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Structure and Property Analysis of Nanoporous Low Dielectric Constant SiCOH Thin Films

  • Heo, Gyu-Yong;Lee, Mun-Ho;Lee, Si-U;Park, Yeong-Hui
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.167-169
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    • 2009
  • We have carried out quantitative structure and property analysis of the nanoporous structures of low dielectric constant (low-k) carbon-doped silicon oxide (SiCOH) films, which were deposited with plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) using vinyltrimethylsilane (VTMS), divinyldimethylsilane (DVDMS), and tetravinylsilane (TVS) as precursor and oxygen as an oxidant gas. We found that the SiCOH film using VTMS only showed well defined spherical nanopores within the film after thermal annealing at $450^{\circ}C$ for 4 h. The average pore radius of the generated nanopores within VTMS SiCOH film was 1.21 nm with narrow size distribution of 0.2. It was noted that thermally labile $C_{x}H_{y}$ phase and Si-$CH_3$ was removed to make nanopore within the film by thermal annealing. Consequently, this induced that decrease of average electron density from 387 to $321\;nm^{-3}$ with increasing annealing temperature up to $450^{\circ}C$ and taking a longer annealing time up to 4 h. However, the other SiCOH films showed featureless scattering profiles irrespective of annealing conditions and the decreases of electron density were smaller than VTMS SiCOH film. Because, with more vinyl groups are introduced in original precursor molecule, films contain more organic phase with less volatile characteristic due to the crosslinking of vinyl groups. Collectively, the presenting findings show that the organosilane containing vinyl group was quite effective to deposit SiCOH/$C_{x}H_{y}$ dual phase films, and post annealing has an important role on generation of pores with the SiCOH film.

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Recovery Behaviors of NR, SBR and BR Vulcanizates from Circular Deformation (NR, SBR, BR 가황물의 원형 변형으로부터의 회복 거동)

  • Jang, Joong-Hee;Choi, Sung-Seen
    • Elastomers and Composites
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    • v.44 no.4
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    • pp.442-446
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    • 2009
  • Recovery behaviors of unfilled NR, BR, and SBR vulcanizates after aging with a circular deformation were compared to prevent the influence of reinforcing agent. Samples were aged at room temperature, 50, 70, and $90^{\circ}C$ for 10 days. Recovery increased by increasing the measurement time. Instantaneous recoveries less than 1.0 sec were obtained using the recovery variations with the measurement time. For aging at room temperature, difference in the recoveries of the rubber samples was not significant because the aging time was too short. However, for accelerated thermal aging at 50, 70, and $90^{\circ}C$, difference in the recoveries of the rubber samples was significant. Degree of recovery of BR specimen was higher than those of the others, while that of SBR was lowest. However, for accelerated thermal aging at $90^{\circ}C$, recovery of the NR sample was higher than that of the BR one. The initial recovery decreased by increasing the aging temperature and the decrement of SBR was larger than the others. The experimental results were explained with the resilience properties of rubbers and the crosslink density changes by thermal aging.

Development of Adhesive Resins Formulated with Rapeseed Flour Hydrolyzates for Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF) (유채박 가수분해물을 이용한 중밀도섬유판(MDF) 제조용 접착제의 개발)

  • Yang, In;Han, Gyu-Seong;Choi, In-Gyu;Kim, Yong-Hyun;Ahn, Sye-Hee;Oh, Sei-Chang
    • Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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    • v.40 no.3
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    • pp.177-185
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    • 2012
  • The interest to develop adhesives from renewable resources is growing to substitute petroleum-based adhesive resins in the manufacture of wood based panels. In our study, rapeseed flour (RSF), which is the by-product of bio-diesel produced from rapeseed, were hydrolyzed with acid and alkali. As a crosslinking agents of the RSF hydrolyzates, phenol-formaldehyde prepolymers (PF) were prepared. The RSF hydrolyzates and PF were mixed to complete the formulation of RSF-based adhesive resins, and the resins were applied to make the medium density fiberboard (MDF). The physical and mechanical properties of the MDF were measured to examine whether RSF can be used as raw materials of adhesive resins for the manufacture of MDF or not. The average moisture content and density of the MDF made with RSF-based adhesive resins satisfied the minimum requirement of KS standard, but the thickness swelling was not. The bending strengths of the MDF made with RSF-based adhesive resins were lower than that of the MDF made with commercial UF resins, but the internal bonding strengths of tested MDF in some make-up conditions of RSF-based adhesive resins were higher than that of MDF made with commercial UF resins. These results showed the potential of RSF as a raw material of adhesives for the production of MDF. Future works on the optimal manufacturing process conditions of MDF made with RSF-based adhesive resins are required to improve the performance of MDF made with RSF-based resins.

