• Title/Summary/Keyword: Bio-nano

Search Result 871, Processing Time 0.046 seconds

A New Composition of Nanosized Silica-Silver for Control of Various Plant Diseases

  • Park Hae-Jun;Kim Sung-Ho;Kim Hwa-Jung;Choi Seong-Ho
    • The Plant Pathology Journal
    • /
    • v.22 no.3
    • /
    • pp.295-302
    • /
    • 2006
  • The present study addressed the efficacy of nanosized silica-silver for controlling plant pathogenic microorganisms. The nanosized silica-silver consisted of nano-silver combined with silica molecules and water soluble polymer, prepared by exposing a solution including silver salt, silicate and water soluble polymer to radioactive rays. The nanosized silica-silver showed antifungal activity against the tested phytopathogenic fungi at 3.0 ppm with varied degrees. In contrast, a number of beneficial bacteria or plant pathogenic bacteria were not significantly affected at 10 ppm level but completely inhibited by 100 ppm of nanosized silicasilver. Among the tested plant pathogenic fungi, the new product effectively controlled powdery mildews of pumpkin at 0.3 ppm in both field and greenhouse tests. The pathogens disappeared from the infected leaves 3 days after spray and the plants remained healthy thereafter. Our results suggested that the product developed in this study was effective in controlling various plant fungal diseases.

EXPERIMENTS FOR VALIDATING NUMERICAL ANALYSIS USING ADVANCED FLOW VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES (첨단 유동가시화 기술을 이용한 수치해석 검증용 실험)

  • Lee, S.J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
    • /
    • 2008.03a
    • /
    • pp.14-17
    • /
    • 2008
  • Recently, several advanced flow visualization techniques such as Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) including stereo PIV, holographic PIV, and dynamic PIV have been developed. These advanced techniques have strong potential as the experimental technology which can be used for verifying numerical simulation. In addition, there would be indispensable in solving complicated thermo-fluid flow problems not only in the industrial fields such as automotive, space, electronics, aero- and hydro-dynamics, steel, and information engineering, but also in the basic research fields of medical science, bio-medical engineering, environmental and energy engineering etc. Especially, NT Nano Technology) and BT (Bio Technology) strongly demand these advanced measurement techniques, because it is difficult for conventional methods to observe most complicated nano- and bio-fluidic phenomena. In this paper, the basic principle of these advanced visualization techniques and their practical applications which cannot be resolved by conventional methods, such as flow in automotive HVAC system, ship and propeller wake, three-dimensional flow measurement in micro-conduits, and flow around a circulating cylinder will be introduced.

  • PDF

EXPERIMENTS FOR VALIDATING NUMERICAL ANALYSIS USING ADVANCED FLOW VISUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES (첨단 유동가시화 기술을 이용한 수치해석 검증용 실험)

  • Lee, S.J.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
    • /
    • 2008.10a
    • /
    • pp.14-17
    • /
    • 2008
  • Recently, several advanced flow visualization techniques such as Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) including stereo PIV, holographic PIV, and dynamic PIV have been developed. These advanced techniques have strong potential as the experimental technology which can be used for verifying numerical simulation. In addition, there would be indispensable in solving complicated thermo-fluid flow problems not only in the industrial fields such as automotive, space, electronics, aero- and hydro-dynamics, steel, and information engineering, but also in the basic research fields of medical science, bio-medical engineering, environmental and energy engineering etc. Especially, NT (Nano Technology) and BT (Bio Technology) strongly demand these advanced measurement techniques, because it is difficult for conventional methods to observe most complicated nano- and bio-fluidic phenomena. In this paper, the basic principle of these advanced visualization techniques and their practical applications which cannot be resolved by conventional methods, such as flow in automotive HVAC system, ship and propeller wake, three-dimensional flow measurement in micro-conduits, and flow around a circulating cylinder will be introduced.

