Researchers have introduced a laser-triggered material platform that allows soft electronic devices and soft robots to be selectively erased, reshaped, or reprogrammed from a distance. By using light as a remote “transform button,” the technology enables rapid, localized decomposition of soft materials—opening new possibilities for secure device disposal, adaptive robotics, and operation in hard-to-access, resource-limited environments.

A synergistic paradigm to drive reactive chlorine chemistry inside porphyrinic zirconium frameworks is provided, and a avenue to merge catalytic, photothermal, and oxidative modes for enhanced antibacterial, detoxifying, and antitumor activities is opened.

Researchers have introduced a laser-triggered material platform that allows soft electronic devices and soft robots to be selectively erased, reshaped, or reprogrammed from a distance. By using light as a remote “transform button,” the technology enables rapid, localized decomposition of soft materials—opening new possibilities for secure device disposal, adaptive robotics, and operation in hard-to-access, resource-limited environments.

A Korean-developed integrated design framework has been developed to comprehensively analyze “ship survivability”—a naval vessel’s ability to avoid enemy attack, withstand damage when hit, restore key functions after damage, and continue its mission. The key achievement is the integration of survivability analyses that had previously been performed using separate software tools into a single software environment.

A core audiovisual convergence display technology has been developed that allows sound to be heard from the exact location of a person or object shown on the screen. Without separate speakers, the technology vibrates the display panel itself to generate sound from a selected area of the screen. It can also move the sound-emitting location in real time as the sound source moves across the screen.

A research team led by Senior Researcher Minyoung Lee and Principal Researcher Sunggyu Park of the Advanced Bio and Healthcare Materials Research Division at the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS), headed by President Chul-jin Choi, has developed a label-free surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) analysis technology that rapidly detects extremely low concentrations of viable bacteria by directly growing plasmonic metal nanostructures on and around bacterial cells.