S. Korea to develop 100 advanced industry materials within 5 years

Seoul, (IANS) South Korea will seek to secure technologies for 100 advanced materials for the chip, biology, and other industries within the next five years, the science ministry said on Thursday, a move aimed at strengthening its own supply chains.According to the Ministry of Science and ICT, the government will support science research and development projects to independently develop 100 advanced materials, including 20 semiconductor-related materials, 23 battery materials, and 10 biomaterials, Yonhap news agency reported.The government also has a 10-year plan to develop 100 materials for future technologies, such as artificial intelligence chips, quantum, robotics, and space, to secure a competitive edge against other countries in the industries.The move comes as experts assess South Korea's technological capabilities in advanced materials remain at 84 per cent of the level of the United States and also lag behind those of China and Japan, the ministry explained."The advanced materials sector is a key driving factor that determines the country's capabilities in key strategic technology fields, such as semiconductors and secondary batteries," Science Minister Yoo Sang-im said."We will expand investment in materials technologies for the present and future to preemptively respond to any potential global supply chain crisis," he...

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Physics puts new lens on major eye disease

By Carol Clark: It’s not easy for a theoretical physicist and an ophthalmologist to see eye-to-eye. But a collaboration between the two at Emory University proved worth the effort, sparking a new insight into the leading cause of blindness in adults. The discovery, which ultimately involved seven scientists and four different institutions, was recently published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) Computational Biology. “We looked at a problem from different angles, and came up with a whole new way of seeing choroidal neovascularization – a major eye disease,” says Hans Grossniklaus, a clinical ophthalmologist who is the F. Phinizy Calhoun Jr. Professor of Ophthalmology and Professor of Pathology at Emory’s School of Medicine. Their results include the first biophysical computer model of how choroidal neovascularization, or CNV, develops. “We can use this model to test new drugs at specific sites and stages during the progression of CNV, which could lead to more effective treatments,” says Fereydoon CNV vision loss changes the above scene into the one below. Family, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Physics at Emory. CNV is the most serious form of age-related macular degeneration. In the early stages of CNV, blood vessels begin to sprout abnormally beneath the center of the retina. These abnormal...

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