A research team led by Jihee Yoon of the Advanced Materials Research Division (Korea Institute of Materials Science; KIMS), in collaboration with a team led by Insung Hwang of Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI), has developed Korea's first shape-controlled graphite granule-based dry electrode manufacturing technology capable of producing high-performance batteries without using polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE), a key material in conventional dry-electrode processes.