• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.186-193
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• 2015

Background Polyurethane coating of breast implants has been shown to reduce capsular contracture in short-term follow-up studies. This 30-year study is the longest examination of the use of polyurethane-coated implants and their correlation with capsular contracture. Methods This study evaluates the senior surgeon's (F.D.P.) experience with the use of polyurethane-coated implants in aesthetic breast augmentation in 382 patients over 30 years. Follow-up evaluations were conducted for six months after surgery. After the six-month follow-up period, 76 patients returned for reoperation. The gross findings, histology, and associated capsular contracture were noted at the time of explantation. Results No patient during the six-month follow-up period demonstrated capsular contracture. For those who underwent reoperation for capsular contracture, Baker II/III contractures were noted nine to 10 years after surgery and Baker IV contractures were noted 12 to 21 years after surgery. None of the explanted implants had macroscopic evidence of polyurethane, which was only found during the first five years after surgery. The microscopic presence of polyurethane was noted in all capsules up to 30 years after the original operation. Conclusions An inverse correlation was found between the amount of polyurethane coating on the implant and the occurrence of capsular contracture. Increasingly severe capsular contracture was associated with a decreased amount of polyurethane coating on the surface of the implants. No contracture occurred in patients whose implants showed incomplete biodegradation of polyurethane, as indicated by the visible presence of polyurethane coating. We recommend research to find a non-toxic, non-biodegradable synthetic material as an alternative to polyurethane.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.75-81
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• 1999

본 실험에서 얻어진 결론을 요약하면 아래와 같다. (1) 저진공도의 sputter coater를 이용하여 Au 내부 표준시편을 제작하는 최적 조건은 9mA의 전류로 100 초간 coating하는 것이다. (2) 고진공도의 evaporation coater를 이용하여 Al 내부 표준시편을 제작하는 최적 조건은 7kV의 전압으로 10분간 coating하는 것이다. (3) Au 내부 표준시편을 이용하여 측정한 홍주석 격자상수 값의 측정오차는 정밀도가 1.2% 이하이고, 정확도는 0.3% 이하이다. (4) Au 내부 표준시편을 이용하여 측정한 알바이트 장석 격자상수 값의 측정오차는 정밀도가 0.5% 이하이고, 정확도는 1.1% 이하이다. (5) 내부 표준시편을 사용하여 격자상수를 측정할 때 가장 심각한 오차는 전자회절도형의 거리 및 각도 측정시 발생한다. 체계적인 측정 방법과 정밀도 높은 측정 도구의 사용이 필요하다. (6) 시료나 TEM 조건 때문에 분말 XRD 방법이나 수렴성빔 전자회절법으로 격자상수를 구할 수 없는 경우에는 내부 표준시편을 이용한 TEM 격자상수 측정법이 좋은 대안이 된다.

• Elastomers and Composites
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.71-76
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• 2004

폴리우레탄 탄성체의 가교제로 널리 사용되고 있는 4,4'-methylenebis(2-chloroaniline)(MOCA)는 현재 독성이 높은 물질로 분류되어 있기 때문에 머지않아 사용이 제한될 전망이다. 본 연구에서는 MOCA와 유사한 구조를 가지는 1,3-propanediolbis(4-aminobenzoate)(PDBA)를 대체 가교제로 사용하여 폴리우레탄 코팅을 제조하고 물성을 조사하였다. MOCA와 PDBA를 polyoxypropylene($M_n$=2000)에 녹이고 각종 첨가제를 혼합하여 주제부를 제조하였다. 경화제로는 NCO-terminated toluene diisocyanate prepolymer를 사용하였으며, 주제와 경화제를 실온에서 혼합하여 폴리우레탄 코팅 필름을 제조하였다. PDBA을 이용하여 제조한 폴리우레탄 코팅에서는 MOCA를 이용한 경우에 비해 초기점도가 높았고 낮은 반응성으로 인하여 가사시간도 더 길게 나타났다. 또한 인장강도와 인열강도는 MOCA를 사용할 때에 비하여 매우 낮게 측정되었다. 그러나 촉매(Pb-octoate)량을 증가시키면 PDBA의 반응성 향상으로 인하여, 건조시간, 인장강도, 신율 및 인열강도 등의 특성이 MOCA를 사용하여 제조할 때와 유사하게 나타났다. 따라서 촉매 첨가량을 증가시키거나 다른 적당한 촉매를 사용함으로써, PDBA의 반응성을 향상시킨다면, PDBA는 폴리우레탄 코팅의 제조에 있어서 MOCA를 대체할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.255-263
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• 2007

Indoor air quality is the dominant contributor to total personal exposure because most people spend a majority of their time indoors. The purposes of this study were to evaluate the alternative method for improvement of indoor air quality in house after coating titanium dioxide ($TiO_2$) photocatalyst for interior part of the house using nitrogen dioxide ($NO_2$) multiple measurements. To evaluate the alternative method in indoor environment, daily indoor and outdoor $NO_2$ concentrations of an apartment and a detached house were daily measured for consecutive 21 days in winter and summer, respectively, Another daily 21 measurements were carried out after $TiO_2$ coating on wall paper of interior part in houses. All $NO_2$ concentrations were measured by passive filter badges. Indoor air quality models using mass balance are useful tool to quantify the relationship between indoor air pollution levels, ambient concentrations, and explanatory variables. Using a mass balance model and linear regression analysis, penetration factor (ventilation rate divided by sum of ventilation rate and decay rate) and source strength factor (emission rate divided by sum of ventilation rate and decay rate) were calculated. Subsequently, the decay constants were estimated. In this study. magnitude of improvement of indoor air quality could be evaluated by decay constant.