  • PDF

Functionalization of Multi-walled Carbon Nanotube by Treatment with Dry Ozone Gas for the Enhanced Dispersion and Adhesion in Polymeric Composites

  • Kim, Jung-Hwan;Min, Byung-Gil
    • Carbon letters
    • /
    • v.11 no.4
    • /
    • pp.298-303
    • /
    • 2010
  • A method of functionalization of multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWNT) at room temperature using dry ozone gas is described. The resulting MWNT were characterized by Fourier transform infrared, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy. Combined to these analyses and solubility in liquids, it could be concluded that the dry ozone gas exposure introduces polar functional groups such as carboxylic groups to MWNT similar to acidic modification of MWNT. Particularly, the stable dispersion of MWNT in water after ozone treatment above a critical level could be obtained, implying potential bio-application. The hydrophilic functional groups on the MWNT introduced by ozone oxidation were helpful in improving the interaction with functional groups in PA6 such as $-NH_2$ and -CONH- resulting in improved mechanical properties.

Crystallization of amorphous Si by pulse annealing with Ni ferritins

  • Tojo, Yosuke;Miura, Atsushi;Fuyuki, Takashi;Yamashita, Ichiro;Uraoka, Yukiharu
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
    • /
    • 2009.10a
    • /
    • pp.553-556
    • /
    • 2009
  • We investigated an application of supramolecular protein, and demonstrated the metal induced lateral crystallization utilizing ferritins with Ni nanoparticles, named the "bio-nano-crystallization". So far, this method has required long time, because of this method condition based on the conventional solid phase crystallization. In this study, we applied the pulsed rapid thermal annealing to bio-nanocrystallization. As a result, we succeeded in the crystallization for a short time. We found that the TFTs characteristics were improved with decrease metal impieties in poly-Si thin films by this method.

  • PDF

A Test of Antifungal Spray Formulation Containing Nanosized Silica-Silver Particles Prepared by Using Gamma Irradiation for Practical Use to Control Indoor Fungi (감마선 조사에 의해 제조된 나노-실리카은 유무기복합 입자를 포함한 항진균성 스프레이 제제의 생활환경 저해균에 대한 실용성 검토)

  • Kim, Seong-Ho;Park, Hae-Jin;Kim, Hwa-Jung;Park, Hae-Jun
    • Journal of Radiation Industry
    • /
    • v.2 no.3
    • /
    • pp.149-154
    • /
    • 2008
  • The present study described an antimicrobial spray composition comprising nanosized silica-silver particles, in which nano-silver is bound to silica molecules and a water-soluble polymer, the nanosized silica-silver particles prepared by irradiating a solution comprising a silver salt, silicate and the water-soluble polymer with radiation rays. According to a surfactant addition, the compositions were not turbid and were colorless. Also samples (cotton fabrics and wallpaper) were treated with the compositions also did not cause any stains even after drying under sunshine and at $80^{\circ}C$. Our results suggested that the spray formulation product was of practical use to control indoor fungi.

Structural and optical properties of ZnO epilayers grown on oxygen- and hydrogen-plasma treated sapphire substrates (산소와 수소 플라즈마로 처리한 사파이어 기판 위에 성장된 ZnO 박막의 구조적.광학적 특성)

  • Lee, S.K.;Kim, J.Y.;Kwack, H.S.;Kwon, B.J.;Ko, H.J.;Yao, Takafumi;Cho, Y.H.
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
    • /
    • v.16 no.6
    • /
    • pp.463-467
    • /
    • 2007
  • Structure and optical properties of ZnO epilayers grown on oxygen- and hydrogen-plasma treated sapphire substrates by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (denoted as samples A and B, respectively) have been investigated by various techniques. The crystal quality and structural properties of the surface for the ZnO epilayers were investigated by high-resolution X-ray diffraction and atomic force microscope. For investigating the optical properties of excitonic transition of ZnO, we carried out photoluminescence experiments as a function of temperature. The free exciton, bound exciton emission and their phonon replicas were investigated as a function of temperature from 10 to 300 K, and the intensity of excitonic PL peak emission from the sample A is found to be higher than that of sample B. From the results, we found that sample A has better crystal structure quality and optical properties as compared to sample B. The number of oxygen vacancies may be decreased in sample A, resulting in an enhancement of the crystal quality and a higher intensity of excitonic emission band as compared to sample B.