• Clean Technology
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.210-217
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• 2022

Boron(B) is a rare resource used for various purposes such as glass, semiconductor materials, gunpowder, rocket fuel, etc. However, Korea depends entirely on imports for boron. Considering the global boron reserves and its current production rate, boron will be depleted on earth in 50 years. Thus, a process including proper adsorbent materials recovering boron from seawater is demanded. This research proposed carbonized nanofibers prepared from electrospun PAN(polyacrylonitrile) mats as promising materials to adsorb boron in aqueous solution. First, the mechanism of boron adsorption on carbonized nanofibers was investigated by DFT(density functional method)-based molecular modeling and the calculated energetics demonstrated that the boron chemisorption on the nitrogen-doped graphene surface by a two-step dehydration is possible with viable activation energies. Then, the electrospun PAN mats were stabilized in air and then carbonized in an argon atmosphere before being immersed in the boric acid aqueous solution. Analytically, SEM(scanning electron microscopy) and Raman measurements were employed to confirm whether the electrospinning and carbonization of PAN mats proceeded successfully. Then, XPS(X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy) peak analysis showed whether the intended nitrogen-doped carbon nanofiber surface was formed and boron was properly adsorbed on nanofibers. Those results demonstrated that the carbonized nanofibers prepared from electrospun PAN mats could be feasible adsorbents for boron recovery in seawater.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.08a
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• pp.299.1-299.1
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• 2013

넓은 표면적을 갖는 탄소나노튜브(CNT)는 기체 분자의 흡착 성능이 기존의 다른 흡착제에 비해 우수한 것으로 알려져 있으나, CNT의 물리/화학적 성질은 튜브의 직경과 기하 구조에 의해 큰 차이를 나타내며 정제가 매우 까다롭다는 단점을 가지고 있다. CNT와 외형적으로 매우 흡사한 질화붕소 나노튜브(BNNT)의 경우, 구조와 직경에 상관없이 열적, 화학적 안정성이 우수하여 $CO_2$를 비롯한 다른 공해 물질들의 제거제나 흡착제로서 응용 가능성이 매우 높다. 본 연구진은, BN-결함을 도입한 BNNT 벽면에서의 $CO_2$ 흡착 반응과 $CO_2$를 에너지 물질인 HCOOH와 $H_2CO_3$로 전환하는 반응에 대한 양자화학 이론 계산 연구를 수행하였다. 그 결과, $CO_2$에 대한 $B_N$-BNNT 흡착 성능이 튜브의 직경에 상관없이 매우 우수하였고, $B_N$-BNNT 벽면상에 흡착된 $CO_2$가 물 분자와 반응할 경우 HCOOH와 $H_2CO_3$로의 전환반응이 효과적으로 진행되었다. 이러한 이론 계산 연구 결과는 BN-BNNT가 $CO_2$ 흡착제 및 에너지 전환 촉매로의 응용 가능성을 훌륭히 제시하고 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.534-538
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• 1991

A procedure for spectrophotometric determination of traces of boron in high-purity trichlorosilane (TCS) is proposed utilizing an adsorptive separation. NaCl is chosen as an Lewis base adsorbent which forms a complex with boron compounds in TCS, and is well dissolved in sulfuric acid-quinalizarin color-forming agent without causing an interference in colorimetric measurements. The proposed adsorptive separation method is free from the formation of silica gel and gas bubbles during the analysis of TCS. The method reveals that the boron concentration in a semiconductor grade TCS is 6.1 ${\mu}$g/l within the standard deviation of ${\pm}$20%. On the other hand, the boron concentration of the purified TCS which is separated from NaCl-boron compounds complex is reduced to 0.2 ${\mu}$g/l, showing the efficient applicability of NaCl to the adsorptive separation. The effectiveness of NaCl for the removal of boron in TCS purification is also described in comparison with other well-known adsorbents.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1997.05b
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• pp.86-91
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• 1997

지르칼로이는 피복관으로 우수한 성질을 갖고있으나 고온에서 수증기와 발열반응을 일으켜 원자로의 안전성을 떨어뜨리는 단점을 가지고 있다. 사고시 1차 계통수에 함유된 수산화 리튬이니 붕소산은 지르칼로이에 흡착되어 산화에 영향을 줄 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 고온 수증기중의 지르칼로이 산화의 정확한 기술에 대한 연구를 수행하였으며 흡착물의 영향에 대한 실험을 수행하였다. 지르코늄 산화막이 단사정으로 존재하는 온도구간($650^{\circ}C$-105$0^{\circ}C$)에서 지르칼로이의 기존의 자료를 기반으로 계산 모형을 설정하였고 계산결과 Baker-just의 실험식은 상당히 보수적임을 알 수 있었다. 수산화리튬이 흡착된 시편은 1기압 고온 수증기중에서 산화시 푸른 간섭무늬의 막이 생성되어 산화가 억제되었다. 붕소산과 리튬의 혼합용액을 흡착한 시편은 푸른 간섭무늬의 막이 생성되지 않았으며 아무것도 흡착하지 않은 시편과 산화속도가 거의 같았다 고온 산화에서 열충격은 산화막의 균열을 발생하게 하여 산화가 가속되게 하고 지르칼로이의 기억효과를 상실케 한다.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.3-10
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• 2016