Degradation Characteristics of Cross-linked Hyaluronic Acid Membrane (가교된 히아루론산 막의 분해 특성)

  • Cheong, Seong-Ihl;Cho, Gu-Hyun
    • Membrane Journal
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.310-316
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    • 2009
  • The degradation characteristics of cross-linked lactide/hyaluronic acid (LA/HA) membranes were investigated for purpose of applying to tissue engineering. The lactide/hyaluronic acid cross-linked with 1,3-butadiene diepoxide (BD) and 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethyl aminopropyl) carbodiimide (EDC) was degradated in deionized water in water bath at $37^{\circ}C$. As the LA/HA mole ratio or crosslinking agent concentration decreased, the degradation rate of the crosslinked membranes increased. In order to investigate the structure change of the membrane in the degradation process, the control sample and 3, 6, 9 days-degradated samples were analysed by the nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. In case of the membranes crosslinked with EDC, the HA-EDC bonding structure was degradated slowly whereas the HA-LA bonding structure was degradated quickly and dissappeared completely after 6 days. In case of the membranes crosslinked with BD, all the crosslinked bonding structure degradated slowly. The HA-BD bonding structure maintained its original state about 89, 83% in case of 3, 6 days-degardated samples respectively whereas the HA-LA bonding structure maintained its original state about 83, 65%. The scanning electron microscopy of the degradated membranes showed that the pore density in the surface, and the structure in the surface and cross section, of the before and after-degradation membranes did not change greatly, so the membranes was shown to be applied to materials for tissue engineering.

Preparation and Characterization of Crosslinked Block and Random Sulfonated Polyimide Membranes for Fuel Cell (블록 및 랜덤 가교 술폰화 폴리이미드막의 제조 및 연료전지특성 평가)

  • Lee, Young-Moo;Park, Chi-Hoon;Lee, Chang-Hyun;Chung, Youn-Suk
    • Membrane Journal
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.241-251
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    • 2006
  • In this study, crosslinked copolyimides with random (r-) and block (b-) structure were fabricated using N,N-bis(2-hydroxyethyl)-2-aminoethanesulfonic acid and pentanediol as crosslinkers. Linear r- and b-sulfonated copolyimides were also fabricated for comparison. Ion exchange capacities of r- and b-copolyimides were very similar to each other owing to their strong dependence of sulfonic acid content. The physical crosslinking via dimerization of carboxylic acid groups induced a reduced average interchain distance in b-copolyimide without crosslinkers. Consequently, its water uptake and methanol permeability were lower than those of r-sulfonated copolyimides. Simultaneously, the reduced interchain distance increased the content of fixed-charged ions per unit volume. The high fixed-charged ion density contributed to an enhancement of proton conductivity In the b-sulfonated copolyimide. Crosslinking caused the reduction of average interchain distance between polymer chains irrespective of types of crosslinker and polymer structure, leading to low methanol permeability. On the contrary, their proton conductivity was improved owing to formation of effective hydrophilic channels responsible for proton conduction. In particular, this trend was observed in r-copolyimide containing a fixed charged ion.

Mechanical Property Behaviors of Polyethylene Pipe due to Thermal-Degradation (열화시간에 따른 폴리에틸렌 파이프의 기계적 물성 거동)

  • Weon, Jong-Il;Choi, Kil-Yeong
    • Polymer(Korea)
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    • v.33 no.5
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    • pp.446-451
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    • 2009
  • Reliability evaluations of linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) pipe with respect of thermal exposure time have been investigated in accordance with RS M 0042, which is a reliability standard for polymer pipe. As the thermal exposure time is prolonged, a progressive increase, until 250 days, in tensile strength and a slight increase in hardness are observed, while a proportional decrease in elongation at break is showed. These results can be explained by the increase of crystallinity, followed by the increase of crosslinking density, chain scission and the decrease in chain mobility, due to thermal oxidation as the exposure time increases. Long term hydrostatic pressure test result implies the existence of transition point from ductile to brittle fracture. Oxidation induction time (OIT) test is employed to monitor the thermo-oxidative degradation of LLDPE pipe. This result shows that after the exposure time is 250 days, the depletion of antioxidants added in LLDPE pipe occurs. An empirical equation as function of exposure time, under $100^{\circ}C$ thermal-degradation condition, is proposed to assess the remaining amount of antioxidants owing to thermo-oxidative degradation. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy results show the increase of carbonyl (-C=O) and hydroxyl (O-H) function groups on the surface of thermally exposed LLDPE pipe. This result suggests that the hydrocarbon groups locally undergo the oxidation on the LLDPE surface due to thermal-degradation.

Inconsistency in the Improvements of Gel Strength in Chicken and Pork Sausages Induced by Microbial Transglutaminase

  • Kawahara, S.;Ahhmed, A.M.;Ohta, K.;Nakade, K.;Muguruma, M.
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.20 no.8
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    • pp.1285-1291
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    • 2007
  • This research investigated variation in the improvement of the texture of chicken and pork sausages induced by microbial transglutaminase (MTG). The extractability of myofibrillar proteins from these sausages as well as the ${\varepsilon}-({\gamma}-glutamyl)$lysine (G-L) content were also investigated. MTG treatment of sausages significantly increased the breaking strength values in both meat types, especially for samples incubated at $40^{\circ}C$. However, values of the breaking strength in both meat types were increased differently. The variation in protein extractability of samples incubated at $40^{\circ}C$ for both meat types could lead to some consideration of the mechanisms and the high accessions of myosin heavy chain (MHC) to MTG. SDS-PAGE analysis showed significant changes in the density of the bands after adding MTG, especially for the pork samples in which the bands disappeared totally. The G-L content in the presence of MTG was double that in control samples of both meat types. This study suggests that the binding ability of myofibrillar proteins with MTG is strong. This leads us to suggest that MTG functions positively with different improvements in the texture of chicken and pork products that are treated mechanically, such as sausages. Variability in gel improvement level between chicken and pork sausages was observed; this resulted from the variation in meat proteins in response to MTG, as well as to the original glutamyl and lysine content.

