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A Novel Approach to Controlling CaCO3 Crystalline Assembly by Changing the Concentration of Poly(aspartic acid)

  • Zhou, Hongjian;Gao, Yanmin;Hwang, Sun-Gu;Lee, Dong-Yun;Park, Jung-Youn;Lee, Jae-Beom
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.32 no.11
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    • pp.4027-4034
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    • 2011
  • $CaCO_3$ crystalline structures having novel assemblies were in situ fabricated as analogs of naturally occurring proteins and polysaccharides for biomineralization. The calcite crystal was mineralized in a poly(vinyl alcohol)-$Ca^{2+}$ complex film immersed in a $Na_2CO_3$ solution containing poly(aspartic acid). The morphology and size of the $CaCO_3$ crystals were tuned by varying the concentration of poly(aspartic acid). The mechanisms of their nucleation orientation and formation were investigated experimentally and through molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in order to obtain a better understanding of the interactions between the polymers and the crystal at the molecular level. Both the MD results and experimental results indicate that the interaction between PVA and calcite mainly depends on the concentration of the polymer. The novel approach proposed herein for the fabrication of inorganic crystalline assembly structures can be used to fabricate precise crystalline structures.

Effect of Oxygen-Enriched Flame Temperature on the Crystalline Structures of the Flame-Synthesized TiO2 Nanoparticles (산소부화를 통한 화염온도 변화에 따른 연소합성된 TiO2 나노입자의 결정구조 변화)

  • Lee Gyo-Woo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.30 no.7 s.250
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    • pp.692-699
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    • 2006
  • In this work, $TiO_2$ nanoparticles were synthesized using $N_2-diluted$ and Oxygen-enriched co-flow hydrogen diffusion flames. The effect of flame temperature on the crystalline structure of the formed $TiO_2$ nanoparticles was investigated. The measured maximum centerline temperature of the flame ranged from 2,103k for oxygen-enriched flame to 1,339K for $N_2-diluted$ flame. The visible flame length and the height of the main reaction zone were characterized by direct photographs. The crystalline structures of $TiO_2$ nanoparticles were analyzed by XRD. From the XRD analysis, it was evident that the crystalline structures of the formed nanoparticles were divided into two sorts. In the higher temperature region, over the 1,700K, the fraction of formed $TiO_2$ nanoparticles having anatase-phase crystalline structure increased with increasing the flame temperature. On the contrary, in the lower temperature region, below the 1,600K, the fraction of anatase-phase nanoparticles increased with decreasing the flame temperature.

Polyhedral Surface Development Using Quasicrystal System (준결정 시스템을 이용한 다면체 곡면 개발)

  • Kim, Seung-Deog;Lee, Kyoung-Su
    • Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.67-73
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    • 2016
  • This paper is a study on Development of polyhedral surfaces Quasicrystal System. Quasicrystal is the quasi-crystalline material, which is the intermediate material of the crystalline material and non-crystalline material. Quasicrystal is a structures that is ordered but not periodic, the basic form is a rhombus. These studies in the field of chemistry will proceed actively studied, in the field of construction a situation that still insufficient research. Therefore, in this paper, we presents the analysis of Quasicrystal system, and the research on the applicability of as dome structures. This paper described some examples of polyhedron form, and method of applying Quasicrystal system.

Morphology Control of Single Crystalline Rutile TiO2 Nanowires

  • Park, Yi-Seul;Lee, Jin-Seok
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.32 no.10
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    • pp.3571-3574
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    • 2011
  • Nano-scaled metal oxides have been attractive materials for sensors, photocatalysis, and dye-sensitization for solar cells. We report the controlled synthesis and characterization of single crystalline $TiO_2$ nanowires via a catalyst-assisted vapor-liquid-solid (VLS) and vapor-solid (VS) growth mechanism during TiO powder evaporation. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM) studies show that as grown $TiO_2$ materials are one-dimensional (1D) nano-structures with a single crystalline rutile phase. Also, energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy indicates the presence of both Ti and O with a Ti/O atomic ratio of 1 to 2. Various morphologies of single crystalline $TiO_2$ nano-structures are realized by controlling the growth temperature and flow rate of carrier gas. Large amount of reactant evaporated at high temperature and high flow rate is crucial to the morphology change of $TiO_2$ nanowire.

STM investigation of as-cleaved and annealed single crystalline GeTe (111) surface

  • Kim, Ji-ho;Choi, Hoon-hee;Chung, In;Lyo, In-Whan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2016.02a
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    • pp.140.2-140.2
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    • 2016
  • Despite the growing interest in GeTe as a archetypal displacive ferroelectric material as well as the basis of related materials used in data-storage applications, atom-resolved study of single crystalline GeTe surface been lacking. Using low temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS), we investigated as-cleaved and annealed surfaces of GeTe. We found that as-cleaved GeTe(111) surface is composed of at least two kinds of terraces at 78 K. While two terraces show metallic characteristics, they also exhibit distinctive I-V spectra and imaging conditions, with each being attributed to Ge-terminated, and Te-terminated surfaces respectively. GeTe(111) surfaces annealed at moderately elevated temperature introduces intricate networks of extended defect structures. We will present these data and discuss the role of vacancies in the formation of these structures.

