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Volume 6 Issue 10, October 2007

Starfish image (2.6 mm wide) produced using electrohydrodynamic jet printing

Cover design by David Shand

Article by Park et al.

Volume 6 Issue 10

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Editorial

  • Over the past few decades, South Korea has made impressive economic and scientific progress. Can the country maintain this fast pace?

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Correspondence

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Commentary

  • Scientific research in Korean universities has developed rapidly in the past twenty years. However, the quality still lags behind other advanced countries, and Korea faces many challenges in building premier research universities.

    • Se-Jung Oh
    Commentary
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Interview

  • Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) was established only 21 years ago. Nature Materials spoke to POSTECH's outgoing president, Chan-Mo Park, about this success story as well as his personal engagement with North Korea.

    • Joerg Heber
    Interview

  • To answer this question, Nature Materials interviewed Ohjoon Kwon, head of the research laboratories of POSCO, Korea's largest steel producer, and the third-largest in the world.

    • Joerg Heber
    Interview
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Research Highlights

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News & Views

  • X-ray magnetic circular dichroism in ultrafast mode provides insight into spin relaxation in nickel on a femtosecond timescale, opening up new horizons for research into spin dynamics with the highest resolution.

    • Bert Koopmans
    News & Views

  • A synthetic method of producing metal nanoparticles of chosen crystallinity can help us understand how crystal defects affect their physical and chemical properties.

    • Gregory V. Hartland
    News & Views

  • A newly developed microdiffraction technique for solving the structure of very small single crystals hails a new era in the structural characterization of complex materials.

    • Mohamed Eddaoudi
    News & Views

  • Research now shows that interaction with silicon carbide substrate leads to the opening of a semiconductor gap in epitaxial graphene. This is an important first step towards bandgap engineering in this two-dimensional crystal, and its incorporation in electronic devices.

    • Kostya Novoselov
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Review Article

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Letter

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Article

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In This Issue

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Focus

  • Over the past few decades, South Korea has made impressive economic and scientific progress, whilst North Korea remains an insulated nation with many fundamental problems. In this focus issue we take a look at the situation of academic research in South Korea, and highlight attempts to build bridges to North Korea.

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