of 2D materials. However, despite excellent carrier mobility of graphene, direct application of graphene to field-effect transistors is severely hindered due to...

Red, gold, silver spheres on a lipid chip represent metal nanoparticles with strong and distinct scattering signals. The nanoparticles are functionalized with specially designed DNA ligands, and the surface ligands render receptor-floater interactions programmable, thereby transforming a pair of receptor and floater in...

SNU Soft Robotics Research Center has developed a soft wearable hand robot that can aid the hand-disabled by using machine learning algorithm and sensory hardware. Professor Sungho Jo (KAIST) and Kyu-Jin Cho (Seoul National University), a collaboration research team in Soft Robotics Research Center (SRRC), Seoul, Korea...

Professor LEE Byoungho Professor Lee Byoungho (Dept. of Electrical Engineering) has developed a microscope that produces images three to four times better in quality than those of currently existing holographic microscopes. Compared to other holographic microscopes, Professor Lee’s microscopes are able to not only capt...

Researchers at Seoul National University and Stanford University developed artificial mechanosensory nerves using flexible organic devices to emulate biological sensory afferent nerves. They used the artificial mechanosensory nerves to control a disabled insect leg and distinguish braille characters. Compared to conven...

A research team of Seoul National University (Co-senior authors: Professor Yongtaek Hong, Jaeha Kim, and Kyu-Jin Cho) has developed a skin-like electronic system that is soft, thin, lightweight and can wirelessly activate soft robots through a simple lamination process. They developed an electronic skin (e-skin) pair a...

Amphibians in many parts of the world are falling victim to pathogenic chytrid fungus, first discovered in the late 1990s. The fungus colonises the skin of infected individuals, interferes with respiration, and can ultimately cause infected frogs to die of heart attacks. Although the fungus is devastating amphibianpopu...

Professor LEE Changhee (Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering) On April 23, a research team at SNU led by Professor Lee Changhee of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Ph.D. student Lee Hyun Ho published the results of their research regarding the lifespan of Perovskite solar cells. The res...

The browser cannot play this video. Please upgrade the browser. This video shows how the chiral gold nanoparticles are created with amino acids and peptides and how they are applied in displays. For the first time, scientists have successfully created optically active, chiral gold nanoparticles using amino acids and pe...

SNU Soft Robotics Research Center led by Professor CHO Kyu-Jin at the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering has developed an origami-inspired robotic arm that is foldable, self-folding and also highly-rigid. (The researchers include Suk-Jun Kim, Dae-Young Lee, Gwang-Pil Jung, Professor of SeoulTech) The rese...

Professor HWANG Cheol Seong Professor Hwang Cheol Seong of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and his research team recently invented a type of cloth that is woven with RRAM (Resistive Random-Access Memory) technology. The new memory cloth does not use any electricity and will be able to be worn like n...

Professor KIM Jin-Soo Professor Kim Jin-Soo and training researcher Kim Daesik, both of the Department of Chemistry, were part of a research team at the Center for Genomic Engineering, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), that proved that a newly developed gene editing technique will be helpful in combatting g...