Pukyong National University

3 student teams of PKNU, selected for the 'Support Project for Startup Exploration' by the NRF

- Prototypes were produced and promoted for the research team's inventions ... A project with a grant KRW 98 million

△ Pukyong National University students selected for the '2021 Public Technology-based Market Linked Startup Exploration Support Project'. From the left: Han Won, Kim Ye-Rin, Park Se-Bin, Lim Joo-Hee, Park Soo-Min, Lee Chae-Won, Park Seo-Hyeon, Embleton Tom James. ⓒPhoto Lee Sung-Jae (PR Team)

'A small antibody dispenser with increased convenience, a tester that can diagnose acute inflammation with a single drop of blood, and a cathode material that increases the capacity of lithium secondary batteries'

Pukyong National University (President Jang Young-Soo) attracts public attention as three teams have been selected for the National Research Foundation's 'Public Technology-based Market Linked Startup Exploration Support Project of 2021 year'.

The ‘public technology-based market-linked start-up search support project’ is a support project to create jobs and contribute to new market development and innovative growth by activating laboratory start-ups centered on young researchers in the laboratory.

Pukyong National University has three teams selected for this project, two teams from the Biomedical Engineering, Industry 4.0 Convergence Bionics Engineering, and one team from Department of Smart Green-Tech Convergence Engineering, and they receive a total of KRW 98 million grant and start making prototypes of inventions using the technology developed in the laboratory.

Kim Ye-Rin (1st year in master's program) of the Department of 4.0 Industrial Convergence Bionics Engineering, and Han Won (4th Year)'s team from the Biomedical Engineering (Advisory Prof. Shin Joong-Ho) were selected for the project with the task of 'Antibody dispenser that can solve errors in results caused by direct dispensing of antibodies by researchers in the field of in vitro diagnostics'. Through this project, they produce an antibody dispenser in a small size, which was difficult to use in small laboratories due to its high price and large volume. And it is manufactured so that antigens can be quickly and easily fixed on paper by increasing user convenience.

The research team (Advisory Prof. Shin Joong-Ho) with Park Se-Bin (4th grade), Lim Joo-Hee (3rd grade), Park Soo-Min (2nd year in Master's) from the 4.0 Industrial Convergence Bionics Engineering participated in the project with the task of 'High-sensitivity lateral flow immunochromatography system for detecting capillary blood CRP for infants and young children'. The goal of this project is to produce a test device that can diagnose with just a drop of blood from a fingertip or heel to solve the difficulty of collecting blood from venous blood when diagnosing acute inflammation in infants and young children.

Along with this, a team (Advisory Prof. Oh Pil-Gun) of Park Seo-Hyeon (2nd Year in Master's), Lee Chae-Won (1st year in Master's), and Embleton Tom James (1st Year in Doctorate Program) from the Department of Smart Green-Tech Convergence Engineering was selected for the project 'Anode material using dual doping for lithium secondary battery with high capacity and long-life performance'. Unlike the existing method of doping only one element to the LCO cathode material of a lithium secondary battery, which had a low-capacity limit, they produced a 'cobalt-rich cathode material' that maximized structural stability and increased capacity by doping two elements. <Pukyong Today>