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Hub Overview
Daejeon is South Korea's research capital, a planned science city built around the Daedeok Innopolis cluster and KAIST. Its nanotechnology centers on the National NanoFab Center, an open-access cleanroom on the KAIST campus that provides semiconductor, MEMS, and nano-bio fabrication to companies, universities, and institutes across the country. Around it sits one of Asia's densest concentrations of government research institutes, covering standards, chemistry, electronics, machinery, and energy, which gives Daejeon unusual breadth from basic science through to commercialization.
Almost everything is concentrated in Daedeok, north of central Daejeon, where KAIST, the national institutes, startup infrastructure, and technology transfer programs sit together in a single planned district. The National NanoFab Center is the practical anchor for outside users, since it runs as a shared national facility rather than a single university lab. Daejeon is strongest in nano-convergence, semiconductors, advanced materials, precision machinery, biotechnology, and the quantum technologies now being built out in new open fabs. Korean institutions often list research groups as individual faculty profiles rather than standalone group pages, with much detail on Korean-language pages, so the labs listed here understate the region's true research volume.
Research Map
Locations of nanotechnology research labs and companies across the Daejeon area. Click any marker for the institution’s profile and to find hotels nearby.
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Company
Key Institutions
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
8 nano groups
Chungnam National University
1 nano group
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
1 nano group
Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials
1 nano group
Korea Research Institute
1 nano group
Research Labs & Groups
The following nanotechnology research groups and labs are based in the Daejeon area.
University
Daejeon
The group synthesizes zeolite and silicoaluminophosphate nanoplate and nanostructured materials for catalysis, adsorption and membrane separation.
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Lab
Daejeon
The lab provides advanced semiconductor R&D infrastructure, including fabrication, foundry, MEMS, sensor, packaging, and materials-analysis capabilities, supporting development from prototype design through process optimization and technology validation.
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University
Daejeon
The center conducts nanotechnology-based research on high-energy and high-power rechargeable batteries, including redox-flow and lithium battery systems.
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University
Daejeon
The group uses polymeric templating, electrospinning, nanomaterials synthetic techniques to explore novel and versatile synthesis routes for producing multi-dimensional nanostructures and various metallic, metal-oxide nanomaterials and nanoinks optimized for applications to energy, environment, and nanoelectronics.
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University
Daejeon
The group's research focuses on condensed-matter physics and materials chemistry of metal phosphates and oxides, and materials design and synthesis for advanced lithium batteries, covering atomic-scale characterization with HREM and STEM, and nanostructure control of materials interfaces.
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University
Daejeon
The group conducts research on bioinspired materials relevant for energy-related nanomaterials.
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University
Daejeon
The center develops laser and nanomaterial processing technologies and printable functional materials for next-generation three-dimensional and flexible displays.
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University
Daejeon
The group is interested in enhancing device performances by using novel nanotechnologies. They are studying new self-assembly materials forming sub-10 nm nanostructures based on polymers and nanoparticles. Their novel self-assembling systems aim for much superior precision, reliability, and reproducibility that are adequate for large-scale manufacturing of nanoscale devices. Applications include sub-10 nm lithography, information storage devices and energy storage/capture devices.
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University
Daejeon
The group works on nanopatterning and molecular self-assembly and on two-dimensional materials such as graphene and MXene for gas sensors, catalysis and membranes.
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University
Daejeon
The group studies block-copolymer self-assembly and nanolithography, carbon nanotubes and graphene, and their application to nanopatterning and to energy and electronic devices.
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Lab
Daejeon
The division develops nano-convergence manufacturing technologies, including nanoimprint and nanolithography, large-area nanopatterning, and ultra-precision nano-fabrication for devices, displays and optical components.
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Lab
Daejeon
The research center is involved in the development of nanobiochips, nanobiosensors and nanobiomaterials by utilizing biocontents.
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Nanotech Companies
Commercial nanotechnology companies based in the Daejeon area.
Products
Daejeon
Manufactures tabletop and full-size scanning electron microscopes and argon ion-beam cross-section polishers for materials science and life-science analysis.
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Materials
Daejeon
Develops functional additives including anti-dripping and flame-retardant agents for plastics using proprietary nanoparticle dispersion technology.
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Materials
Daejeon
Develops reflective electronic-paper display materials based on nanoparticle electrophoretic ink, offering tunable light transmittance and full-color capability.
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