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The experiments at the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory were supported in part by MOST and Pohang Iron and Steel (POSCO). Special thank to Isao Tanaka for supporting the ab initio total-energy and molecular dynamics program VASP (Vienna ab initio simulation package). 

CERs are also appearing in South Korea, e.g. Posco (mining/minerals), which again ties in with its relatively high place (tenth) in the world ISO 14001 league. 

Acknowledgment We gratefully acknowledge the Creative Research Initiatives, Brain Korea 21, and World Class University (WCU) (Project No. R31-2008-000-10059-0) programs of the Korean Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MOEST), and the Steel Science Programs of POSCO for support of this work. 

Korea Steel Chemical Company (KOSCO), Pohang, South Korea—a company within the Daewoo Group. Acquired technology and some carbon fiber manufacturing plant from RK Textiles Composite Fibers in 1986. Have now been acquired by Pohang Steel Company (POSCO) and the production of Kosca carbon fibers is now limited. 

Three companies are known to be pursuing MCFC technology in the Far East Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries (IHI) (Japan), Posco (Korea), and Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction (DHI) (Korea). Although there has been some recent academic activity [21, 25, 26], and a development program reportedly reached the kilowatts scale at the Fuel Cell Institute of Shanghai Jiaotong University [27, 28], no Taiwanese or Chinese industrial vendors are known to the authors. 

The South Korean government has been supporting the growth of the FC industry in the framework of the country s economic policy POSCO Power and the... 

POSCO Power is the exclusive supplier of MCFC systems in Korea under a technology transfer agreement with FCE it has just completed the constraction of its FC stack manufacturing plant in the city of Pohang. The facility now has the capacity to produce 100 MW worth of MCFC stacks annually and the complex has installed a 2.4 MW FC power plant... 

This work was supported by a POSTECH/BSRI special fond (1998) and the Korean Foundation of Science and Engineering ( 97-05-02-03-01-3). Synchrotron SAXS experiments at the PLS (3C2 beam line) were supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) and Pohang Iron Steel Co. (POSCO). 

Experiments performed at Pohang Light Source (PLS) were supported in part by MOST and POSCO. We are very grateful to Y. J. Park for his assistance during SAXS experiments at PLS. K. Char is also very grateful to the LG-Yonam Foundation for its financial support during a sabbatical visit (1997 1998) to Cornell University. 

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