Thermal Imaging-Based High-Resolution Image Acquisition Technology

This technology relates to a super-resolution image acquisition technique that generates a high-resolution image by combining multiple low-resolution thermal images.

Conventional thermal cameras have had difficulty precisely identifying fine defects or degradation conditions due to resolution limitations. This technology restores a high-resolution thermal image from multiple frames through a processing architecture including motion estimation, image selection, and a high-resolution generation unit.

As a result, it can improve the accuracy of thermal-image-based defect detection and enhance usability in industrial equipment diagnosis, safety monitoring, and degradation assessment systems.

Key Features:

• It generates a high-resolution image by registering multiple low-resolution thermal images.
• It improves super-resolution reconstruction accuracy through motion estimation and image selection algorithms.
• It can be applied to equipment degradation diagnosis and condition monitoring based on thermal cameras.

Nitrile Hydratase-Based D-Lactic Acid Production Technology

This technology relates to a bioconversion process for producing highly optically pure D-lactic acid using a novel enzyme, nitrile hydratase.

Conventional methods for producing D-lactic acid have suffered from complicated reaction steps, high cost, and limited optical purity. This technology uses the enzymatic hydrolysis of lactonitrile to produce D-lactic acid with high yield and high selectivity.

As a result, it enables economical production of highly optically pure D-lactic acid and can strengthen the competitiveness of raw-material manufacturing for bioplastics, food, and pharmaceutical applications.

Key Features:

• It hydrolyzes lactonitrile using a nitrile hydratase enzyme.
• It selectively produces D-lactic acid with high optical purity.
• It is advantageous for process simplification and reduction of production costs.

Dual-Scale Superhydrophobic Surface Processing Technology

This technology relates to a surface-processing technique that creates a superhydrophobic surface by forming both microstructures and nanostructures on a metal substrate surface.

Conventional methods for forming hydrophobic surfaces have often relied on costly semiconductor-level micromachining or complex surface treatments. This technology combines particle blasting, anodization, and replication to form a dual-scale surface structure in which micro-scale roughness and nano-scale pores coexist.

As a result, it can secure high hydrophobicity and non-wetting characteristics while improving large-area applicability and mass producibility, making it advantageous for anti-condensation, anti-fouling, and self-cleaning functional surfaces.

Key Features:

• It forms micro-scale roughness on a metal substrate surface through particle blasting.
• It forms nano-scale pores through anodization treatment.
• It realizes a dual-scale superhydrophobic surface structure through a replication process.
• It is suitable for self-cleaning, anti-fouling, and anti-condensation functional surface applications.

Solvothermal Sulfide Solid Electrolyte Technology

This technology relates to a method for producing a sulfide-based solid electrolyte in a short time and with low energy consumption by using a solvothermal synthesis process.

Conventional production of sulfide-based solid electrolytes has suffered from long reaction times and high energy consumption, resulting in low productivity. This technology introduces a solvothermal reaction-based synthesis process to manufacture a high-purity electrolyte more efficiently.

As a result, it can reduce manufacturing time and energy usage while improving productivity, making it advantageous for the mass production of materials for all-solid-state batteries.

Key Features:

• It manufactures a sulfide-based solid electrolyte using a solvothermal synthesis method.
• It simultaneously achieves high-purity electrolyte production and shorter process time.
• It is beneficial for improving the productivity of electrode and electrolyte materials for all-solid-state batteries.

Pneumatically Assisted Multi-Legged Walking Robot Technology

This technology relates to a multi-legged walking robot that improves travel efficiency and support stability by combining multiple leg units with a pneumatic assistance structure.

Conventional multi-legged robots have struggled to achieve fast locomotion and stable support because of high torque loads and physical resistance during the stance phase. This technology addresses that issue by linking a main body, leg-joint structure, surface support means, and pneumatic device to assist drive operation during the stance phase.

As a result, it can improve travel efficiency and support stability and can be used in industrial mobile robots, exploration robots, and walking assistance devices.

Key Features:

• It includes an articulated structure connecting the main body and multiple leg units.
• It applies a pneumatic device that assists surface support force during the stance phase.
• It improves travel efficiency and stability by reducing the torque burden on the drive unit.

Walking assistance robot combining wheelchair and exoskeleton to increase mobility

This technology relates to a wheelchair-type walking assistance robot that combines an exoskeleton worn on the user's lower body with a wheelchair-type lift for the purpose of strengthening the muscle strength of the general public, walking rehabilitation of patients, or assisting the mobility of the elderly.

It is a wheelchair-type walking assistance robot with greatly enhanced convenience.

