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Professor Hyobin Yoo’s Research Team at SNU Develops 2D Quantum Material Platform Using Moiré Lattice Superposition

Professor Hyobin Yoo’s Research Team at SNU Develops 2D Quantum Material Platform Using Moiré Lattice Superposition

Prof. Hyobin Yoo

Seoul National University College of Engineering has announced that a joint research team led by Professor Hyobin Yoo from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, in collaboration with Professor Young-Woo Son (Korea Institute for Advanced Study) and Professor Changwon Park (Ewha Womans University), has successfully developed a two-dimensional (2D) quantum material platform through the superposition of moiré lattices.

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Pendlebury’s New List Named Three SNU Scientists

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...

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Professor Breitenfeld’s Digitalization of Korean Music

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 ...

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Is the Vacuum Really Empty?

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...

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Professor PARK Tai Hyun Develops Bioelectronic Nose

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...

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Professor LEE Takhee Creates Thin Film Electronic Element from MoS₂

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...

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Professor NAM Jwa-Min Develops Bio-Barcode Which Detects Micro RNA

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...

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Professor YOON Euijoon Finds Way to Build Graphene on Top of LEDs

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...

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SNU Undergraduate Student’s Article Published by Angewandte Chemie

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...

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SNU Doctoral Student Receives EDAA Outstanding Dissertation Award

Dr. KIM Younghyun (Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering) Dr. KIM Younghyun (Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Advisor: Professor CHANG Naehyuck) was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation Award by the European Design and Automation Association (EDAA). This is the first time a Korean has received this award,...

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SNU and Samsung Co-develop Graphene Smartphone

Professor HONG Byung Hee (Dept. of Chemistry) Professor HONG Byung Hee HONG (Dept. of Chemistry) and Samsung Techwin have developed a way to mass produce graphene and apply it to smartphones. Graphene has high electrical conductivity and so was expected to be used in manufacturing electronic goods. However, there were ...

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Professor KIM Jin-Soo Developed RNA-guided Engineered Nucleases (RGENs)

Professor KIM Jin-Soo (Department of Chemistry) Professor KIM Jin-Soo’s research team (Department of Chemistry) developed RNA-guided engineered nucleases (RGENs) which use enzymes to cut certain parts of DNA in order to create DNA with certain wanted characteristics. Professor Kim is one of the leading scholars in the ...

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Developing Drugs for the Global Market

A good doctor can save thousands of patients whereas an outstanding drug can save millions of patients. This is the philosophy of Professor KIM Sung Hoon of SNU’s Dept. of Molecular Medicine and Biopharmaceutical Sciences. Professor KIM Sung Hoon Although he was from a family of doctors that goes back generations, as a...