• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.305-311
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• 2007

Based on the cyclic voltammograms, potentiodynamic polarizations, transient and steady state Tafel plots and electrochemical impedence spectroscopy, we proposed the copper redox mechanism of the corrosion and passivation in artificial sea water. The copper redox mechanism showed the dependence of the concentration of oxygen in artificial sea water and electrode potentials.

• The Science & Technology
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• v.35 no.9 s.400
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• pp.43-72
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• 2002

[수학] 7대 수수께끼 주제당 1백만달러 상금 걸어 리만가설 풀면 통신비밀 완벽 유지 길 터/[물리] 물질 기본 웨이클ㆍ허공의 요동설 신비 우주 팽창 가속ㆍ진공에너지 설도 미궁/[화학] 화학반응 경로와 반응속도 해석 큰 난제 분자집단 평형깨졌을 때 해석도 문제/[생물] 의식ㆍ사고ㆍ상상력ㆍ언어 등 정신능력 신비 신경전달물질 분비 메커니즘 규명 못해/[지구과학] 판구조론ㆍ하와이 화산활동 설명 안돼/[천문우주과학] 새 사실 밝혀질수록 또다른 궁금증 제기/[기상] 지구는 더워지고 있는가 추워지고 있는가 엘니뇨ㆍ오존층 등 기후변화 현상만 겨우 파악/[농학] 진화론 자리매김했지만 의문점 남아

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.57 no.5
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• pp.701-705
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• 2019

Oxygen-evolution reaction (OER) in alkaline media has been considered as a key process for various energy applications. Many types of catalysts have been developed to reduce high overpotential in OER, such as metal alloys, metal oxides, perovskite, or spinel. Nickel oxide (NiO) has high potential to increase OER activity according to volcano plots. The exact mechanisms for OER has not been discovered, but defects such as cation or anion vacancy typically act as an active site for diverse electrochemical reactions. In this study, nitrogen was doped into NiO by using ethylenediamine for formation of Ni vacancy, and the effects of N doping on OER activity and stability was studied.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.31-31
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• 2011

식각, 증착 등의 플라즈마 활용 공정에서 공정 결과들이 예상치 못한 편차를 보이거나 시간에 따른 공정 결과의 드리프트가 발생하는 등의 문제는 공정 수율 향상 뿐 아니라 공정 결과 생산하게 되는 제품의 성능을 결정짓는다는 점에서 중요하다. 그 결과 공정의 이상이 발생 되는 것을 감지하기 위한 다양한 장치 및 알고리즘들이 등장하고 있으나, 현재 공정 상태 변화를 진단하는 것은 공정 장치에서 발생된 신호 변동을 통계적으로 처리하는 수준에 머무르거나 플라즈마 인자들의 값 자체를 진단하는 정도에 그치고 있다. 본 연구에서는, 향후 물리적 해석을 기반으로 한 공정 진단을 위한 알고리즘을 세우는 것을 목표로 하여 공정 결과에 민감하게 영향을 주는 플라즈마 내부 전자의 열평형 상태의 미세한 변동을 감지하고 이를 통하여 공정 결과에 영향을 주게 되는 장치 내 물리적, 화학적 반응들의 변동 메커니즘을 이해하고자 하였다. 외부에서 감지하기 힘들기 때문에 장치 상태에 변동이 없는 것으로 보이지만 실제로는 변동하고 있는 플라즈마의 미세한 상태 변화를 보여줄 수 있는 물리 인자로는 잦은 충돌로 인하여 빠르게 변동에 대응할 수 있는 전자들의 열평형 특성을 살펴보는 것이 적합하다고 판단하여 광신호를 통해 전자 에너지 분포함수를 진단할 수 있는 모델을 수립하였다. 이 모델의 적용 결과를 활용하면 전자들의 열평형이 주변 가스 종의 반응율 변동에 주게 되는 영향을 해석할 수 있다. 실제로 ICP-Oxide Etcher 장치에서 장치 내벽 오염물질 유입 및 공정 부산물의 장치 내 잔여로 인하여 식각율로 표현되는 공정 결과에 최대 6%의 편차가 발생하게 되는 메커니즘을 해석할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.1-12
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• 2019

The reduction of nitrogen to produce ammonia has been attracting much attention as a renewable energy technology. Ammonia is the basis for many fertilizers and is also considered an energy carrier that can power internal combustion engines, diesel engines, gas turbines, and fuel cells. Traditionally, ammonia has been produced through the Haber-Bosch process, in which atmospheric nitrogen combines with hydrogen at high temperature ($350-550^{\circ}C$) and high pressure (150-300 bar). This process consumes 1-2% of current global energy production and relies on fossil fuels as an energy source. Reducing the energy input required for this process will reduce $CO_2$ emissions and the corresponding environmental impact. For this reason, developing electrochemical ammonia-production methods under ambient temperature and pressure conditions should significantly reduce the energy input required to produce ammonia. In this review, we introduce the electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction at ambient condition. Numerical studies on the electrochemical nitrogen reduction mechanism have been carried out through the computation of density function theory. Electrodes such as nanowires and porous electrodes have been also actively studied for further participation in electrochemical reactions.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.125-131
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• 2006

