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Professor Hyobin Yoo’s Research Team at SNU Develops 2D Quantum Material Platform Using Moiré Lattice Superposition

Professor Hyobin Yoo’s Research Team at SNU Develops 2D Quantum Material Platform Using Moiré Lattice Superposition

Prof. Hyobin Yoo

Seoul National University College of Engineering has announced that a joint research team led by Professor Hyobin Yoo from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, in collaboration with Professor Young-Woo Son (Korea Institute for Advanced Study) and Professor Changwon Park (Ewha Womans University), has successfully developed a two-dimensional (2D) quantum material platform through the superposition of moiré lattices.

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Indonesian Tribe Adopts Korean Alphabet as Writing System

A minority tribe in the city of 'Bauer-Bauer', located in Buton, Southeast Sulawesi, has chosen Korean alphabet Hangeul as the official alphabet to transcribe its aboriginal language.With a population of around 60,000, the tribe stood to lose its language because it had no alphabet to transcribe it. SNU professors of l...

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Why Diabetics Get Depressed and Forgetful?

It is easily noticed that diabetes patients get easily depressed and forgetful, which has been attributed to psychological causes. A research team at SNU College of Medicine has found the scientific causes for the first time.Professor LYOO In-kyoon has found a link between levels of 'glutamate' and symptoms of depressi...

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5 Additional Centimeters in Height Links to 5% Greater Cancer Risk

Professor SUNG Joohon found a new link between height and cancer risk. Sung's research team investigated 788,789 Korean men and women aged 40 to 65 from 1994 to 2003 to find an evidence links height and cancer risk. The result said, for men, every additional five centimeters in height was associated with a 5% greater r...

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Sequencing the Entire Gene Map of Korean Male

SNU has succeeded sequencing the entire gene map of a Korean male. Professor SEO Jeong-Sun, Head of the Genomic Medicine Institute at SNU College of Medicine, has led the research and published the result on Nature. The title of the paper was 'A highly annotated whole-genome sequence of a Korean individual.'To date, hu...

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Females Can Decide For Themselves

Females of an Asian species of water strider keep their genitalia hidden to avoid any forceful copulation attempts, and expose them only after males produce a courtship “song” by tapping the water surface, according to a new study of Professor Piotr Jablonski and his graduate students CHANG Seok Han.CHANG and Jablonski...

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Hydrophobic Lithography

The successful use of any new material in electronic applications depends not only on its electrical characteristics but on how easily it can be formed into the patterns needed for building complex device structures. For organic materials - which hold great promise for making low cost and large area electronics - conve...

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Insulator-metal Transitions

The study of insulator-metal transitions (IMT) in transition metal oxides, where conductivity changes from an insulator to a metal, is important for understanding phenomena such as superconductivity. For the first time, Professor NOH Tae Won at Dept. of Physics has controlled IMT in a series of 5d transition metals com...

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SNU Created a Highly Efficient Green Quantum Dot LED

SNU created a highly efficient light emitting diode (LED) that can help develop next-generation displays and computerchips. Professor LEE Changhee, professor CHAR Kookheon and professor LEE Seonghoon said they have perfected a new production method that can produce high-quality greenquantum dot LEDs with superior brigh...

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Dimensional Crossover in Nano-size Particles

Professor CHOE Sug-bong found that nano-size particles could be reduced to the point where they exist in a blurred boundary between a two-dimensional and one-dimensional phase. CHOE's research marks the first time that the dimensional crossover from a two-dimensional planar object and a one-dimensional line has been ob...

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Single Elderly People More Likely to Suffer Dementia

CHO Maeng-je, Professor of Neuropsychiatry at College of Medicine, released a government supported research result on April 13. According to the report, smokers and single elderly people are exposed to a higher risk of getting dementia. The odds of people without a spouse getting dementia are 2.4 times higher than thos...

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Women with stage III cancers and age below 49 may have higher risk of recurrence

Age, disease stage may decide vaginal cancer outcome. Women treated with laser vaporization for vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia may be at greater risk of recurrence if they are aged 48 or younger or if they were diagnosed with stage III cancer, compared to their older counterparts and those with less advanced disease...

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Topical Solution Relieves Vaginal Symptoms in Breast Cancer Survivors Who Experience Menopause After Chemotherapy

Doctor LEE You-Kyung of SNU Hospital attended the American Society of Breast Disease (ASBD) Annual Symposium and presented her results of the randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. The title of the presentation was"The Effect and Safety of Clino-San on Vaginal Symptoms in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Randomi...