This technology relates to an HIFU treatment apparatus and method capable of confirming a treatment focal position and evaluating treatment progress.
Conventional HIFU treatment has had difficulty accurately identifying the in-body focal position in real time, limiting safety and treatment precision. This technology combines an imaging-and-treatment integrated transducer with a phase-distribution-based evaluation unit so that focal position and treatment progress can be confirmed together.
As a result, it can improve the safety and accuracy of the treatment area and enhance the clinical usability and reliability of noninvasive ultrasound treatment.
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This technology relates to an ultrasonic Doppler imaging apparatus and control technology that simultaneously improves frame rate and sensitivity by applying a novel plane-wave synthesis technique.
Conventional plane-wave-based Doppler imaging has faced a trade-off between high-speed imaging and sensitivity, limiting blood-flow measurement range and resolution. This technology selectively synthesizes a variable number of frames among continuously incident frames to generate a Doppler image.
As a result, it can improve the resolution and sensitivity of Doppler imaging while maintaining a measurable blood-flow velocity range, thereby contributing to better medical ultrasound diagnostic performance.
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This technology relates to an electrolyte that improves reaction stability and performance in lithium-sulfur batteries by optimizing an ether-based mixed solvent and lithium-salt composition.
Conventional lithium-sulfur batteries have suffered from polysulfide accumulation and poor long-term stability, resulting in shortened lifespan. This technology applies an electrolyte in which DEE and DME are mixed at a specific volume ratio to control the solvation structure and stabilize the reactions of sulfur-based active materials.
As a result, it can rapidly induce LiPS conversion reactions and suppress accumulation, thereby improving the efficiency, cycle life, and high-power driving stability of lithium-sulfur batteries.
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This technology relates to an aqueous zinc battery anode and separator employing an MOF-801-based porous coating layer to improve ion-selective transport characteristics.
Conventional aqueous zinc batteries have suffered from vanadium oxide ion dissolution and zinc dendrite growth, which reduce lifespan and stability. This technology forms an MOF-801 coating layer having pores of 4.3 Å to 8.34 Å so that Zn2+ ions selectively pass while transport of VO2+ is suppressed.
As a result, it can reduce dendrite formation and corrosion while improving structural stability and capacity retention, making it advantageous for long-life aqueous zinc batteries.
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This technology relates to an analytical technique that identifies peptide sequences more precisely by using a free-radical initiator.
Conventional peptide sequencing has had difficulty obtaining fragmentation information from samples having disulfide bonds or complex structures. This technology introduces a TEMPO-series free-radical initiator to generate radical species on peptides and improve sequencing efficiency.
As a result, it can increase the accuracy of complex peptide sequence analysis and is useful in proteomics, biopharmaceutical research, and mass-spectrometry-based diagnostics.
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This technology relates to a self-fused CuS anode having a three-dimensional nanoporous structure, designed to improve storage capacity and cycle life in sodium secondary batteries.
Conventional copper sulfide anodes have suffered from low capacity and rapid performance degradation, limiting practical use. This technology improves both active-material loading and ion-diffusion characteristics through composition design, anode formation on a current collector, and conversion into a three-dimensional porous structure.
As a result, it can improve the capacity retention and long-term cycling characteristics of CuS anodes, contributing to higher-performance sodium secondary batteries.
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This technology relates to an anionic-lipid-based liposome designed to stably deliver an extracellular matrix.
Conventional liposome delivery systems have suffered from structural instability and leakage of encapsulated substances, resulting in low extracellular matrix delivery efficiency. This technology loads an extracellular matrix into a liposome including anionic lipids and a phospholipid membrane to improve stability and delivery efficiency.
As a result, it can promote cell adhesion and growth and is highly useful as a delivery system for tissue regeneration, cell therapy, and regenerative medicine.
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This technology relates to a method for producing extracellular membrane protein nanofibrils while controlling thickness and uniformity by using an electric field.
Conventional methods for producing extracellular membrane protein nanofibrils have had difficulty obtaining uniform thickness and structure, and chemical modification could occur during processing. This technology precisely controls fibrillation of extracellular membrane proteins such as collagen by adjusting electric-field application conditions.
As a result, it can stably produce uniform and thin protein nanofibrils, making it advantageous for regenerative medicine, biomaterials, and tissue-engineering scaffolds.
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This technology relates to a solid electrolyte having high ionic conductivity and an increased lithium-ion transference number, and to a lithium secondary battery including the same.
Conventional liquid electrolytes have had low safety because of flammability and high reactivity, and they have also faced limitations in forming stable interfaces for suppressing lithium dendrites. This technology applies an electrochemically stable solid-electrolyte composition and production process to realize a more stable battery configuration.
As a result, it can improve electrolyte safety and lithium-ion transport efficiency, making it advantageous for high-energy-density lithium batteries and next-generation all-solid-state batteries.
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This technology relates to a composite thin film that simultaneously improves the dispersibility and conductivity of metal oxide nanoparticles by using functional ligands, and to a perovskite photoelectric device employing the same.
Conventional metal oxide thin films have suffered from low nanoparticle dispersion stability, and organic ligands have often interfered with charge transport, reducing device efficiency. This technology introduces functional ligands that control surface defects and optimize particle dispersion and conductive pathways within the thin film.
As a result, it can improve the uniformity and charge-transport properties of the metal oxide composite thin film, thereby enhancing the efficiency and process reliability of perovskite photoelectric devices.
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