• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제55권5호
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• pp.510-514
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• 2018

Colloidal semiconductor quantum dots (QDs), because of the novel optical and electrical properties that stem from their three-dimensional confinement, have attracted great interest for their potential applications in such fields as bio-imaging, display, and opto-electronics. However, many semiconductors that can be exploited for QD applications contain toxic elements. Herein, we synthesized non-toxic ZnTe/ZnSe (core/shell) type-II QDs by pyrolysis method. Because of the unique type-II character of these QDs, their emission can range over an extended wavelength regime, showing photoluminescence (PL) from 450 nm to 580 nm. By optimizing the ZnSe shell growth condition, resulting ZnTe/ZnSe type-II QDs shows PL quantum yield up to ~ 25% with 35 nm PL bandwidth. Using a simple two step cation exchange reaction, we also fabricated ZnTe/ZnSe type-II QDs with absorption extended over the whole visible region. The visible-light sensitized heavy metal free ZnTe/ZnSe type-II QDs can be relevant for opto-electronic applications such as displays, light emitting diodes, and bio-imaging probes.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.354-361
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• 2019

Renewable energy from biomass and biodegradable wastes can significantly supplement the global energy demand if properly harnessed. Pyrolysis is the most profound modern technique that has proved effective and efficient in the energy conversion of biomass to yield various products like bio-oil, biochar, and syngas. This study focuses on optimization of slow pyrolysis of banana peels waste to yield banana peels vinegar, tar and biochar as bio-infrastructure products. Response surface methodology using central composite design was used to determine the optimum conditions for the banana wastes using a batch reactor pyrolysis system. Three factors namely heating temperature ($350-550^{\circ}C$), sample mass (200-800 g) and residence time (45-90 min) were varied with a total of 20 individual experiments. The optimal conditions for wood vinegar yield (48.01%) were $362.6^{\circ}C$, 989.9 g and 104.2 min for peels and biochar yield (30.10%) were $585.9^{\circ}C$, 989.9 g and 104.2 min. The slow pyrolysis showed significant energy conversion efficiencies of about 90% at p-value ${\leq}0.05$. These research findings are of primary importance to Uganda considering the abundant banana wastes amounting to 17.5 million tonnes generated annually, thus using them as pyrolysis feedstock can boost the country's energy status.

• Plant Biotechnology Reports
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.127-134
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• 2011

The biotransformation potential of cell suspension cultures generated from Withania somnifera leaf was investigated, using withanolides, i.e. withanolide A, withaferin A, and withanone as precursor substrates. Interestingly, the cell suspension cultures showed inter-conversion of withanolides, as well converted to some unknown compounds, released to the culture media. The bio-catalyzed withanolide was detected and quantified by TLC and HPLC, respectively. There is noticeable conversion of withanolide A to withanone, and vice versa though at a lower level. The type of reaction of this biotransformation appears to be substitution of 20-OH group to 17-OH in withanolide A. In this paper, we present for the first time the possibility of biotransformation by inter-conversion of withanolides of pharmacological importance through cell suspension culture of W. somnifera. The possible role of putative cytochrome $P_{450}$ hydroxylases is implicated in the conversion.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.453-465
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 바이오매스로부터 급속열분해를 통해 난방용, 발전용 및 수송용 연료로 사용하기 위해 바이오오일을 생산하는 기술개발 현황을 나타내었다. 바이오매스를 작은 규모의 액체연료로 전환하기 위해 가장 효율적인 방법 중 하나는 급속열분해이다. 급속열분해를 통한 바이오오일은 $450^{\circ}C{\sim}600^{\circ}C$ 온도에서 바이오매스가 신속히 열분해 되어 증기 급냉를 위해 외부 산소가 없는 조건에서 생산된다. 이 바이오오일은 최초 건조 바이오매스 기준 최대 75 무게%까지 생산할 수 있지만, 일반적으로 60-75 무게% 수준이 적합하다. 본 연구에서는 바이오매스의 원료특성, 바이오오일 생산원리, 바이오오일의 특성 및 활용분야에 대한 최근의 개발현황을 살펴보았다.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.159-164
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• 1996

폐식용유와 알코올의 에스테르화 반응에 의한 바이오 디젤유 제조 실험을 하였다. 실험 조건은 폐식용유 대 얄코올의 흔합 몰비0:3, 1:5, 1:7), 촉매 의 양(0.5, 1.0, 1.5wt.% , 촉매종류(sodium meth-oxide, NaOH, KOH), 반응온도(30, 45, $50^{\circ}C$), 알코올 종류(메탄올, 에탄올, 부탄올) 등이다. 폐식용유 대 알코올 혼합 몰비가 증가하면 할수록 전환율 은 증가하였고, sodium methoxide, NaOH, KOH 촉매 종류의 영향은 크지 않았다. 반응 온도(30, 45, $50^{\circ}C$), 의 영향에서 반응 온도가 증가할수록 전환율은 증가하였고, 메탄융,에탄융,부탄올 중 메탄올 사용시 전환율이 가장 높았다. 에스테르반응 후 경 유와 물성을 비교하여 보면 점도가 다소 높게 나타 났으나,전체적무로 폐식용유의 물성이 개선되어 연료로서의 사용성이 개선되었다.

