South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT and the National Research Foundation of Korea stated on Tuesday they chose Kim Dongha (κΉλν), a professor within the Department of Chemistry and Nano Science at Ewha Womans University, because the March winner of the Korea Science and Technology Award.
Kim was recognised for contributing to the fields of optics and nanotechnology by the event of next-generation supramolecular chiral optical supplies technology, a basic technology that exactly controls the properties of sunshine on the nanoscale. Chirality refers to a property of supplies that resemble one another like left and proper palms mirrored however are usually not equivalent, and is a key issue that determines a cloth’s efficiency and perform.
Kim’s crew developed a “supramolecular chiral co-assembly platform” that maintains structural stability even beneath exterior stimuli by utilizing star-shaped block copolymers as meeting items. The platform maintains structural stability for greater than 100 days at room temperature and reveals no efficiency degradation even after repeated heating and cooling. It additionally achieved extremely environment friendly full-colour circularly polarized gentle (CPL) emission throughout your complete seen spectrum, together with the pink area that had been troublesome to grasp. The analysis outcomes have been revealed within the worldwide journal Science in August final 12 months.
The technology is predicted for use in next-generation optical gadgets together with 3D shows, photonic circuits, and data safety and anti-counterfeiting.
“Going forward, based on the solid trust and cooperation built with co-researchers, I will continue to establish and share universal principles for designing materials applied across different fields,” Kim stated.