Creating a cyborg mouse using cranial nerve circuits that induce possessive behaviors   KAIST Professor Phill-Seung Lee of  Mechanical Engineering and Professor Dae-Soo Kim of Bioscience and Biotechnology revealed that the part of the brain’s hypothalamus called the MPA (Medial Preoptic Area) produces instincts to acquire and possess objects. Using this discovery, they developed a cyborg mouse tha...

Bacteria engineered to produce and secrete free heme   Secretory production of free heme was achieved using an engineered E. coli strain. This strategy will expedite the efficient production of free heme to serve as a bioavailable iron-supplying agent and an important prosthetic group of multiple hemoproteins for medical uses.   Article | Spring 2019     Researchers of KAIST have...

Developing a zirconium-based accident-tolerant fuel cladding using nanoporous oxide film   Using nanotechnology, Professor Sung Oh Cho from the Nuclear and Quantum Engineering Department at KAIST successfully developed an accident-tolerant fuel cladding prototype that can drastically improve the safety of nuclear power plants.   Article | Spring 2019     KAIST Nuclear and Quantum Engineer...

Shinsung-KAIST AI automated material handling system (AMHS) research center   Algorithms and methods have been investigated to control the massive fleet of vehicles used in automation systems in factories and warehoused using advanced artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. An algorithm was verified to be able to control massive fleet of vehicles effectively and was implemented to the hardware testbed.  ...

Promotion of gas hydrate nucleation in clay-rich sediments   Clay minerals have negatively charged surfaces which polarize the absorbed water molecules on their clay surfaces and such alignment of water molecules promotes the nucleation of gas hydrate.   Article | Spring 2019     Natural gas hydrates, which are frequently found in oceanic clay-rich sediments, are considered prospective en...

Nanomaterials control heat transfer through nanogap   KAIST reports the world’s first experimental demonstration of near-field thermal radiation between metallo-dielectric multilayers separated by nanometer-scale vacuum gap distances. Using this result, they also demonstrated that the near-field thermal radiation can be readily tuned by modifying the resonance condition of coupled surface plasmon polari...