• Journal of Powder Materials
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.243-248
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• 2009

Carbon-coated Cu nanopowders with core/shell structure have been successfully fabricated by pulsed wire evaporation (PWE) method, in which a mixed gas of Ar/$CH_4$ (10 vol.%) was used as an ambient gas. The characterization of the samples was carried out using x-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM), and high resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM). It was found that the nanoparticles show a spherical morphology with the size ranging of 10-40 nm and are covered with graphite layers of 2-4 nm. When oxygen-passivated Cu nanopowders were annealed under flowing argon gas (600 and 800$^{\circ}C$), the crystallinity of $Cu_2O$ phase and the particle size gradually increased. On the other hand, carbon-coated Cu nanopowders remained similar to as-prepared case with no additional oxide or carbide phases even after the annealing, indicating that the metal nanoparticles are well protected by the carbon-coating layers.

• Journal of Powder Materials
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.110-114
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• 2009

Mechanical coating process was applied to form 89 %-hydrolyzed poly vinyl alcohol (PVA) onto boron carbide ($B_4C$) nanopowder using one step high energy ball mill method. The polymer layer coated on the surface of B4C was changed to glass-like phase. The average particle size of core/shell structured $B_4C$/PVA was about 50 nm. The core/shell structured $B_4C$/PVA was formed by dry milling. However, the hydrolyzed PVA of $98{\sim}99%$ with high glass transition temperature ($T_g$) was rarely coated on the powder. The $T_g$ of polymer materials was one of keys for guest polymer coating on to the host powder by solvent free milling.

• Journal of Powder Materials
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.322-326
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• 2011

Inkjet printing was successfully done using Cu nano powder ink after these Cu nano powders were dry-coated with 1-octanethiol for oxidation prevention. 1-octanethiol, which is Self-Assembled Multi-layers (SAMs), was coated approximately 10-nm thick on the surface of Cu nano powders. 1-Octanol, which has the same chain length as that for 1-octanethiol, was used as a solvent to make the ink for inkjet printing. As a result, the fabricated ink was dispersed for about 4 weeks, and after printing and heat treatment at $350^{\circ}C$ for 4 hours, the resistivity for the printed pattern was measured to be $1.15{\times}10^{-5}{\Omega}{\cdot}cm$.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.412-415
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• 2016

In this study, we fabricated the wearable film-heaters used in thermotherapy for senior citizens and investigated the heat generation characteristics. The wearable film-heaters embedded into eco-flex were constructed with indium tin oxide (ITO) nanoparticles coated on glass fibers. Under a stretching strain of 30%, the wearable film-heaters stably operated with temperature variation of 10%. In addition, the wearable film-heater worn on the wrist increased the temperature of the wrist from $35^{\circ}C$ to $43^{\circ}C$ within 2 min.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.323-330
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• 2009

Efficiency of a fuel cell is determined by the generated water. If water is not removed sufficiently, water will be accumulated at GDL, which causes flooding. Therefore, water control is regarded as a crucial factor to sustain fuel ell performance. In this study, PTFE coating on the surface of carbon paper was carried out to establish optimum process for hydrophobic treatment of GDL. Carbon paper was immersed at different concentrations of nano-sized PTFE coating solution. Their characteristics were analyzed systematically by FE-SEM, water contact angle, cyclic voltamogam, XRD and FT-IR. The quantitative correlation between the amount of coated-PTFE on a carbon paper and concentration of coating solution was carefully investigated. It is suggested that the amount of PTFE-coating on a carbon paper can be managed by means of controling concentration of coating solution.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.113-116
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• 2010

The silica coated $Fe_3O_4$ nanoparticles have been synthesized using a micro-emulsion method. The $Fe_3O_4$ nanoparticles with the sizes 6 nm in diameter were synthesized by thermal decomposition method. Hydrophobic $Fe_3O_4$ nanoparticles were coated silica using surfactant and tetraethyl orthosilicated (TEOS) as a $SiO_2$ precursor. Shell thickness of silica coated $Fe_3O_4$ can be controlled (11~20 nm) through our synthetic conditions. The $Fe_3O_4$ and silica coated $Fe_3O_4$ nano powders were characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM), x-ray diffraction (XRD) and vortex magnetic separation (VMS).

