Bio-integrated microfluidics chips: Rapid investigation of combinatory antibiotic effects against pathogenic bacteria A microfluidic chip significantly reduces the turnaround time and labor-intensive work of combinatory antibiotic screening against bacteria by generating two orthogonal concentration gradients in a diffusion manner.   Article | Fall 2019     Over the past few decades, antibioti...

Recipescape: An interactive tool for analyzing cooking instructions at scale RecipeScape is a novel visual analytics interface for analyzing online recipes at scale. It is powered by a computational pipeline that collects sequential instructions available online and compares structural similarities among the instructions.   Article  |  Fall 2019     From cooking recipes to home i...

Tractor beam: A drone hijacking technology for anti-drone and counter-terrorism A drone hijacking technology for counter-terrorism was developed because existing anti-drone techniques cannot adequately counteract the threat of drone terrorism. The technology was based on GPS spoofing, which can manipulate GPS location and the velocity of drones. The characteristics of drones from key consumer drone manufacturers w...

Replicate physical objects for AR/VR using a smartphone Prof. Min H. Kim’s team of the KAIST School of Computing has developed a new method that replicates physical objects for augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) using just a single smartphone, without any need for additional, and oftentimes expensive, supporting hardware.   Article  |  Fall 2019     To faithfully reprodu...

Structural insight into the molecular mechanism of PET degradation A superior poly ethylene terephthalate (PET)-degrading enzyme was developed using structural-based protein engineering and suggests a molecular mechanism for superior degradability of PET. This study will lead to developing further superior enzymes and constructing platforms for microbial plastic recycling.   Article | Fall 2019   &...

Unveiling the atomic scale sodiation pathway and pulverization-tolerant sodium storage mechanism in copper sulfide Copper sulfide is suggested as a superior sodium storage material with high capacity and high cyclic stability. To investigate the origin of the high sodium storage performance, in-situ transmission electron microscopy is utilized to visualize the sodium storage process of copper sulfide at the atomi...