Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that a joint research team led by Professor Do-Nyun Kim of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University and Professor Chanseok Lee of the School of Biomedical Convergence Engineering at Hanyang University has developed an automated design technology that enables the creation of DNA origami structures exactly matching user-drawn shapes using generative AI.

Inspired by fish lateral lines, researchers developed a lightweight, miniaturized sensing unit that estimates both flow speed and direction. Combined with a neural network and an inertial measurement unit, the single unit was validated on an underwater robot during multiple motion states and attitude disturbances, reflecting practical underwater operating conditions.

Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that a research team led by Professor So Youn Kim of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, in collaboration with Professor Su-Mi Hur’s team at DGIST and Professor S. Joon Kwon’s team at Sungkyunkwan University, has developed a methodology to precisely design and control the “degree of disorder” in nanopattern arrays using metal-infiltrated block copolymer (BCP) thin films.

Seoul National University College of Engineering announced that a research team led by Professor Jong-Ho Lee of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (former Minister of Science and ICT) has demonstrated, for the first time, an artificial intelligence semiconductor technology that integrates the core functions of generative AI into a single device platform based on ferroelectric memory.

In group decision-making, discussing from an overarching perspective is often difficult. Imagining oneself from a third-person perspective during group discussions may significantly change how people communicate and make decisions together. In this context, researchers investigated the effect of third-person perspective and first-person perspective in a virtual environment on group decision-making. They found that participants using a third-person perspective in virtual reality showed better consensus, improved understanding of others’ opinions, and reduced conflict.

Newly developed method allows for dynamically switching chirality—a particular lack of mirror symmetry—to generate spin currents in semiconductors, report researchers from Science Tokyo. Their approach relies on reversible insertion and removal of small chiral molecules from the interlayer gaps of a layered, non-chiral semiconductor material using electrochemistry. The findings could pave the way for the development of novel chiral spintronic materials and technologies that do not rely on magnets or magnetic fields.

Dr Jorge Íñiguez-González, Head of the Modeling of Functional Materials group at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), has been awarded a highly competitive European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant for his project on a new class of artificial materials. The €2.5 million project will explore these new generation of materials whose properties can be reconfigured on demand.

The project builds on groundbreaking work published in Nature in 2024, in which Íñiguez-González and colleagues helped establish a new approach to designing materials by stacking ultra-thin crystalline oxide layers at carefully controlled angles. The resulting structures belong to an emerging field known as "twistronics", where a simple change in the angle between layers can dramatically alter a material's behaviour.