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Keeping it Cool: New Approach to Thermal Protection in Outdoor Wearable Electronics

Wearable devices and biosensors are prone to heating up, especially under sunlight. However, conventional radiative coolers contain metallic materials, which limits wireless communications. Now scient...

2021-03-17홍보팀

Optimizing Disinfection to Prevent Spread of Antibiotic Resistance in Wastewater

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria have become a global threat today, owing in part to the efficiency with which resistance spreads among them. Some of this spread happens in waterbodies—and our wast...

2021-03-08홍보팀

Researchers find “best case” goals for climate warming could still result in massive wildfire risk

The landmark 2015 Paris Agreement resulted in multiple studies examining the impact of global temperature increases, but these rarely investigate the effect of warming on “fire weather” co...

2021-03-04홍보팀

New Catalyst Could Enable Better Lithium–Sulfur Batteries, Power Next-Gen Electronics

Lithium–sulfur batteries, given their light weight and theoretical high capacities, are a promising alternative to conventional lithium-ion batteries for large-scale energy storage systems, dron...

2021-02-19홍보팀

More than meets the eye (of the storm): Typhoons in Korea amplified wildfires in America

In August 2020, the Korean peninsula was hit by 3 devastating typhoons. A recent study by a team of scientists from Korea and the U.S. reveals that these typhoons played a role in the wildfires in Ore...

2021-01-26홍보팀

Mystery Solved: New Study Shows Link Between Hot and Dry Weather and Air Quality in Korea

Scientists demonstrate ground-level ozone concentrations have risen alongside the increasingly frequent spells of dry tropical weather Although air quality in Korea has been declining over the pa...

2020-12-16홍보팀

Powering the Future: New Insights into How Alkali-Metal Doped Flexible Solar Cells Work

A group of scientists from Korea has discovered that the amount of alkali metal introduced into crystals of flexible thin-film solar cells influences the path that charge carriers take to traverse bet...

2020-11-02홍보팀

Beat the Heat: Novel Passive Cooling Device for Surfaces and Enclosed Spaces

Scientists engineer the first passive radiative device that absorbs heat from the inside of an enclosure and emits it on the outside. Scientists from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technolo...

2020-10-08홍보팀

Novel Virus-Based Colorimetric Sensor Can Show True Colors of Airborne Threats

In an exciting new study, scientists at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in Korea use genetically engineered viruses to fabricate highly efficient colorimetric sensors, which indicate the p...

2020-08-22홍보팀

Lab-on-Paper Strip: Small, Inexpensive Platform for Diagnosing Tropical Fevers

Dengue, zika, and chikungunya viruses are transmitted by mosquitoes and cause tropical fevers with similar symptoms, making accurate diagnosis complicated....

2020-08-20홍보팀

A Novel Active Photonic Wireless System to Power Medical Implants

Researchers in Korea have now developed a new method to power medical implants using an active photonic wireless system. In a new study published in PNAS, a research group from South Korea, led by Pro...

2020-07-07홍보팀

Newly Designed Ligands for a Catalytic Reaction to Synthesize Drugs and Useful Compounds

In a new study, scientists at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology developed novel ligand molecules, which facilitate a catalytic reaction that generates useful compounds called chromanones. Ch...

2020-06-25홍보팀

Modified Parkinson’s Drug Shows Potential in Treating Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) severely impairs the quality of life in patients and often leads to various liver complications. Recently, scientists at Gwangju Institute of Science and Techn...

2020-06-25홍보팀