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Accelerating the shift from fossil fuels to new and renewable energy sources is in line with the Korean government’s recent attempts to meet the aim of “going carbon neutral by 2050.” In this regard, the collaborative research team comprising professors Min-sung Kim and Dong-kyu Kim of Chung-Ang University and Principal Researcher Young Kim of the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM), an organization under the purview of the Ministry of Science and ICT, has effectively developed an environmentally friendly refrigerant compressor by employing an electrochemical technique as opposed to a mechanical one.