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Anti-aging Substance Using Domestic Seed Bacteria
Astaxanthin is known to inhibit the active oxygen that causes aging. The substance has an antioxidant capacity of 65 times that of vitamin C, 54 times that of beta-carotene and 14 times that of vitamin E in the oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) evaluation. The International Journal of Phytotherapy referred to astaxanthin as "the god of antioxidants". It is known to be effective not only in anti-aging but also in protecting eyesight, improving immunity, preventing cardiovascular disea..
2018-07-27
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Prof. as Editorial Board of Top 10% Journal
Professor Tae Hee Lee (Electronic Engineering) has been appointed as Associate Editor of Applied Mathematics and Computation, the world’s top 10% journal in applied mathematics. Lee has been acknowledged for his outstanding research achievements and vigorous activities in the field, and his dedication as a reviewer of papers submitted to academic journals. In particular, it is known as an exceptional example that an assistant professor is given the role. As Associate Editor of this jo..
2018-07-27
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The ‘Most Innovative’ Korean National University
Recently, research competitiveness and university-industry cooperation of Chonbuk National University were recognized by Reuters, one of the world’s most renowned media companies. Reuters announced that CBNU ranked first among the South Korean comprehensive national universities in the ‘Asia Pacific’s Most Innovative Universities 2018’. A total of 75 universities in the Asia Pacific region have been selected as ‘the most innovative universities’ by leading high-tech scientific resea..
2018-06-12
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Engineering Students Receive 'Excellent Research Award'
The undergraduate student Jeong Gyun Kim and the doctorate Ji Hee Jeong (Industrial Information Systems Engineering) received ‘Outstanding Research Awards’ at the spring conference of Society of Korea Industrial and Systems Engineering recently. In this conference, Kim and Jeong presented the research results that can optimize the efficiency of the mobile communication network with the title of "Modeling and Performance Analysis of Area-based Location Registration and Distance-based Locati..
2018-06-12
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CBNU Keeps Its Position in Leiden Rankings
In the CWTS Leiden Rankings 2018, which evaluates the quality of the world’s academic publications, Chonbuk National University took first place among national comprehensive universities in the top 10% cited publication, reflecting the weight of the coauthorship, for three consecutive years since 2016. The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) has evaluated the science and technology impacts of 938 universities in the world which have published more than 1,000 international paper..
2018-05-25
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Professor Develops High Performance Piezoelectric Composites
Professor Chang Kyu Jeong’s (Electronic Materials Science) team has found that high-performance piezoelectric composites can be produced using the interaction between piezoelectric ceramic nanowires and piezoelectric polymer materials, publishing in Small (IF = 8.643), the world-wide academic journal in the field of materials, in the second issue of May (Volume 14, Issue 19). Piezoelectric materials are special materials that can exchange mechanical energy and electrical energy, which are w..
2018-05-25
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Student Receives Award for Electric Power Research
Seung-heon Song (master’s student, Power Grid Lab) was awarded the ‘outstanding paper’ at the Spring Conference 2018 hosted by the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers (KIEE) Society of Electric Power Systems. The paper was evaluated as “one of the best cases of industry-university cooperation.” At the conference, Song presented his research “A Study on the Required Capacity Assessment of BESS for Securing Transient Stability at the Fault on the Transmission Line Connecting the Lar..
2018-05-25
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Researchers Develop New Organic Light Emitting Material
A team of researchers at Chonbuk National University developed a new organic luminescent material recently, attracting attention from world academia. Professor Kwang-Un Jeong’s team (Polymer-Nano Science) newly designed and synthesized a supramolecule based on the dyestuff, cyanostilbene. In 2016 and 2017, the team developed the optical film that can realize various colors with light and can adjust color remotely, and the actuating polymer material that can remotely control the shape of ..
2018-04-26
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Welfare Support for Disabled Students
Chonbuk National University has been rated ‘excellent’ for its educational welfare support for disabled students by the Korean National Institute of Special Education recently. In order to encourage the improvement of higher education conditions for students with disabilities, the institute conducted a survey of 348 universities nationwide in three areas: student selection, teaching and learning, and facilities, through a three-step process including written evaluation, on-site visitation,..
2018-04-26
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