Abstract: A tool for surgical operation using ultrasonic waves is provided. The tool includes a transducer generating ultrasonic waves, a cylindrical bar-shaped transmitting rod for transmitting the ultrasonic waves, an end effector for cutting a surgical site using the ultrasonic waves transmitted from the transmitting rod, extended from one end of the transmitting rod, in which a part of the circular cross-sectional area thereof is flatly formed from the point corresponding to a second vibration node so as to allow gain step to start at the second vibration node, a rod cover for encompassing the transmitting rod using, as connection points, a plurality of vibration nodes formed when ultrasonic waves are transmitted through the transmitting rod, and a jaw for holding the surgical site while engaged with the end effector, is combined to one end of the rod cover in a pivotable manner, and is positioned to face the end effector.

Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes: a user interface configured to adjust a friction force between the user interface and a pen; and a controller configured to, in response to a pen being touched and moved on the user interface, control the user interface to adjust the friction force based on an input mode of the pen.

Abstract: A metamaterial structure may include a first nanoparticle and a second nanoparticle containing a different material from the first nanoparticle. The first and second nanoparticles may be provided to be adjacent to each other and to be in an electrically-coupled state.

Abstract: Disclosed are a cathode active material for secondary batteries and a lithium secondary battery including the same. More particularly, a cathode active material for secondary batteries having an operating voltage area of 2.50 V to 4.35 V, including a lithium cobalt-based oxide and a surface-treated lithium nickel-based oxide and having high rolling density by a bimodal form in which an average diameter of the cobalt-based oxide and an average diameter of the lithium nickel-based composite oxide are different, and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed.

Abstract: A binder composition for a rechargeable lithium battery includes: an interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) structure including a cyclic polymer including a structural unit represented by Chemical Formula 1 or a structural unit represented by Chemical Formula 2, and polyacrylamide. A method of preparing the same, and an electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same are also disclosed. In Chemical Formulae 1 and 2, R1 to R3, R11 to R16, and n and m are the same as defined in the detailed description.

Abstract: Disclosed are an electrode assembly for secondary batteries and a lithium secondary battery including the same. More particularly, an electrode assembly including a cathode, an anode and a separator, wherein the cathode includes a lithium cobalt-based oxide, and a lithium nickel-based composite oxide forming a coating layer over a surface of the lithium nickel-based composite oxide by reacting with a fluorine-containing polymer, as a cathode active material, the anode includes carbon and a silicon oxide as an anode active material, an operating voltage is 2.50 V to 4.35 V, and the cathode active material has high rolling density by a bimodal form in which an average diameter of the cobalt-based oxide and an average diameter of the lithium nickel-based composite oxide are different, and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed.

Abstract: A lens driving assembly includes a cam barrel having an opening in an outer circumferential surface thereof and that rotates around an optical axis, a front barrel accommodated in the cam barrel and that moves in an optical axis direction corresponding to rotation of the cam barrel, and a first lens group assembly that pivots between a home position that is deviated from the optical axis and an alignment position that is aligned with the optical axis, in which the first lens group assembly moves through the opening between the home position and the alignment position according to the rotation of the cam barrel and an elastic force.

Abstract: A lens barrel may be detachably coupled to a capturing device may comprise a first lens assembly having first lenses mounted therein. A second lens assembly may be coupled to the first lens assembly and may have second lenses mounted therein. The second lenses may be aligned with the first lenses along an optic axis, and an adjusting portion may be provided in the first lens assembly and may be configured to adjust a position of the first lenses relative to the second lenses along a direction the optic axis by an electromagnetic force.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing 2,3-butanediol using a recombinant yeast having a 2,3-butanediol biosynthesis pathway controlled in a metabolic engineering manner. The method enables production of 2,3-butanediol at high production efficiency from glucose or xylose using a recombinant yeast wherein enzymatic activity of pyruvate decarboxylase is inhibited and exotic genes associated with 2,3-butanediol biosynthesis are introduced.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition containing, as an active ingredient, a Liriodendron tulipifera L. bark extract for treating chronic myelogneous leukemia. More specifically, the present invention relates to the pharmaceutical composition, containing, as the active ingredient, the Liriodendron tulipifera L. bark extract useful in selectively inhibiting mutant enzyme T315I from a mutation of a BCR-ABL fusion gene that causes chronic myelogenous leukemia, and to a use of epi-Tulipinolide which is an active ingredient of the composition.

Abstract: A binder composition for a rechargeable lithium battery includes: an interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) structure including a cyclic polymer including a structural unit represented by Chemical Formula 1 or a structural unit represented by Chemical Formula 2, and polyacrylamide. A method of preparing the same, and an electrode for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same are also disclosed. In Chemical Formulae 1 and 2, R1 to R3, R11 to R16, and n and m are the same as defined in the detailed description.

Abstract: A display apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes: a user interface configured to adjust a friction force between the user interface and a pen; and a controller configured to, in response to a pen being touched and moved on the user interface, control the user interface to adjust the friction force based on an input mode of the pen.

Abstract: An application design server, method and system are provided. The application design server according to an exemplary embodiment includes a communicator configured to receive design data from a first host device and a controller configured to, in response to receiving a request for the design data from a second host device, transmit the received design data to the second host device, and in response to receiving updated design data corresponding to the design data from the first host device, control the communicator to transmit the updated design data to the second host device.

Abstract: A lens driving assembly includes a cam barrel having an opening in an outer circumferential surface thereof and that rotates around an optical axis, a front barrel accommodated in the cam barrel and that moves in an optical axis direction corresponding to rotation of the cam barrel, and a first lens group assembly that pivots between a home position that is deviated from the optical axis and an alignment position that is aligned with the optical axis, in which the first lens group assembly moves through the opening between the home position and the alignment position according to the rotation of the cam barrel and an elastic force.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing 2,3-butanediol using a recombinant yeast having a 2,3-butanediol biosynthesis pathway controlled in a metabolic engineering manner. The method enables production of 2,3-butanediol at high production efficiency from glucose or xylose using a recombinant yeast wherein enzymatic activity of pyruvate decarboxylase is inhibited and exotic genes associated with 2,3-butanediol biosynthesis are introduced.