Take a closer look at National Strategic Material Technology! Korea Institute of Materials Science(KIMS), a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science & ICT, released the ‘Material Technology White Paper 2022.’This Material Technology White Paper released by the KIMS is the only white paper on material technology in Korea that summarizes information on material technology systemically on social issues of the corresponding year with the attendance of experts on the...

Secure technological competitiveness with empirical research on extreme materials! The Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT, regarding the ‘project for establishment of facilities and equipment for demonstrating extreme materials’ held a starting ceremony and a signboard hanging ceremony for the promotion team of the extreme materials empirical research base creation project with Industry-Academic-Institute e...

Differentiating corporation support by prioritizing technology commercialization! The Korea Institute of Materials Science(KIMS), a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT, announced a plan to completely reorganize and carry out the existing corporation support business into a project with the ultimate goal of ‘technology commercialization’. According to the ‘Policy Recommendations Research Report’ issued by the National Research Council of Science & ...

full-scale support for commercialization! The Comprehensive Support Project for Business implemented by the Korea Institute of Materials Science(KIMS) made a great contribution to the participating companies’ operational output. The result was revealed through the result evaluation conference held on February 15th to analyze the project performance. KIMS, a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT, has invested its budget for the project for two consecuti...

Researchers aid in conversation with artificial intelligence (AI)! Following the craze of ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence (AI), the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT, is holding “KIMS Artificial Intelligence and Science Talk Contest” which connects interactive artificial intelligence platforms and materials science. The ChatGPT, OpenAI’s conversational AI model, has gone viral, but sometimes...

Bright and hopeful sprouts in material technology! The Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS, President Jung-hwan Lee / hereinafter referred to as the KIMS), a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT, held an opening ceremony for the ‘KIMS Daycare Center’ on February 28th (Tuesday). This event was attended by President Jung-hwan Lee, Vice President Young-seon Lee, the Korea Institute of Materials Science branch manager Soo-seop Cha of the Korean Union of ...

Identify the current address of metal materials and seek development direction! The Busan․Gyeongnam Branch winter academic lecture of the Korean Institute of Metals and Materials was held on February 28th (Tuesday) at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT located in Changwon City, Gyeongsangnam-do. This lecture, co-hosted by the KIMS and the Korean Institute of Metals and Materials, and jointly organized by ...

Head to head to occupy the sky road! The Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT, promised to accelerate the development of aircraft materials and parts in cooperation with Korean Air the representative airline in Korea. KIMS signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Korean Air for the development of aircraft materials and part technology at the ‘2023 Drone show Korea’ held at BEXCO, Busan on February 23 (Th...

Green hydrogen, now obtained directly from the sea! The Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT, entered into a ‘multilateral business agreement for the joint development of core technology for seawater electrolysis system’ at a seminar room of the Research Building 1 of the Korea Institute of Materials Science located in Changwon, Gyeongsangnam-do, on February 22 (Wednesday). A total of 8 organizations participa...

Let’s create an (E) E-lobgo (beneficial), (S) S-eulgilobgo (wise), and (G) G-sogganeunghan (sustainable) future! In line with the decision of the first year of the transition to a carbon-neutral society in Changwon, the Korea Institute of Materials Science(KIMS), a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT, gave a special lecture on the theme of‘carbon neutrality and ESG management’. On February 22nd (Wednesday), KIMS invited more than 20 employees, including...

We will strengthen communication to make the powder industry a hub! As the 25th president of the Korea Powder Metallurgy & Materials Institute, Ji-hoon Yoo, director of the Powder Materials Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) was inaugurated. Established in 1993, the Korea Powder Metallurgy & Materials Institute is playing an important role in leading the world’s powder technology with more than 2,200 members and 83 member companies in the field through a solid a...

Investing in antibacterial/antiviral additives has passed through the cold season! Twinwiz Co., Ltd., a research spin-off company of the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT, made a pre-series A investment of KRW 2 billion in less than a year since its establishment amidst the cold investment. Pre-series A investment is between the ‘seed investment’ received at the stage of building a startup idea into a protot...

Opening a new smart window era! The Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT, held the ‘1st Smart Window Industrial Technology Exchange Meeting’ at Konkuk University Seoul Campus on January 10th (Tue). At this meeting, where experts from industry-academia-research institutes related to smart windows and government officials gathered together, suggestions were made on the direction of industrial development from var...

To tackle the world-class scientific conundrums! The Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) was selected for the 2022 STEAM Research Project (Future Convergence Technology Pioneer Project: Conundrums) implemented by MSIT and held the research group launching ceremony on December 28 (Wednesday). The Metal Heterogeneous Phase Control Research Group, selected for the STEAM project, plans to control the atomic level of materials and physical properties suggested by the MSIT to present a new pa...

Excellent research results from the KIMS shined again this year! The Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), a government-funded research institute under the Ministry of Science and ICT, selected 「KIMS Materials News Top 3 of the Year」in 2022. This year’s selection of exceptional research achievements was conducted through a referendum method in which the public directly selects excellent research achievements that can be felt to highlight the institution’s representative research achieve...