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Fabrication and Characterizations of CIGS Powder Evaporated Thin Films (CIGS 분말을 이용한 박막제조 및 특성평가)

  • Suh, Jeong-Dae;Song, Ki-Bong;Ham, Chang-Woo;Ahn, Se-Jin;Yoon, Jae-Ho;Yoon, Kyung-Hoon
    • 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.06a
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    • pp.169-171
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    • 2009
  • We have fabricated CIGS thin film absorber layers by the evaporation of CIGS powders which were synthesized by solutions with different atomic ratio compositions. We found that the polycrystalline structural properties and optical properties of the deposited CIGS thin films were strongly dependent on the CIGS powder synthesis solution compositions. For three different solution compositions, Cu:In:Ga:Se= 4:3:1:8, 8:3:1:8, 12:3:1,8, the deposited thin film crystalline structures were varied form InSe crystalline structure to CIGS chalcopyrite structures. Our results showed that CIGS powder evaporation is potential for the one step fabrication process for CIGS thin film absorber layer deposition.

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Electronic Structures and Noncollinear Magnetic Properties of Structurally Disordered Fe

  • Park, Jin-Ho;Min, B.I.
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2010
  • The magnetic properties of amorphous Fe were investigated by examining the electronic structures of structurally disordered Fe systems generated from crystalline bcc and fcc Fe using a Monte-Carlo simulation. As a rst principles band method, the real space spin-polarized tight-binding linearized-mun-tin-orbital recursion method was used in the local spin density approximation. Compared to the crystalline system, the electronic structures of the disordered systems were characterized by a broadened band width, smoothened local density of states, and reduced local magnetic moment. The magnetic structures depend on the short range configurations. The antiferromagnetic structure is the most stable for a bcc-based disordered system, whereas the noncollinear spin spiral structure is more stable for a fcc-based system.

Colloidal Photonic Crystals with Quasi-Amorphous Structure: Angle-Independent Electrically Tunable Full Color Photonic Pixels

  • Kim, Dae-Hyeon;Jeong, Jae-Yeon;Ji, Seung-Uk;Gang, Yeong-Jong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2010.08a
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    • pp.278-278
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    • 2010
  • Electrically tunable photonic band gap (PBG) materials based on crystalline structures have been developed for active components of display. Despite considerable advances, the intrinsic drawbacks of the crystalline PBG materials such as the strong angle dependent hue and difficulty of fabricating defect-free structures in large area have yet to be addressed for their practical applications. Here we report quasi-amorphous colloidal structures exhibiting angle-independent photonic colors in response to the electric stimuli. Moderately polydisperse colloidal Fe3O4@SiO2 nanoparticles dispersed in organic solvents exclusively form quasi-amorphous photonic materials at sufficiently high concentrations (> 30 wt%), and which reversibly reflect incident light in visible region ($\lambda$ peak = 490~655 nm) in response to the relatively low bias voltage (0~4 V). We show the angle-independent tunable photonic colors with the fast response time (50~170 ms) due to the isotropic nature of quasi-amorphous structures. Conventional vacuum injection technique is applicable for fabricating flexible full color photonic display pixels with various pre-defined shapes.

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Synthesis and Properties of Liquid Crystalline Y-shaped Molecules Containing 1,3,4-Oxadiazole

  • Kwon, Eun-Kyoung;Choi, E-Joon
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.08a
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    • pp.542-544
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    • 2007
  • New liquid crystalline Y-shaped molecules containing 1,3,4-oxadizoles have been synthesized with variation of terminal groups (R = H, $OCH_3$ or $OC_8H_{17}$). The structures of obtained compounds were identified by FT/IR and NMR spectrometry, and their thermal and liquid crystalline properties were investigated by DSC and polarizing optical microscope.

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Preparation of Self-Assembled Crystalline Microparticles with Bispyridyl Zn-Porphyrin

  • Lee, Da-Hee;Lee, Suk-Joong
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.1317-1320
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    • 2012
  • Well-defined solid-state microcrystalline structures from bispyridyl Zn-porphyrin have been successfully synthesized. The coordinative interactions between pyridine and Zn are main responsible for this translation of porphyrin molecular building blocks to crystalline microscopic objects. The hexagonal plates are obtained from acetonitrile and rhombus plates are grown from toluene solution. With a simple manipulation during the microcrystal growth, such as growth temperature and time, the morphologies can be controlled by adopting different molecular packing. Consequently, morphologies of microcrystals have been diversified.