The gains are probably best illustrated in the field of material science, in which the number of publications has grown from almost none in the early 1980s to the largest in the world now.

Materials science and engineering is a highly interdisciplinary field drawing on many fundamental disciplines to advance the design and discovery of new materials for use in virtually all areas of ...

For 75 years, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) at Seoul National University has been at the centre of South Korea’s rapid growth as an industrial manufacturing and ...