Original Article
  • Trends and Perspective for Eco-friendly Composites for Next-generation Automobiles

  • Eunyoung Oh*, Marcela María Godoy Zúniga**, Jonghwan Suhr*,**†

  • * Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea
    ** Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea

  • 차세대 자동차용 친환경 복합재료의 동향 및 전망

  • 오은영* · Marcela María Godoy Zúniga** · 서종환*,**†

  • This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  • Jonghwan Suhr

  • * Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea
    ** Department of Polymer Science & Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, Korea

  • E-mail: suhr@skku.edu