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.17
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• pp.252-255
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• 2004

Various Semiconductor/Metal structured nanowires were synthesized from the simple thermal annealing of ball-milled compound powders and the thermal evaporation of metals. Their structural properties were investigated by Scanning Electron Microscopy(SEM) and Transmission Electron Microscopy(TEM), Energy Dispersive X-ray spectroscopy(EDX). Depending on the type of metals and the material of nanowires, uniform somiconductor/metal nanowires(GaN/Al, GaN/Ag) or isolated metal particles on semiconductor nanowires$(SnO_2/Ti,\;Si/Ti)$ were formed on the surface of nanowires.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.475-480
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• 2015

Ultrasonic atomic force microscopy (Ultrasonic-AFM) has been used to investigate the elastic property of the ultra-thin coating layer in a thin-film system. The modified Hertzian theory was applied to predict the contact resonance frequency through accurate theoretical analysis of the dynamic characteristics of the cantilever. We coat 200 nm thick Aluminum and Titanium thin films on the substrate using the DC Magnetron sputtering method. The amplitude and phase of the contact resonance frequency of a vibrating cantilever varies in response to the local stiffness constant. Ultrasonic-AFM images were obtained using the variations in the elastic property of the materials. The morphology of the surface was clearly observed in the Ultrasonic-AFM images, but was barely visible in the topography. This research demonstrates that Ultrasonic-AFM is a promising technique for visualizing the distribution of local stiffness in the nano-scale thin coatings.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 대한전기학회 2008년도 제39회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1218-1219
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• 2008

Thin films (< 30 nm) of titanium carbide (TiC) are coated on carbon nanotubes (CNTs), which are directly grown on nano-sized ($\sim$ 500 nm in diameter) conical-type tungsten (W) tips, by employing an inductively coupled plasma-chemical vapor deposition (ICP-CVD) technique. Any modification in structural properties (such as length to diameter ratio, crystal quality, and growth behavior) of CNTs due to TiC-coating has been monitored by using high-resolution TEM, field-emission SEM, and Raman spectroscopy. Driving voltage for obtaining the same level of emission current in CNTs-emitter is significantly reduced by TiC-coating. It is also worthy of being noted that the degradation of emission current due to prolonged operation (up to 30 h) is remarkably suppressed by TiC-coating.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 한국재료학회 2010년도 춘계학술발표대회
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• pp.17.1-17.1
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• 2010

2000년대 들어 소재기술의 진보와 함께 혁신적인 성능개선이 이뤄지고 있는 유기박막 태양전지는 가장 신형의 3세대 태양전지로서, 유기 재료의 손쉬운 가공성과 다양성, 낮은 재료비, 그리고 프린팅, 코팅 공정과 같은 값싼 소자 제작공정으로 인해 차세대 저가 태양전지로서 큰 기대를 모으고 있다. 현재 유기박막 태양전지는 단위소자 기준으로 7%대의 광전변환 효율을 달성하고 있는데, 다양한 반도체성 고분자나 단분자 도너 물질에 특히 전자 수용성이 좋은 fullerene(C60)계 억셉터 물질을 채택함으로써 급격히 성능 개선이 이뤄지고 있다. 그러나 상용화를 위해서는 궁극적으로 대면적에서 10% 이상의 성능 수준이 요구되는 바, 유기재료의 낮은 전하 이동도와 짧은 수명을 극복하고 성능을 극대화하기 위해서는 고성능 신규소재의 개발이 필수이다. 태양광 스펙트럼의 장파장 까지 빛흡수가 가능하면서도 광흡수계수가 높은 저밴드갭 도너 물질, 전하 이동도가 획기적으로 개선되고 광 안정성도 높은 신규 소재 개발이 일차적으로 요구되며, 박막 특성 개선과 소자구조의 최적화 등에서도 보다 광범위한 연구개발이 요구되고 있다. 특히 저가의 용액공정에 의한 소자 제작시 박막의 나노-모폴로지 제어는 소자의 성능에 지대한 영향을 미치므로 공정별 한계와 최적조건을 구축하는 것도 매우 긴요하다. 본 발표에서는 당 연구팀을 포함한 국내외 연구그룹들의 최근 유기박막 태양전지 신소재 개발 및 용액공정 기술 현황에 대하여 간략히 살펴보고자 한다.