'KAIST 50th Anniversary', Featured in Special Issue of Renowned International Journal

Cover photo of the September special issue of Advanced Materials. Provided by KAIST

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The renowned international academic journal Advanced Materials has published a special issue this month commemorating the 50th anniversary of KAIST.

KAIST will celebrate its 50th anniversary in February next year. The special issue, published to mark this milestone, focuses on introducing KAIST's innovative technologies in artificial intelligence sensors, biotechnology, next-generation semiconductors, and more.

According to KAIST on the 3rd, Advanced Materials published the September special issue with Professor Lee Geon-jae of KAIST’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering serving as the editor-in-chief. The special issue highlights 17 review papers by KAIST researchers who have achieved results in fields related to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, including materials, artificial intelligence, electronics, and biotechnology, as well as KAIST’s research strategies.

For example, the special issue emphasizes that KAIST was ranked 4th worldwide as a Top Young University in the 2019 Nature Index, that the Department of Materials Science and Engineering was ranked 13th globally in the 2018 QS World University Rankings by subject, and that KAIST has published over 200 papers in the past decade, establishing itself as a world-leading research institution.

It also highlights that 638 full-time professors and over 62,000 KAIST alumni are leading Korea’s industry and academia, introducing KAIST’s vision, achievements, and current status.

In particular, Advanced Materials featured representative papers in the special issue on topics such as AI-based flexible piezoelectric voice sensors, two-dimensional materials (2D materials) for energy applications, advanced optogenetics technologies, nano-material-based precision cancer medicine, flexible devices and materials technologies, and disordered optics using multiple light scattering.

Professor Lee Geon-jae, co-editor of the special issue, said, "We are honored that the special issue commemorating KAIST’s 50th anniversary has been published in a renowned international academic journal. The publication of this special issue will serve as an opportunity for the innovative and creative technologies accumulated by KAIST to be widely disseminated throughout the global scientific community."

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