- Yonsei Professors Selected for 2018 Future Materials Discovery Project November 02, 2018
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Materials Science & Engineering Teams to receive a total of 7 million USD in research funds over the next 6 years
(from left) Professor Cheol-min Park, Professor Wooyoung ShimResearch teams led by Professor Cheol-min Park and Wooyoung Shim of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Yonsei University were selected for the 2018 Future Materials Discovery Project by the Ministry of Science and ICT. The two research teams are expected to make significant contributions to material technology innovation by utilizing a total of 9 billion KRW (about 8 million USD) in research funds at an annual average of 1.5 billion KRW (about 1.3 million USD) over the next six years.
The Future Materials Discovery Project was established by the Ministry of Science and ICT in 2015 in response to the rising importance of the development of innovative materials worldwide. It is also the only national science and technology R&D initiative in Korea dedicated specifically to materials science.
Professor Cheol-min Park and his team’s proposal for a technology that develops artificial synesthesia electronics materials received recognition for its future application in real life. His research team consists of 13 members, including professors from other major research university in Seoul and Incheon, South Korea.
With the goal of developing an artificial synesthesia source material capable of “sense and display” - detecting and simultaneously visualizing sensory information from the human body - Professor Park’s team proposed the development of multi-functional source materials. In order to develop new materials capable of “sense and display,” in the pre-planning research phase the team designed multi-functional source materials through analysis of already existing materials using big data screening and computer simulation. They also confirmed that it was possible to develop artificial synesthesia source materials with asymmetric molecular cage structure. The material design and development methodology proposed by the research team is expected to contribute greatly to national R&D capabilities by promoting technology development in the field of artificial synesthesia - one of the core future technologies in ICT.
Prof. Wooyoung Shim’s research team proposed multidimensional materialization technology through dimensional layered design of the crystal structure, and it is expected to lead to fundamental material innovation, reaching beyond the limits of previous research. The team consists of 11 members, including seven professors from Sungkyunkwan University, KAIST and POSTECH, and three doctoral researchers from KRISS, KIST, and Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology.
Professor Shim’s team proposed a source technology that enables the multi-dimensionalization of materials by designing a dimensional layered crystal structure of the matter. The team’s material multi-dimensionalization is a concept that has not existed so far and is distinctly different from the existing low-dimensional materialization technology. They succeeded in applying new research methodologies to various material groups. For instance, there are materials such as two-dimensional silicon with tens of times more hydrogen generation than conventional silicon structures, and two-dimensional germanium with significantly improved cathode performance. The value from such research in the future is expected to be limitless as the search for new low-dimensional materials and their expanding application range ensure that such materials are widely used in semiconductors, in the field of superconductivity and energy.
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