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Seoul National University (SNU; Korean: 서울대학교; Hanja: 서울大學校; RR: Seoul Daehakgyo, colloquially Seouldae) is a national research university located in Seoul, South Korea. Founded in 1946, Seoul National University is considered to be the most prestigious university in the country. The university has three campuses: the main campus in Gwanak and two additional campuses in Daehangno and Pyeongchang. The university comprises sixteen colleges, one graduate school and nine professional schools. The student body consists of nearly 17,000 undergraduate and 11,000 graduate students. According to data compiled by KEDI, the university spends more on its students per capita than any other university in the country that enrolls at least 10,000 students.

There’s a new spider in town: advancing the field of robotics with ionic spiderwebs

“A new kind of robot has been born in Professor Jeong-Yun Sun’s lab, one that takes inspiration from the way spiders spin their webs. Spiders construct webs based on a minimalist framework, which allows them to sense even the …

Research Team Led by SNU College of Engineering Professor Jang Wook Choi Develops a Next Generation Aluminum Secondary Battery System

“SNU College of Engineering announced on 10th that Professor Jang Wook Choi of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering with Professor J. Fraser Stoddart from Northwestern University, the recipient of 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, teamed up for a …

Research Team Led by SNU Professor Yoon Young Kim Develops an Ultra-Sensitive Vibration and Supersonic Wave Sensor Technology

“Opens a New Prospect in Sensor Technology for Fault Diagnosis of Machinery, Non-Destructive Testing, and IoT Korean researchers developed a technology that can significantly amplify vibrations and ultrasonic signals used to detect abnormalities in mechanical devices and structures. SNU College …

SNU Researchers developed electronic skins that wirelessly activate fully soft robots

“A research team of Seoul National University (Co-senior authors: Professor Yongtaek Hong, Jaeha Kim, and Kyu-Jin Cho) has developed a skin-like electronic system that is soft, thin, lightweight and can wirelessly activate soft robots through a simple lamination process. They …

Origami-Inspired ‘Inspector Gadget Robotic Arm’, Published in ‘Science Robotics’

“SNU Soft Robotics Research Center led by Professor CHO Kyu-Jin at the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering has developed an origami-inspired robotic arm that is foldable, self-folding and also highly-rigid. (The researchers include Suk-Jun Kim, Dae-Young Lee, Gwang-Pil Jung …

Graphene gets bright: World’s thinnest lightbulb developed

“Led by Young Duck Kim, a postdoctoral research scientist in James Hone’s group at Columbia Engineering, a team of scientists from Columbia, Seoul National University (SNU), and Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) reported today that they …