Professor Lee Yong-jae’s Research Team Publishes in Angewandte Chemie A research study which found that pressure can generate a groundbreaking improvement in the ion exchange function of Zeolite has been published in the international edition of Angewandte Chemie (IF = 12.73). The study was conducted by Professor Lee Yong-jae’s research team in the Department of Earth System Sciences. Funded by the Global Research Lab Project and the Nuclear Technology Development Project, the study’s co-authors include three doctoral students, Lee Yong-mun, Sung Dong-hun, and Lim Jun-hyuk, as well as two undergraduate students, Hwang Hui-jeong and Kim Tae-hyun. For the past two years, Professor Lee’s research team had employed small pressure devices that use diamonds for anvil, and conventional oil-hydraulic presses, along with radiation accelerators from international and domestic sources as well as other analytical equipment from the Department of Earth System Sciences. The research produced a Eu3+ Cation replacement, a process that does not occur in normal condition, with Zeolite Natrolite which shows a unique expansion phenomenon of the pupil that is less than a nanometer under the condition of tens of thousands the amount of atmospheric pressure. The study identified an atomic unit-mechanism that transforms this into a condition of normal pressure and stores the contracted pupil interior. The implications of the findings are substantial due to the features of Europium, which in turn demonstrate the possibility of new technology development with high pressure.