Key Research Areas

As a leading composite materials research center, the KIST Jeonbuk Institutepioneers industrial development and the advancement of national scientific technology through its R&D efforts in developing original technology concerning cutting-edge composite materials with high performance and high value and carbon-based composite materials. Such efforts are expected to help replace imported resources and create new industries.

Functional Composite Materials Research Center

With the goal of developing original technologies concerning high quality cutting-edge functional composite materials and commercializing them, the research center focuses on understanding the micro-phenomena of composite materials and controlling/applying them.

Carbon Composite Materials
Research Center

The center focuses on the production, fibrosis, high-performance creation and high function creation of carbon fiber, carbon nanotubes and graphene as well as high molecular composite material research using these materials. It also plays an important role in ensuring environment-friendly production of carbon fiber composite materials and resolving recycling-related issues through R&D efforts in recycling and repairing.

Composite Materials Applications Research Center

The center aims to develop composite materials with multiple functions surpassing the properties of existing materials and develop ultra-lightweight structural composite materials that can be applied to the fields of aerospace, automotive and construction. It also focuses on gaining a basic understanding of the physical and chemical properties of materials and developing new composite materials through inducing property-enhancing mechanisms.

Research achievement

International Cooperation

KIST is a global science & technology research institute and a leader among peer institutes in Korea in support of innovative international programs and initiatives as well as working directly with international communities, countries, and partner institutes...

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Researchers develop recyclable flame-retardant carbon-fiber-reinforced plastic




2020-06-10

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