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Key Features:

• A wheelchair-type walking assistance robot that can assist the user with 100% of the force required for sitting or standing.
• Running part: Responsible for an independent driving function like a wheelchair through the driving motor and wheels installed on the main frame
• Lift: Moves the chair up and down using linear guides and actuators, stably assisting the user in sitting or standing.
• Exoskeleton: Worn directly on the user's lower body to support the hip joint and Induces and supports movement of the knee joint and assists in gait rehabilitation

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Walking assistance robot combining wheelchair and exoskeleton to increase mobility

This technology relates to a wheelchair-type walking assistance robot that combines an exoskeleton worn on the user's lower body with a wheelchair-type lift for the purpose of strengthening the muscle strength of the general public, walking rehabilitation of patients, or assisting the mobility of the elderly.

It is a wheelchair-type walking assistance robot with greatly enhanced convenience.

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Key Features:

• A wheelchair-type walking assistance robot that can assist the user with 100% of the force required for sitting or standing.
• Running part: Responsible for an independent driving function like a wheelchair through the driving motor and wheels installed on the main frame
• Lift: Moves the chair up and down using linear guides and actuators, stably assisting the user in sitting or standing.
• Exoskeleton: Worn directly on the user's lower body to support the hip joint and Induces and supports movement of the knee joint and assists in gait rehabilitation

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Walking assistance robot combining wheelchair and exoskeleton to increase mobility

This technology relates to a wheelchair-type walking assistance robot that combines an exoskeleton worn on the user's lower body with a wheelchair-type lift for the purpose of strengthening the muscle strength of the general public, walking rehabilitation of patients, or assisting the mobility of the elderly.

It is a wheelchair-type walking assistance robot with greatly enhanced convenience.

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Key Features:

• A wheelchair-type walking assistance robot that can assist the user with 100% of the force required for sitting or standing.
• Running part: Responsible for an independent driving function like a wheelchair through the driving motor and wheels installed on the main frame
• Lift: Moves the chair up and down using linear guides and actuators, stably assisting the user in sitting or standing.
• Exoskeleton: Worn directly on the user's lower body to support the hip joint and Induces and supports movement of the knee joint and assists in gait rehabilitation

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Zeolites with different crystal structures

This technology relates to a method of manufacturing aluminosilicate zeolite with a UFI structure.

Since zeolites can have different properties depending on their framework composition and crystal structure, the development of UZM-5 zeolite with various framework compositions and different crystal structures is required, and this technology proposes an aluminosilicate zeolite with a new composition having a UFI structure.

This technology By using 1-Benzyl-2,3-dimethylimidazolium cation as an organic structure-inducing molecule, PST-7 zeolite with UFI structure with new framework composition, crystal shape and size can be created, and it becomes a new zeolite with different physicochemical and catalytic properties.

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Key Features:

• The Si/Al ratio is in the range of 7.5 to 50, preferably in the range of 10 to 25.
• UFI-structured aluminosilicate zeolites form rectangular crystal structures with a thickness of 0.3 μm or more.
• 1,2-Dimethyl-3-(2-fluorobenzyl)imidazolium cations are used as organic structure-directing molecules.
• Synthesized by converting to a hydroxide form using synthetic resins.

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This technology was developed through support from the National Research Foundation of Korea's Nanoporous Materials Synthesis Research Center.

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준Composition that induces the formation of metastable calcium carbonate crystals

This technology relates to the recombinant pearl shell Pif97 protein and the composition for forming metastable calcium carbonate crystals.

Pearls are not only valuable as jewelry, but the fracture resistance of nacre aragonite has a mechanical strength 3,000 times higher than that of pure aragonite, but there is a problem in that it is difficult to synthesize metastable calcium carbonate crystals to make artificially. In order to solve this problem, this technology proposes a method in which the recombinant pearl shell Pif97 protein, represented by SEQ ID NO: 1, produced by recombinant pearl shell Pif97 protein in prokaryotic cells, has the ability to bind calcium, aragonite, and chitin and induces the formation of metastable calcium carbonate crystals.  

The recombinant pearl shell Pif97 protein according to the present technology has the ability to bind calcium, aragonite, and chitin, and is excellent in inducing the formation of metastable calcium carbonate crystals by stabilizing amorphous calcium carbonate in an unstable state and inhibiting the formation of stable calcite.

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Key Features:

• * Providing isolated recombinant pearl shell Pif97 protein, synthesized by the nucleotide sequence encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1
• * Produce and purify the recombinant protein rPif97 from the prepared vector, and then transform E. coli BL21 (DE3) (Novagen) with the recombinant plasmid pET23-rPif97
• * 1mM Induction of recombinant protein rPif97 expression using IPTG (isopropyl-β-D-thiogalactopyranoside; Sigma Aldrich)
• * The eluate was desalted using a PD-10 column using 10mM Tris buffer (pH8)}
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This technology was developed through support from the Korea Institute for Ocean Science and Technology Promotion's research projects on marine fiber composite materials and bioplastic materials.

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