Dimethyl ether (DME) is a new clean fuel as an environmentally-benign energy resource. DME can be manufactured from various energy sources including natural gas, coal, biomass and spent plastic. In addition to its environmentally friendly properties, DME has similar characteristics to those of LPG. Therefore, it is considered as an excellent substitute fuel for LPG, fuel cells, power plant, and especially diesel and is expected to be the alternative fuel by 2010. The experimental study of the direct synthesis of DME was investigated under various conditions over a temperature range of $220{\sim}280^{\circ}C$, syngas ratio 1.2~3.0. All experiments were carried out with a hybrid catalyst, composed of a methanol synthesis catalyst ($Cu/ZnO/Al_2O_3$) and a dehydration catalyst (${\gamma}-Al_2O_3$). The observed reaction rate follows qualitatively a Langmiur-Hinshellwood model as the reaction mechanism. Such a mechanism is considered with three reactions; methanol synthesis, methanol dehydration and water gas shift reaction. From a surface reaction with dissociative adsorption of hydrogen, methanol, and water, individual reaction rate was determined.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.429-434
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• 2000

The rate constants for the hydrolysis of styryldiphossphine oxide(SDPO) were deter-mined by ultraviolet visible spectrophotometric method and rate equation which can be applied over wide pH ranges was obtained. On the basis of pH-rate profile, hydrolysis product analysis, general base catalysis and substituent effect, a plausible hydrolysis mechanism is proposed : Below pH 4.5, the hydrolysis reaction is pro-ceeded by the attack of water to carbocation after protonaticentration of hydroxide ion.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.711-717
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• 2011

Two dimensional simulation results of a capacitively coupled oxygen plasma in a cylindrical reactor geometry are presented. Detailed electron impact reaction rates, which strongly depend on electron energy, are computed from collision cross sections of electrons with $O_2$ and O. Through the coupling of a three moment plasma model with a neutral chemistry/transport model are predicted spatiotemporal distributions of both charged species (electron, $O_2{^+}$, $O^+$, $O_2{^-}$, and $O^-$) and neutral species including ground states ($O_2$ and O) and metastables, known to play important roles in oxygen plasma, such as $O_2(a^1{\Delta}_g)$, $O_2(b^1{{\Sigma}_g}^+)$, $O(^1D)$, and $O(^1S)$. The simulation results clearly verify the existence of a double layer near sheath boundaries in the electronegative plasma.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.50 no.3
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• pp.247-255
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• 2006

The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between concepts on chemical reaction rates and concepts on chemical equilibrium in high school students. The subjects of the investigation consisted of 120 third grade students attending high school in K city of Kyunggi province. For this study, questionnaire relevant to the subject of chemical reaction rates and chemical equilibrium was developed and the answers were analyzed. As a result of the study, a large percentage of high school students answered questions on reaction rates correctly, but only a small percentage of the students could give explanations. Many high school students answered questions on the rates of forward reactions correctly, but not the questions on the rates of reverse reactions. For the concepts on chemical equilibrium, many high school students gave correct answers when faced with equilibrium questions that only required the understanding of one side of the reaction. But the students could not answer the questions requiring understanding of both forward and reverse reactions as well. Overall, there was a little high correlation between concepts on chemical reaction rates and concepts on chemical equilibrium in high school students. Especially, high school students with little understanding of reverse reaction rates did not understand that chemical equilibrium is a dynamic equilibrium. Also, high school students with little understanding of the collision mechanism regarding chemical reaction rates did not understand the effect of concentration and catalyst factors on chemical equilibrium. And the correlation between concepts on chemical reaction rates and concepts on chemical equilibrium related to concentration and catalyst factors was low. In conclusion, the formation of scientific concepts on chemical reactions rates can decrease misconceptions on chemical equilibrium. Also the teaching-learning method limited to one side of a reaction can cause difficulty in forming the concepts on chemical dynamic equilibrium. Therefore, the development of a teaching-learning method which covers both the forward and reverse reactions can be effective in helping students form the concepts on chemical equilibrium.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.74-81
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• 2013

Due to its accuracy and efficiency, reduced kinetic mechanism of diesel surrogate is widely used as fuel model when applying 3-D diesel engine simulation. But for the well-developed prediction of diesel surrogate reduced kinetic mechanism, it is important to know some meaningful factors which affect to ignition delay time. Meanwhile, ignition delay time consists of two parts. One is the chemical ignition delay time related with the chemical reaction, and the other is the physical ignition delay time which is affected by physical behavior of the fuel droplet. Especially for chemical ignition delay time, chemical properties of each fuel were studied for a long time, but researches on their mixtures have not been done widely. So it is necessary to understand the chemical characteristics of their mixtures for more precise and detailed modeling of surrogate diesel oil. And it shows same ignition trend of paraffin mixture with those of single component, and shorter ignition delay at low/high initial temperature when mixing paraffin and toluene.