This technology relates to a lithium secondary battery anode that improves interfacial stability by using a carbon current collector derived from bacterial cellulose and a lithium-compound layer.
Conventional lithium-metal anodes have suffered from low coulombic efficiency, electrolyte decomposition, volume change, and dendritic growth, resulting in poor stability. This technology forms a stable lithium-compound layer on a carbon current collector to control ion permeation and interfacial reactions.
As a result, it can reduce electrolyte decomposition and improve coulombic efficiency and rate performance, thereby contributing to enhanced energy density and output performance of lithium secondary batteries.
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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 a monitoring method that categorizes alert levels based on whether an intrusion detection sensor and a metal detector are triggered.
Conventional intrusion monitoring has relied on simple detection, often leading to complaints due to false alarms and overreactions.
To address this, the technology integrates weapon detection from a metal detector to differentiate alert levels, thereby reducing overreactions and increasing monitoring reliability.
This technology relates to a switchgear system that uses an AI platform's anomaly prediction model to forecast signs of failure or fire, records them on a marker, and allows for data utilization via smartphone capture.
Conventional switchgear systems struggle to predict and share anomalies early, leading to delayed responses to failures and fires.
To address this, this technology analyzes abnormal current patterns using a big data-based predictive model, records the findings on a marker, and enables immediate information utilization through smartphone capture.
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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