Enzymes are essential in industries such as food production and pharmaceuticals, but natural enzymes often need improvements for commercial applications. Researchers in Japan have developed an in vitro selection platform, SMART, which could produce custom enzyme much more quickly and cost-effectively than conventional methods.

A research team led by Dr. Nam Ki-Hun at the Battery Materials and Process Research Center of the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) has successfully developed a nano-tin (Sn) interlayer control technology to address interfacial instability between the lithium metal anode and solid electrolyte, a critical hurdle to the commercialization of all-solid-state batteries, often hailed as the next generation of batteries. The research was featured as a front cover article in Advanced Energy Materials (IF=26.0), a globally renowned journal in the field of energy and materials science ranked within the top 2.7% worldwide and has attracted widespread international recognition.

A research team led by Prof. HAO Ning of the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with Anhui University and the University of Science and Technology of China, has identified two distinct types of unusual low-energy quasiparticle states in the kagome superconductor CsV₃Sb₅ using single-atom impurities as local "quantum probes" combined with scanning tunnelling spectroscopy.

A research team led by Professor Young-Jun Kim at the Sungkyunkwan Advanced Institute of Nano Technology (SAINT) of SKKU has announced a breakthrough in "Dry Electrode" technology-a next-generation manufacturing process for batteries. The team has secured original technology for electrodes with world-class energy density by developing materials optimized for solvent-free electrode processing, a feat expected to shift the paradigm of battery production.