A lot of researches have been carried out on the recovery of resources from the seawater all over the world. The boron concentration in seawater is low about at 4.5ppm, but considering the volume of seawater, the total weight of dissolved boron amounts to about 5.4 trillion tons. The boron is an essential resource in about 300 kinds of industries. Korea has imported all of the boron and spent more than 700 billion won each year. In this article, we introduce the domestic and international research trends and technologies for removing or recovering the boron from wastewater and seawater. Most of the researches have been conducted to remove the boron from the desalination process, and to recover the boron mainly from wastewater and brine. The technique for the recovery of the dissolved boron includes the ion exchange, which is the most representative, the adsorption membrane filtration (AMF), solvent extraction, and so on.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.45-49
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• 2006

In this study, it was investigated on the boron separation ken synthetically prepared seawater. ion exchange resin used in the experiments was Amberlite IRA 743, containing glucamine functional group. The experiments were carried out as a function of the conditions of the pH, boron initial concentration and temperature of seawater in a batch reactor. As a result, optimum conditions for boron adsorption were at pH 8.5 and 313 K, respectively. The adsorption rate was increased very fast with increasing the temperature, but decreased with increasing the initial concentration of boron. Also, the kinetics for boron adsorption applied the pseudo-second order model, as follows: $$\frac{X}{1-X}=780[C_0]^{-1.65}t^{1.48}\;exp\;({-\frac{17883}{RT}}\)\;;\;pH8.5$$

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.451-459
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• 2001

Fabric ion-exchanger, aminated PP-g-styrene was synthesized with styrene monomer onto PP staple fiber by pre-irradiational grafting with E-beam and subsequent chloromethylation and amination. Degree of grafting was increased with increasing the styrene monomer concentration and the highest degree of grafting was obtained 118% at a monomer concentration of 80% styrene. Optimum condition of Mohr's salt and sulphuric acid were 1.0 ${\times}\;10^{-3}$ M and 0.1 M. Amount of amination was increased with increasing degree of grafting. Swelling ratio of aminated PP-g styrene was higher than that of trunk polymer. Ion-exchange capacity was 6.7 meq/g, which was three times greater than commercial ion-exchanger. Optimum condition of baron ion adsorption was pH 4 and amount of adsorption were increased with increasing the amount of amination.

• Composites Research
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.247-253
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• 2017

In this study, the mechanical behavior and interface properties of boron nitride nanotube-poly(methyl methacrylate) nanocomposites are predicted using the molecular dynamics simulations and the double inclusion model. After modeling nanocomposite unit cell embedding single-walled nanotube and polymer, the stiffness matrix is determined from uniaxial tension and shear tests. Through the orientation average of the transversely isotropic stiffness matrix, the effective isotropic elastic constants of randomly dispersed microstructure of nanocomposites. Compared with the double inclusion model solution with a perfect interfacial condition, it is found that the interface between boron nitride nanotube and polymer matrix is weak in nature. To characterize the interphase surrounding the nanotube, the two step domain decomposition method incorporating a linear spring model at the interface is adopted. As a result, various combinations of the interfacial compliance and the interphase elastic constants are successfully determined from an inverse analysis.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.265-269
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• 2016

Ammonia gas as a hydrogen source has received great attention since the importance of hydrogen gas as a clean energy source increased. However, ammonia is toxic and corrosive to metal such that the absorbent that can store and transport ammonia became an important issue. As an effort to solve this, a large pored covalent organic framework, COF-10 was proposed as an adsorbent for storage and safe transportation of ammonia. During the ammonia adsorption process, boron in COF-10 structure can act as a Lewis acid site and bind with ammonia. In this study, COF was synthesized and its structure was identified by BET, XRD and FT-IR. The adsorption characteristics of COF were investigated by TPD and adsorption isotherm. The COF-10 showed an excellent adsorption capacity for ammonia (9.79 mmol/g) which could be utilized as an ammonia adsorbent.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.61 no.1
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• pp.16-24
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• 2017

The adsorption of various atmospheric harmful gases ($CO_x$, $NO_x$, $SO_x$) on graphene-like boron nitride(BN) and aluminum nitride(AlN) sheets was theoretically investigated using density functional theory (DFT) and MP2 methods. The structures were fully optimized at the $B3LYP/6-31G^{**}$ and $CAM-B3LYP/6-31G^{**}$ levels of theory and confirmed to be a local minimum by the calculation of the harmonic vibrational frequencies. The MP2 single-point binding energies were computed at the $CAM-B3LYP/6-31G^{**}$ optimized geometries. Also the zero-point vibrational energy (ZPVE) and 50%-basis set superposition error (BSSE) corrections were included. The adsorptions of gases on the BN sheet were predicted to be a physisorption process and the adsorptions of gases on the AlN sheet were predicted to be a physisorption process for $CO_x$ and $NO_x$ but to be a chemisorption process for $SO_x$.