• Journal of Ceramic Processing Research
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.158-163
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• 2019

Er3+/Yb3+-codoped NaLa(MoO4)2 colloidal nanocrystals were synthesized by pulsed laser ablations in de-ionized water and sodium dodecyl sulfate (NaC12H25SO4, SDS) aqueous solution for up-conversion (UC) luminescence bio-labeling applications. The influences of the SDS molecules on the crystallinities, crystal morphologies, crystallite sizes, and UC luminescence properties of the prepared Er3+/Yb3+-codoped NaLa(MoO4)2 colloidal nanocrystals were investigated in detail. Under a 980-nm excitation, the Er3+/Yb3+-codoped nanocolloidal NaLa(MoO4)2 suspension exhibited a weak red emission near 670 nm and strong green UC emissions at 530 and 550 nm, corresponding to the intra 4f transitions of Er3+ (4F9/2, 2H11/2, 4S3/2) → Er3+ (4I15/2). When the SDS solution was used, a smaller average crystallite size, narrower size distribution, and enhanced UC luminescence were observed. These characteristics were attributed to the amphoteric SDS molecules attached to the positively charged Er3+/Yb3+-codoped NaLa(MoO4)2 colloidal nanocrystals, effectively occupying the oxygen defect on their surfaces. The Er3+/Yb3+-codoped nanocrystalline NaLa(MoO4)2 suspension prepared in the SDS solution exhibited a remarkably strong green emission visible to the naked eyes.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.30-39
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• 2017

This study was performed to produce succinic acid from biomass by developing mutants of Cellulomonas flavigena in which the succinate dehydrogenase gene (sdh) is deleted. For development of succinate producing mutants, the upstream and downstream regions of sdh gene from C. flavigena and antibiotic resistance gene (neo, bla) were inserted into pKC1139, and the recombinant plasmids were transformed into Escherichia coli ET12567/pUZ8002 which is a donor strain for conjugation. C. flavigena was conjugated with the transformed E. coli ET12567/pUZ8002 to induce the deletion of sdh in chromosome of this bacteria by double-crossover recombination. Two mutants (C. flavigena H-1 and H-2), in which sdh gene was deleted in the chromosome, were constructed and confirmed by PCR. To estimate the production of succinic acid by the two mutants when the culture broth was fermented with biomass such as CMC, xylan, locust gum, and rapeseed straw; the culture broth was analyzed by HPLC analysis. The succinic acid in the culture broth was not detected as a fermentation products of all biomass. One of the reasons for this may be the conversion of succinic acid to fumaric acid by sdh genes (Cfla_1014 - Cfla_1017 or Cfla_1916 - Cfla_1918) which remained in the chromosomal DNA of C. flavigena H-1 and H-2. The other reason could be the conversion of succinyl-CoA to other metabolites by enzymes related to the bypass pathway of TCA cycle.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제27권5호
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• pp.554-561
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• 2016

Depending on the Bio-gas sources, main component gases of $CH_4$ and $CO_2$ are shown to be variously present in amounts. For the anaerobic digester, The concentration of $CH_4$ and $CO_2$ in the gases are 60~70 and 30~35 vol%. For the landfill gas, $CH_4$ and $CO_2$ are 40~60 and 40~60 vol%. For the food wastes, $CH_4$ and $CO_2$ are 60~80 and 20~40 vol%, respectively. In this study, maximum conversion rates of $CO_2$ were obtained from the variety of concentrations of $CH_4$ and $CO_2$ by the catalysts of reforming reactions. Moreover, in order to get maximum producing amount of synthetic gas, experimental studies were performed to optimize the reaction variables. On the basis of $CH_4$, 243 ml, R [$CH_4/(O2+CO_2)$] value were varied from 0.8 to 1.35, in the study of $CH_4$ and $CO_2$ reforming reactions. It was shown that the optimal results were obtained for 1.35 of R value. And also, at $850^{\circ}C$ and 1 atm, the production rate of synthetic gas was 90% and the conversion rates of $CH_4$ and $CO_2$ were higher than 99% and 90%, respectively.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.358-363
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• 1993

박하(Mentha piperita) 세포현탁배양에(-)-menthol 생합성 중간체를 투여하여 배양된 세포의 대사경로를 연구하였다. (-)-Limonene을 투여 하였을 때 이는 다른 대사물로 변환되지 않는 것으로 관찰 되었다. (+)-Pulegone은 (+)-isomenthone 및 (-)-menthone으로 변환되었으며, (-)-menthone은 (-)-menthol로 변환되었다. 이 실험은 현탁배양세포가 대부분의 생합성 활성을 유지하고 있으며 (-)-limonene hydroxylase의 활성이 제한적임을 보여 주었다. (-)-Isopiperitenone을 투여하였을 때는 (+)-pulegone, piperitenone, (-)-7-hydroxyisopiperitenone, (R)- 및 (S)-6-hydroxyisopiperitenone이 생성되었다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.559-563
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• 2001

The effects of feeding a mannan oligosaccharide (Bio-Mos) from 0 to 3 g/kg diet and vaccination program on 1- to 35-day performance (growth and feed efficiency), metabolizable energy, nitrogen utilization and carcass composition of meat chickens were investigated. A general vaccination program was used against IB, IBD and ND with half of the birds per diet receiving a booster dose of IB and ND vaccines at 12 days of age. Dietary supplementation of Bio-Mos (BM) did not influence body weight gain, feed efficiency and nutrient utilization. The highest dietary BM (3 versus 1.5 or 0 g/kg) increased carcass abdominal fat and reduced the proportion of drumstick in the carcass of meat chickens. The booster dose reduced the performance of birds. It was concluded that the addition of BM to the diet of chickens did not significantly influence the performance and nutrient utilization of meat chickens.