US-Korea Nano Bio Info Technology (NBIT) Program

Background
Both the US and Korea have made a substantial investment in nanotechnology over the past several years, and the same trend is expected to continue into the near future. In order to provide an opportunity for scientists and engineers in both countries to collaborate particularly in the areas of “nanostructured materials,” “nanoelectronics” and “nano-biotechnology,” the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has been supporting a series of US-Korea Workshops since 2002. As a result of these interactions, 17 exploratory research grants were arranged for a number of universities in Korea in 2005 under the AFOSR Nanoscience Initiative. Among them, 4 research grants were implemented with full matching support from the Ministry of Science & Technology (MOST) in Korea through the Center for Nanostructured Materials Technology (CNMT). In 2007, the Nano-Bio-Information Technology (NBIT) Convergence Program was initiated.  A total of 10 research projects was established for NBIT Phase I (2007-2010) involving selected teams of researchers from premier research universities in the US and Korea.  Three of the Phase I projects continued along with six new ones forming a total of nine collaborative research grants for Phase II (2010-2013) which is supported by the Korea National Research Foundation (NRF) and AFOSR.

Phase I (2007-2010)

1. “Nanoscaling Laws of Magnetic Nanoparticles and Their Biomedical Applications”
Prof. Jinwoo Cheon (Yonsei Univ.)                                                            
Prof. Paul Alivisatos (Univ. of California, Berkeley)

2. “Electronic, Photonic and Magnetic Properties of Natural and Modified DNAs”
Prof. Dong-Hoon Choi (Korea Univ.)
Prof. Andrew Steckl (Univ. of Cincinnati)

3. "Template-directed Assembly Strategies”
Prof. Seunghun Hong (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Prof. Chad A. Mirkin (Northwestern Univ.)

4. “Si-Ge Alloy Nanowire Photonics”
Prof. Moon-Ho Jo (Pohang Univ. of Sci. & Technology)
Prof. Miyoung Kim (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Prof. Hongkun Park (Harvard Univ.)

5. “High Resolution, Large Area, Nanoprint Lithography using Electron Lattice Images and Electron-emitting Nanoprobes”
Prof. Ki-Bum Kim (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Prof. Sungho Jin (Univ. of California, San Diego) 

6. “Hierarchical Carbon Fiber Composites”
Prof. Kun-Hong Lee (Pohang Univ. of Sci. & Technology)
Prof. Sang-Gi Lee (Ehwa Univ.)
Prof. H. Thomas Hahn (Univ. of Calif., Los Angeles) 

7. “Extremely Low Noise Carbon Nanotubes for Peltier and Photo-detector Device Applications”
Prof. Young-Hee Lee (Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
Prof. Moon J. Kim (Univ. of Texas at Dallas) 
Prof. Minhee Yun (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

8. “Self-Assembled Liquid-Crystalline Gels: from Nanostructure to Function” 
Prof. Soo-Young Park (Kyungpook Nat'l Univ.)
Prof. Julie Kornfield (California Inst. of Technology)

9. “1-D Semimetal-semiconductor Homo-junction Nanowires for Uncooled IR Detection & Microelectronic Coolers”
Prof. Hyunjung Shin (Kookmin Univ.)
Prof. Jimmy Xu (Brown Univ.)

10. “Distributed Detection of Attacks/Intrusions & Prevention of Resource-Starvation Attacks in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”
Prof. Jong Kim (Pohang Univ. of Sci. & Technology)
Prof. Kang Shin (Univ. of Michigan)

Phase II (2010-2013)

1. "Massively Parallel Nanostructure Assembly Strategies for Sensing and Information Technologies”
Prof. Seunghun Hong (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Prof. Chad A. Mirkin (Northwestern Univ.)

2. “Integrated Nano Optoplasmonics”
Prof. Moon-Ho Jo (Pohang Univ. of Sci. & Technology >> Yonsei Univ.)
Prof. Hongkun Park (Harvard Univ.)

3. “Large Area Graphene Synthesis and its Applications”
Prof. Young-Hee Lee (Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
Prof. Moon J. Kim (Univ. of Texas at Dallas) 
Prof. Minhee Yun (Univ. of Pittsburgh)

4. “Multifunctional Yarns and Fabrics for Energy Applications”
Prof. Seon-Jeong Kim (Hanyang Univ.)
Prof. Ray Baughman (Univ. of Texas at Dallas) 

5. “Nano-engineered Materials for Controlled Thermal Transport and Harvesting”
Prof. Ki-Bum Kim (Seoul Nat'l Univ.)
Prof. Jimmy Xu (Brown Univ.) 

6. “Meso size effect (MSE) from Self-Assembled Carbon Structures and their Device Applications”
Prof. Hee Cheul Choi (Pohang Univ. of Sci. & Technology)
Prof. Jiwoong Park (Cornell Univ.) 

7. “Metal-free and Oxygen-free Graphene as Oxygen Reduction Catalysts for Highly Efficient Fuel Cells”
Prof. Jong-Beom Baek (Ulsan National Inst. of Sci. & Technology)
Prof. Liming Dai (Case Western Reserve Univ.) 

8. “Large-Scale Energy Harvesting Based on Piezoelectric Nanogenerators”
Prof. Sang-Woo Kim (Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
Prof. Zhong-Lin Wang (Georgia Inst. of Technology) 

9. “Tunable PhoXonic Band Gap Materials from Self-Assembly of Block Copolymers”
Prof. Young-Jong Kang (Hanyang Univ.)
Prof. Edwin Thomas (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology >> Rice Univ.)

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Jeremy Knopp, Ph.D.
Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development (AOARD)
7-23-17 Roppongi, Minato-ku
Tokyo, Japan 106-0032
aoard.nbit@us.af.mil
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