There are many cats living on the campus of POSTECH, and some of them are popular enough to have been named by Postechians out of affection. The most famous cats are Nobel and Abel, the two cats who welcome students in front of the POSCO International Center. Nobel was named after Nobel Park in POSTECH— the area where it used to roam about, and Abel was named after the Nobel prize in Mathematics as he was spotted with Nobel. The Postech Times interviewed Park Jong-hyun (EEE 16), the owner of Instagram account “postech_meaw” – an account that uploads photos of the POSTECH cats.Park created the

Greenpeace is under police investigation for defacing an advertisement of Hyundai Motor against pollution from cars. A member of Greenpeace climbed a billboard for Hyundai Motor’s new Sonata sedan and posted a message “No more internal combustion engines.” “As a part of our organization’s global campaign to take action against automakers developing vehicles with internal combustion engines, we thought it is necessary to voice our opinion to Hyundai Motor,” said Lee In-sung, a climate campaigner for the local branch of Greenpeace. According to the group, Hyundai Motor and Kia Motors together pr

Professor Hwang Hyung-ju (MATH) received the Open & Collaboration Award at the 2019 POSCO Technology Conference for her contribution to improving POSCO’s cost competitiveness by developing and applying AI-based furnace end-point temperature prediction technology to the site.Prof. Hwang got a doctorate in Brown University, followed by a post-doc researcher at the Maxplanck Institute in Germany and an assistant professor at Duke University. She is currently vice director of POSTECH blockchain technology center and director of POSTECH Center for Applications of Mathematics. In addition, she won t

The POSTECH research team led by Professor Lee Sang-joon (ME) and Park Sung-ho (ME, Ph.D.) has succeeded in developing a way to extract lithium from seawater and have proposed a new plan to do so by using alginate beads and a metal-organic framework (MOF) of phosphate. The findings were published in the prestigious international journal Advanced Functional Materials.The research team confirmed the phenomenon of a synthetic alginic acid bead using aluminum as an agent effectively absorbing lithium. In addition, once the amorphous phosphate MOF is of sufficient size inside the alginic acid bead,

Recently, a ‘biomimetic nanoleaf electrocatalyst’ has been developed with the ability to produce hydrogen energy, an ecofriendly clean energy, by mimicking the photosynthesis mechanism of leaves.A team led by Professor Yong Ki-jung (CE) and Dr. Chen Bin, succeeded in developing a ‘Nanoleaf catalyst’ that catalyzes the production of oxygen in the process of water decomposition which produces hydrogen energy by mimicking the leaves of monocotyledons for the first time. It has been confirmed that the nano leaf catalyst has an improved catalyst activity up to 9.3 times compared to the previous cat

The Times Higher Education announced that POSTECH ranked third in the world and the first in Asia at THE’s World’s Best Small Universities 2019. The Times Higher Education publishes world rankings every year for universities with fewer than 5,000 students. THE’s World’s Best Small Universities used the same indicators as THE’s World University Rankings: teaching, research, citations, industry income, and international outlook, but assessed only small universities because the characteristics of small universities, which prioritize quality over quantity and pursue customized education, are not p

POSTECH professors will play a relieving role in the crisis of the Korean-based materials and parts companies caused by Japan’s “whitelist” exclusion. It will support not only Japan’s regulatory sector but also areas with high foreign dependence and cover both large and small businesses through a two-track strategy.First of all, ‘expert pool’ system is prepared for small and medium enterprises. This method creates a database of 100 professors in the fields of materials, semiconductors, steel, energy, telecommunications, and electronics, and will be directly connected to businesses and professo

The Center for Extensible Quantum Computing Technology Convergence Platform at POSTECH was selected as a national project by the Ministry of Science and ICT for its ‘Leading Research Center Support Program’ in the area of engineering (ERC: Engineering Research Center). The director is Professor Sim Jae-yoon (EEE). The center will receive 13.5 billion KRW in government funding over the next seven years. In addition, Professor Cha Jae-choon (MATH) will also receive funding on his research on four-dimensional topology and knot theory as it was selected for the Research Leader Program under the na

Students at Korea University and Seoul National University (SNU) both held rallies on Aug. 23. Korea University students demanded a probe into any irregularities considering the way the daughter of justice minister nominee Cho Kuk was accepted to the university through an early admission program. The flashpoint is the question about the way Cho’s daughter entered college. Her name was cited as the first author in a paper published in the Korean Journal of Pathology in 2008 after she partook in the research in 2007 during a two-week internship program at the department of medical science at Dan

The first-ever department selection results are finally out after a total of 289 out of 291 Mueunjae sophomores have decided on which field to major in. This is a pioneering work of POSTECH’s latest freshmen division: the Mueunjae School of Undergraduate Studies. Since 2018, new students entered POSTECH without a major; instead, they were admitted into the Mueunjae School of Undergraduate Studies and could choose their desired field of study after three semesters. Although this system is great for students, since they can choose whichever departments that suits them best without any restrictio