Preparation of Anion Exchange Membranes of Cross-linked Poly((vinylbenzyl)trimethylammonium chloride-2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)/Poly(vinyl alcohol) (가교결합한 Poly((vinylbenzyl)trimethylammonium chloride-2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)/poly(vinyl alcohol) 음이온 교환막 제조)

  • Kim, Mi-Yang;Kim, Kwang-Je;Kang, Ho
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.621-626
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    • 2010
  • Anion exchange membranes can be used for reverse electrodialysis for electric energy generation, and capacitive deionization for water purification, as well as electrodialysis for desalination. In this study, anion exchange membranes of poly((vinylbenzyl) trimethylammonium chloride-2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)/poly(vinyl alcohol) were prepared through the polymerization of (vinylbenzyl)trimethylammonium chloride and 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate in aqueous poly(vinyl alcohol) solutions, esterification with glutaric acid, and cross-linking reaction with glutaraldehyde. We investigated electrochemical properties for the anion exchange membranes prepared according to experimental conditions. Ion exchange capacity and electrical resistance for the membranes were changed with a variation in the monomer ratio in polymerization. Water uptake and conductivity for the membranes decreased with an increase in the content of glutaric acid in esterification. The change in the time of crosslinking reaction with the formed film and glutaraldehyde affected electrochemical properties such as water uptake, conductivity, or transport number for the membranes. Chronopotentiometry and limiting current density for the anion exchange membranes prepared were measured.

Preparation and Thermal Conductivity of Poly(organosiloxane) Rubber Composite with Low Hardness (저경도 Poly(organosiloxane) Rubber Composite의 제조와 열전도 특성)

  • Kang Doo Whan;Yeo Hak Gue
    • Polymer(Korea)
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.161-165
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    • 2005
  • $\alpha,\omega-Vinyl$ poly(dimethyl-methylphenyl) siloxane propelymer (VPMPS ) was prepared by the equilibrium polymerization of octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane $(D_4)$, 1,3,5-trimethyl-1,3,5-triphenylcyclotrisiloxane $(D_3^{MePh})$, and 1,1,3,3-tetramethyl-1,3-divinylsiloxane (MVS) as end-blocker. And also, $\alpha,\omega-hydrogen$ poly(dimethyl-methyltrifluoropropyl)siloxane prepolymer (HPDMFS) was prepared from $D_4$, 1,3,5-trimethyl-1,3.5-trifluoropropylcyclotrisiloxane $(D_3^{MeF3P})$, and 1,1,3,3-tetramethyldisiloxane. Poly(organosiloxane) rubber composite containing high thermal conductive filler was prepared by compounding VPMPS, HPDMFS, spherical alumina, and catalyst in high speed dissolver. The crosslinking density of poly (organosiloxane) composite was measured by oscillation rheometer. Poly(organosiloxane) composites of TC-POXR-2 and TC-POXR-4 prepared by controlling average diameters of thermal conductive filler, spherical alumina according to Horsfield's packing model were shown to 1.13 W/mK for TC-POXR-2 and 1.19 W/mK for TC-POXR-4.

Preparation of Solid Dosage Form containing SMEDDS of Simvastatin by Microencapsulation (심바스타틴 자가유화약물전달시스템의 마이크로캡슐화를 통한 고형제제의 개발)

  • Kang, Bok-Ki;Yoon, Bok-Young;Seo, Kwang-Su;Jeung, Sang-Young;Kil, Hee-Joo;Khang, Gil-Son;Lee, Hai-Bang;Cho, Sun-Hang
    • Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.121-127
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    • 2003
  • The objective of this study was to solidify the simvastatin self-microemulsifying drug delivery system (SMEDDS) and to improve the encapsulation efficiency of solidified alginate beads using sodium alginate. Typical simvastatin SMEDDS was composed of various oils, surfactants and cosurfactants. Also solidified-alginate beads was prepared by crosslinking liquid emulsion mixtures containing sodium alginate and other excipients (cetylpyridinum chloride (CP-Cl), hydroxypropyl methylcellulose, starch and so on). in $CaCl_2$ solution, it has been investigated that the drug release pattern and encapsulation efficiency were varied with the ratio of cationic lipid (CP-Cl). Solidified sodium alginate beads containing simvastatin SMEDDS were redispersed into media without re-aggregation. Oil droplet size of redispersed solidified-beads in media produced smaller than the initial size. The density of beads and drug loading amount were increased with increasing cationic lipid content. These systems have advantages of storage stability and predictability of drug release rate.