On August 11, the first KAIST-MIT-Technion International Symposium on Nanoscience took place at KAIST. The symposium was organized by the Chairman of the Organizing Committee, Professor Il-Doo Kim from the KAIST Department of Material Science and Engineering. According to Professor Kim, the goal of the symposium was “to provide an interesting forum for scientists and engineers to share their latest breakthroughs and achievements in nanoscale emerging materials with unique properties and functionalities.”
The symposium was divided into three subtopics: Materials for Production and Storage of Renewable Energy, Functional Materials, and Multiferroic Materials.
The collaborative symposium, organized by both KAIST and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), invited more than 300 experts in material science and engineering, including ten speakers and panelists. Notable invitees included Professor Harry L. Tuller and Geoffrey S.Beach from the MIT Department of Material Engineering and Professor Gregory Rutledge from the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering.
From Technion Institute of Technology in Israel, Professor Avner Rothschild in the Department of Material Engineering and Professor Yair Ein-Eli in the Department of Chemical Engineering participated in the event as speakers and panelists.
From the Department of Material Science and Engineering at KAIST, Professor Il-Doo Kim, Byong-Guk Park, and Yeon-Sik Jung participated. Other than the Department of Material Science and Engineering, Professor Chan-Ho Yang in the Department of Physics, and Professor Doh-Chang Lee in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering joined the event as speakers.
The topics covered by the professors at the symposium include “Next Generation Lithium-Air Battery”, “Nano Materials for High Performance Energy Storage Systems”, and “Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Photo-electrode for the Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy”.
In order to encourage further collaborative research and international gathering among the three leading institutes, KAIST is planning to dispatch six students to MIT and one student to Technion Institute of Technology to help scholars share their expertise and better understand the recent trend in material science and nanotechnology.