Industrial Materials Research Group

• Ti & Al manufacturing & Products solutions

• Ti sheet manufacturing process & quality improvement
    - Surface quality Enhancement of Ti products
    - Titanium Cathode Plate for Copper Foil Making
    - Ti alloys design & manufacturing for Aircraft
       applications
• Al alloys design and producing
    - Casting technology for automotive parts
    - Al alloys for EV battery housing and Aircraft

• Mg & Cu alloys Manufacturing & Applications

• Mg alloys design & wide coil manufacturing
    - Strip Casting of wide Mg sheet coil
    - Mg refining technologies for high purity & alloying
    - Application study of Mg sheet
• Cu alloys for high strength & high conductivity
    - Continuous casting & rolling of high purity Cu
        alloys
    - Rolling for high thickness accuracy & defects
       reduction

• Core Materials and Components for New Mobility

• Materials and applications for Eco-friendly vehicles
    - High Mn steel for Hydrogen transportation piping
    - Ti bipolar plate for FCEV
    - High pressure H2 storage tank with Wire-wound
       method
• Development & application of soft magnetic materials for high performance motor
    - Fabrication of high magnetic saturation & low core
       loss thin plate
     - Design and modularization of high performance
       motor core

• Metal powder manufacturing & 3D printing

• Metal powder mass production & applications
    - Water Atomization: Fe powder, tool steel powder
    - Gas Atomization: soft magnetic powder, High Mn
       steel powder
    - Metal powder applications: High Si electric steel
       sheet, high performance Inductor/MLCC
       Electrode
• 3D Printing process & applications
     - DfAM parts design for high productivity
    - Service life extension for high Temp. applications
    - Assessment of 3D printing parts properties & post
       processing

• Ni smelting and high purity technologies

• Pyro/Hydro metallurgical technology of Ni oxide ore
    - Drying/Calcination and H2 reduction process
    - Ni, Co leaching and cementation process
• High purity technology of Ni, Co sulfate
    - Solvent extraction and crystallization process
• Ni, Co, Li recovery technology from various LiB scrap

• Research on high value-added rare metals and resources

• Rare metal smelting and refining technology
    - REE(Nd, Sc etc.) separation and refining process
    - Fluidized bed chlorination of Ti
    - Ferroalloy EAF refining process
• High value-added technology of resources
    - Manufacturing technology of mineral wool
    - High purity silicate ore manufacturing technology
    - Recycling technology of FeMn dust and PM scrap

• Ceramic single crystal growth technologies

• SiC single crystal wafer manufacturing
    - 100, 150mm SiC single crystal growth technology
       for high power device applications
    - Precise wafer processing technologies
    - 150mm SiC epitaxial growth for high power device
    - 100mm HPSI SiC single crystal growth technology
       for 5G
• AlN single crystal growth technology for UV_C LED

• Amorphous metal manufacturing & applications

• Amorphous ribbon fabrication technology
    - Casting of high purity Fe-base amorphous alloy and continuous coiling process
    - Application of amorphous ribbon in core part of
       transformer
• Fabrication & application technology of bulk amorphous alloy
    - Fe/Zr-based bulk amorphous alloy design and
       development of rapid solidification process
    - Application study on electric components(bezel,
       hinge part of mobile phone)