
MULTI-FUNCTIONAL ALLOYS LABORATORY
TECH UNIVERSITY OF KOREA (TU Korea)
MY RESEARCH BLOG
22. May. 2025
MFAL was spotlighted as excellent research on the hydrogen embrittlement of medium-Mn steel after friction-stir welding (source: "Dependence of friction-stir welding on mechanism of hydrogen embrittlement in medium-Mn steel with triplex-phase microstructure", K.-M. Kwon et al., Acta Mater. 292 (2025) 121059).


중부일보: https://www.joongboo.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=363693369
대학저널: https://dhnews.co.kr/news/view/1065590368782860
교수신문: https://www.kyosu.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=135494
뉴시스: https://www.newsis.com/view/NISX20250522_0003186733
컨슈머타임스: https://www.cstimes.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=648289
베리타스 알파: https://www.veritas-a.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=554937
중앙이코니모니뉴스: https://www.joongangenews.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=422487
7. March. 2025
MFAL was spotlighted as excellent research on the aluminum-added steels with wear resistance and lightweight (source: "Al addition-enabled enhancement of wear resistance through adhesion of oxides in AISI4340 steel", D.-K. Kim et al., Tribol. Inter. 204 (2025) 110453).


전자신문 https://www.etnews.com/20250307000317
조선일보 https://lifenlearning.chosun.com/pan/site/data/html_dir/2025/03/07/2025030700832.html
전기신문 https://www.electimes.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=351504
내일신문 https://www.naeil.com/news/read/540403?ref=naver
베리타스알파 https://www.veritas-a.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=544983
교내 홈페이지 https://www.tukorea.ac.kr/bbs/tukorea/108/138152/artclView.do?layout=unknown
29. Octo. 2024
Hyo-Nam Choi received a grand prize for oral presentation at the fall conference of KIMM2024. The presentation title was "Dynamic recrystallization behavior and textural evolution of medium Mn steel after friciton-stir welding (FSW)".



26. April. 2024
Jong-Hun Kim received a grand prize for oral presentation at the spring conference of KIMM2024. The presentation title was "The effect of welding speed on texture evolution, recrystallization behavior and strengthening mechanism of 7075 aluminum after friction-stir welding".

27. October. 2023
Minjae Kang received a grand prize for poster presentation at the autumn conference of KIMM2023. The presentation title was "Effect of Aluminum of microstructure and wear properties of AISI4340 martensitic steels".

27. October. 2023
Kyo-Min Kwon received a grand prize for oral presentation at the autumn conference of KIMM2023. The presentation title was "Comparative study on hydrogen embrittlement behavior between friction-stir welded (FSW) and tungsten inert gas (TIG) welded Fe-18Mn-0.6C twinning-induced plasticity (TWIP) steel".

28. October. 2022
Dong-Kyu Kim received a grand prize for oral presentation at the autumn conference of KIMM2022. The presentation title was "Microstructure and wear properties of dual phase (DP) steel and Quenching and partitioning (Q&P) steel".

17. June. 2022
Jong-Hun Kim received a grand prize for oral presentation at the spring conference of Korean Society for Heat Treatment 2022. The presentation title was "Effect of friction-stir welding on charpy impact property of AA7075-T6 alloy".

29. April. 2022
Kyo-Min Kwon received a grand prize for oral presentation at the spring conference of KIMM 2022. The presentation title was "Effect of friction-stir welding
on hydrogen embrittlement of Fe-17Mn alloy".

27. October. 2021
Jong-Wook Park received a grand prize for poster presentation at the autumn conference of KIMM 2021. The presentation title was "Wear resistance of Fe-17Mn alloy after friction stir welding".


28. April. 2021
Prof. Lee received awards from The Korean Institute of Metals and Materials (KIMM).

25. February. 2021
Prof. Lee was selected as a 2020 Outstanding Reviewer of Materialia.

17. December. 2018
Prof. Lee received awards from The Japan Welding Society (JWS).
