A venue was set up to strengthen national competitiveness through the establishment of a world-class basic research environment and the convergence of basic research and business.

On the 7th, a technology transfer briefing session for the 2021 Science Belt Functional Zone bidirectional technology demand discovery linkage was held in Seminar Room A, Hall D, at the 2022 Smart Factory & Automation Industry Exhibition at COEX in Samseong-dong, organized by Technology & Happiness Co., Ltd., the Korea R&D Special Zone Foundation, and Insight Biz Lab Co., Ltd., in cooperation with the Institute for Basic Science, the Korea Automotive Technology Institute, the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, Chungbuk Technopark, Chungnam Technopark, and Sejong Technopark.

This event was held as part of a support initiative to enable companies to conduct business by receiving technology developed in the Science Business Belt (Sejong, Cheonan, and Cheongju).

At this event, major technology presentations were held, including △nano-particle anticancer agents (Institute for Basic Science) △OBC signal processing and relay driving device for micro electric vehicles (Korea Automotive Research Institute) △regenerative braking control device and method for electric vehicles (Korea Institute of Industrial Technology) △UV-sensitive self-healing polymer and method for manufacturing the same (Korea Institute of Industrial Technology) △manufacturing technology for surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrates for simplifying blood test pretreatment (Korea Institute of Industrial Technology).

Prior to this, the Science Belt project was introduced by the Special Research and Development Zone Promotion Foundation, and a seminar was held by the Korea Hydrogen Mobility Headquarters to examine trends in the hydrogen industry and technology.

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Lee Bang-hee, Manager at Insight Biz Lab (event organizer), conducted the briefing session.

The main objectives of the Science Belt Support Project are to revitalize the cultivation of talent in specialized fields within the Science Belt region, discover and transfer public technologies within the Science Belt, create, disseminate, and commercialize excellent research results, and spread the achievements of the Science Belt through demand-tailored growth support. The Science Belt Support Project is being implemented on a scale of 8 billion won across a total of 10 detailed projects.

Kim Yong-eun, a principal researcher at the Korea Automotive Research Institute, gave a presentation on electric vehicle slow-charging infrastructure. He stated that amidst growing interest in ultra-compact electric drive units due to rising concerns about environmental pollution, slow-charging infrastructure integration modules are already being used by public institutions and are on the rise, describing them as the fastest and most economical solution for charging ultra-compact electric drive units.

Ko Young-jin, Director of the Flying Car Research Center at the Korea Automotive Research Institute, announced the development of an eBooster capable of sacrificial braking cooperative control and braking pressure control for ultra-compact electric vehicles. This technology aims to minimize the driver's sensation of unfamiliarity with pedal pressure while simultaneously controlling the braking pressure of the drive wheels and maximizing recovered energy based on optimized sacrificial braking logic.

Following this, Lee Seon-jong, a senior researcher at the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, gave a presentation on the prospects of self-healing coatings and the characteristics of self-healing materials. Self-healing materials are significant in that they make it possible to develop new types of wires by developing electrical conductors using temperature-sensitive self-healing polymers.

Kim Hyun-jong, a principal researcher in the Eco-friendly Thermal Surface Treatment Research Division at the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, discussed surface-enhanced Raman scattering substrate manufacturing technology for realizing high-sensitivity chemical biosensors. Raman scattering is a phenomenon in which light of a frequency changed by the intrinsic vibrational or rotational energy of a molecule is scattered. Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) refers to a phenomenon where the intensity of Raman scattering increases by more than tens of thousands of times when molecules emitting Raman scattering signals are located on the surface of a metal nanostructure. The advantages of SERS include real-time detection, high sensitivity detection at the ppb level, multi-component measurement, and miniaturization and lightweighting.

After the briefing session, an opportunity was also provided to resolve questions through one-on-one individual consultations.