• 한국윤활학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국윤활학회 2002년도 proceedings of the second asia international conference on tribology
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• pp.227-228
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• 2002

One of the serious challenges in developing rotary compressor with HFC refrigerant is the prediction of scuffing times and wear amounts between vane and roller surface. In this study, the tribological characteristics of sliding surfaces using roller-vane geometry of rotary compressor were investigated. The sliding tests were carried out under various sliding speeds, normal loads and surface roughness. During the tests, friction force, wear scar width, time to failure, surface temperature, and surface roughness were monitored. Because severe wear was occurred on vane surface, TiN coating was applied on sliding surfaces to prolong the wear-life of vane-roller interfaces. From the sliding tests, it was found that there was the optimum initial surface roughness to break in and to prolong the wear life of sliding surfaces. Depending on load and speed, the protective layers, which were composed of metallic oxide and organic compound, were formed on sliding surfaces. Those would play an important role in the amount of friction and wear between roller and vane surfaces.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.276-283
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• 2020

Alcohol-based solvents including ethanol (EtOH) and tert-butyl alcohol (TBA) are investigated instead of isopropanol (IPA), which is a common solvent for polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), as an alternative solvent for preparing the catalyst slurry with PTFE binder. As a result, the performance at 0.2 A/㎠ from the single cells from using catalyst slurries based on EtOH and TBA showed very similar value to that from the slurry using IPA, which implies the EtOH and TBA can be used as a solvent for the catalyst slurry. It is also confirmed by the very close values of the total resistance of the membrane electrode assemblies from the slurries using different solvents. In the energy dispersive spectrometry (EDS) image, the shape of crack and dispersion of PTFE are changed according to the vapor pressure of the solvent.

• Corrosion Science and Technology
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.295-303
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• 2013

Silane surface treatments have been developed as an alternative for toxic and carcinogenic chromate-based treatments for years. It is consistently observed that ultra-thin films offer excellent corrosion protection as well as paint adhesion to metals. The silane performance is comparable to, or in some cases better than, that of chromate layers. Based on the tetra-ethylorthosilicate(TEOS) and methlyl trieethoxysilane(MTES), inorganic sol was synthesized and formed hybrid networks with $SiO_2$ nano particle and polypropylene glycol(PPG) on Zn alloyed steel surface. According to SST results, addition of 10nm and 50nm $SiO_2$ nanoparticle in synthesized solution improved anti-corrosion property by its shear stress relaxation effect during curing process. Also, SST results were shown that anti-corrosive property was affected by the amounts of organic compounds.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.21
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• pp.45-45
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• 2008

In recent years, new materials and technology has been developed using single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) as an alternative to indium tin oxide (ITO) to fulfil the requirements towards novel technological drive. These technologies offer products having a broad range of conductivity, excellent transparency, neutral color tone, good adhesion, abrasion resistance as well as mechanical robustness. In addition, SWCNTs can be solution processed to replace the sophisticated vacuum techniques at high temperatures. In the present work, transparent conducting films were fabricated from the purified SWCNTs. Dispersion of purified SWCNTs was accomplished in 1,2-dichlorobenzene without using surfactants or polymers following ultrasonic process. We achieved coating of nanotubes film on poly ether suiphone (PES) for an average sheet resistance ~110 ${\Omega}/{\Box}$ of optical transmittance 80% at 550 nm. Conventional spin coating method was followed to fabricate films from the purified and dispersed nanotubes solution. The results will be presented.

• Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.361-367
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• 2020

Recently, layered nickel-rich cathode materials (NCM) have attracted considerable attention as advanced alternative cathode materials for use in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, their inferior surface stability that gives rise to rapid fading of cycling performance is a significant drawback. This paper proposes a simple and convenient coating method that improves the surface stability of NCM using sulfate-based solvents that create artificial cathode-electrolyte interphases (CEI) on the NCM surface. SO_x-based artificial CEI layer is successfully coated on the surface of the NCM through a wet-coating process that uses dimethyl sulfone (DMS) and dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) as liquid precursors. It is found that the SO_x-based artificial CEI layer is well developed on the surface of NCM with a thickness of a few nanometers, and it does not degrade the layered structure of NCM. In cycling performance tests, cells with DMS- or DMSO-modified NCM811 cathodes exhibited improved specific capacity retention at room temperature as well as at high temperature (DMS-NCM811: 99.4%, DMSO-NCM811: 88.6%, and NCM811: 78.4%), as the SO_x-based artificial CEI layer effectively suppresses undesired surface reactions such as electrolyte decomposition.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.337-342
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• 2004

One of the serious challenges in developing rotary compressor with HFC refrigerant is the prediction of scuffing times and wear amounts between vane and roller surfaces. In this study, the tribological characteristics of sliding surfaces using vane-roller geometry of rotary compressor were investigated. The sliding tests were carried out under various sliding speeds, normal loads and surface roughness. During the test, friction force, wear depth, time to failure and surface temperature were monitored. Because severe wear occurred on vane surface, TiN coating was applied on sliding surfaces to prolong the wear life of vane-roller interfaces. From the sliding test it was found that there was the optimum initial surface roughness to break in and to prolong the wear life of sliding surfaces. Depending on the load and speed, the protective layers, which were composed of metallic oxide and organic compound, were formed on sliding surfaces. Those would play an important role in the amounts of friction and wear between roller and vane surfaces.