Nitrogen monoxide is a double-edged sword. Just enough of it will prevent blood pressure elevation and occluded artery, but once too much of it is accumulated, it causes inflammatory diseases such as lupus, Crohn disease, and rheumatism.Professor Kim Won-jong (CHEM) at POSTECH and his research team has created a Nano-sized hydrogel that effectively captures nitrogen monoxide inside a body utilizing a cross linking agent that reacts to nitrogen monoxide. Prof. Kim’s team has been focusing on rheumatoid arthritis, which is occurs because of an excessive formation of nitrogen monoxide inside the

The research team led by professor Lee In-su (CHEM) developed a thermally stable eccentric metal-silica core-shell nanoparticles synthesis method that can control core positions of nanoparticles without having to change the size of the particles.Hybrid nanoparticles synthesized with metal can be utilized in various fields such as manufacturing drugs that can treat incurable diseases or catalysts that control reaction turning carbon monoxide to carbon dioxide. Among them, metal-silica core-shell nanoparticles, having various configurations, contains huge availability. Synthesizing core-shell st

Professor Cho Dong-woo (ME) and professor Jang Jin-ah(CiTE) succeeded in producing 3D printed artificial retina with bioinks of decellularized retina tissue and stem cells. The artificial retina is biocompatible and transparent. This research was published in recent Biofabrication.Retina protects pupil from external environment. It should be transparent because it is the first one to accept the light. Retina should be elastic due to light refraction at the same time. However, artificial retina was hard to make transparent and biocompatible for its complicated fabricating process. In studies of

On May 17, POSTECH’s Research and Business Development Foundation held Excessively Attractive Technology Start-up Competition. Ten teams were selected for the Camp held on May 3 to 4 were: Mutton, Aikon, Memorizer, Hofbräu, Blessyou, Lampas, JUMUNI, Qrio, Scribblers, and Durian. All participating teams were given benefits such as mentoring from an expert, connections with venture capitalists, and priority in participating in start-up education programs.At the competition, each team was given five minutes to explain its business idea and another five minutes for a Q&A session with a panel of ju

From the Fall semester, 2019, the privilege of single room usage will be provided to female graduate students and male undergraduate students, a privelage which is currently prescribed to male graduates only. There was a notice ‘Expansion management of single room Dormitory’ explaining that the number of single rooms will be increased from next semester, due to the ‘increasing preference for single rooms due to changes in lifestyles, including privacy protection for Dormitory, and a desire of single rooms for graduate students (female) and undergraduates.’ The fee policy for single rooms will

“When the people ask, the government will answer.” The current government implemented the Blue House’s petition board to follow this philosophy. It is a line of communication between the Blue House and Korean citizens, with the Blue House responding when participation for a petition has garnered the support of at least 200,000 people. The petition board is once again making headlines on websites, this time over calls for the dissolution of political parties. A petition filed on April 22 requesting the dissolution of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party had garnered more than 200,000 signatu

Fuel cells, receiving spotlight as eco-friendly future energy, has its limits in durability and efficiency. Improving thermal stability and catalytic properties of electrode material of fuel cells to overcome these problems has been regarded as a key mission in commercializing fuel cells.A Research team led by Professor Jang Hyun-myung (MSE) and Han hyun (MSE, Ph.D. candidate) developed a technology that uses the lattice transformation of thin-films to facilitate the exsolution of nanocatalytic particles, which represent outstanding thermal stability. The study was published in the Nature Comm

The research team led by Prof. Han Jeong-woo (CE) and Kim Hyung-jun (CE Ph.D.) developed a high-efficiency catalyst that can reduce emissions at low temperatures. The research was selected and published as ChemCatChem’s cover and VIP thesis, a world-renowned authority in catalyst science.Through the computational chemistry that deals with the problem of theoretical chemistry through computer simulation, the research team derived the dopant combination and presented it directly to researchers in the same lab, dramatically reduced the time and cost for designing an efficient catalyst.To oxidize

The research team of Prof. Park Moon-jeong (CHEM), Dr. Dipankar Barpuzary, and Kim Kyoung-wook (CHEM, Ph.D. Candidate) succeeded in achieving two-dimensional growth of large-area conjugated polymers with high conductivity on ice surfaces in just 8 minutes.PEDOT:PSS is a type of conducting polymer that is widely used in displays or solar cells. However, for commercial use, it was necessary to find a way to increase surface area and conductivity while reducing synthesis time. The research team came up with a solution to these problems by synthesizing the polymers on ice surfaces.When monomers ar

On May 7 to 9, election for the 2nd Student Union of Mueunjae Undergraduate was held. The election was the first online election to be hold in POSTECH. With POSTECH being the first ever Blockchain Campus, all the votes were to be from online and no offline polling booths were placed. Students voted through a blockchain-based app, ‘Blockchain Voting’.The original candidate registration deadline of April 24 was pushed back by one week, due to the lack of applicants. As a result, the whole election schedule was postponed by one week. Also because of the low turnout, the voting period was extended