Research Projects Supported by Samsung Published Consecutively in Top International Journals

Professor Heejun Yang of KAIST, Professor Jongho Kim of Hanyang University ERICA Campus, and Professor Doheon Kim of Seoul National University, who published papers in top-tier academic journals with support from the Samsung Future Technology Development Program
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[Asia Economy Reporter Heungsun Kim] Research projects supported by the Samsung Future Technology Development Program have been recognized for their achievements by being consecutively published in prestigious international academic journals.

According to Samsung Electronics on the 20th, research papers by Professor Heejun Yang's team from the Department of Physics at KAIST and Professor Jongho Kim's team from the Department of Materials Chemistry and Engineering at Hanyang University ERICA Campus were recently published in the international journals Science Advances and Advanced Materials, respectively. Prior to this, a review paper co-authored by Professor Doheon Kim from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Seoul National University along with nine world-renowned scholars and experts was also published in Science.

Professor Yang's research team was recognized for developing an artificial intelligence sensor applying a tin sulfide-based 'memristor' device that mimics the information processing of brain neural networks. The AI sensor developed by the team successfully recognized simple Korean characters such as 'gaja' and 'saja' at about 91% accuracy even in complex environments where multiple characters were mixed. This research by Professor Yang's team has been supported since June 2017 as a project under the Samsung Future Technology Development Program.

Professor Kim Jongho's research team was acknowledged for developing a new artificial antibody technology capable of rapidly diagnosing and treating bacterial infectious diseases. Experiments using the artificial antibodies developed by the team on bacteria causing food poisoning?Escherichia coli, Salmonella, and Staphylococcus?demonstrated that the artificial antibodies could kill bacteria through high temperatures. Furthermore, using the artificial antibodies reduced the detection time for bacteria in blood, urine, and other samples from the conventional 12 hours to within 1 hour.

Professor Kim stated, "We plan to continue research aimed at diagnosing and aiding treatment for a wider variety of infectious diseases beyond the food poisoning bacteria applied in this study." This research has been supported since September 2015 as a project under the Samsung Future Technology Development Program.

The Samsung Future Technology Development Program is a public interest project initiated in 2013 with Samsung investing 1.5 trillion KRW to foster domestic science and technology. So far, it has supported 670 projects with 870.8 billion KRW. To date, a total of 2,127 papers have been published in international academic journals, including 186 papers in top-tier journals such as Nature (7 papers), Science (8 papers), and Cell (1 paper).

Among the 8 papers published in Science, there is also the review paper co-authored last month by Professor Doheon Kim. Samsung Electronics explained, "This is the first time a review paper has been published among the research papers supported by the Samsung Future Technology Development Program that appeared in Nature, Science, and Cell."

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