• Elastomers and Composites
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• 제56권3호
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• pp.117-123
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• 2021

Electronic skin (or E-skin) is an artificial smart skin composed of one or more than two sensors. E-skins detect external stimuli and convert them into electrical signals. Various types of E-skin sensors exist, including mechanical, physical, and chemical, depending on the detection signals involved. For wearable E-skins with superior sensitivity and reliability, developing conductors that possess both good elasticity and sensitivity is essential. Typical electrical conductors used in these sensors show very high sensitivity, but they have drawbacks such as non-linearity, irreversibility, and a narrow sensing range. To address these issues, stretchable and lightweight ionic conductors have been actively used in E-skin applications. This study summarizes the recent progress on various types of ionic conductors and ionic-conductor-based E-skin sensors.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.115-119
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• 2003

The thick film type sensor having Pt/Na Super Ionic Conductor(NASICON) solid electrolyte/Pt/$Na_2$$SO_4$/Pt catalyst system for $SO_2$gas was fabricated by screen-print method. The phase of Na Super Ionic Conductor solid electrolyte sintered at different temperature of 1050, 1150,$ 1250^{\circ}C$ and for different time of 1.5, 2.5, 3.5 hr were investigated by XRD. The Electromotive Force variation of the sensor with $SO_2$concentrations and operating temperatures were investigated. The major phase of Na Super Ionic Conductor film sintered at 115$0^{\circ}C$ for 3.5 hr was sodium zirconium silicon phosphate($Na_3$Zr$_2$$Si_2$PO$_{12}$). The Nernst's slope of Na Super Ionic Conductor sensor for $SO_2$gas with the variation of concentration from 10 to 100 ppm was 167.14 ㎷/decade at the operating temperature of $500 ^{\circ}C$. The increase of oxygen partial pressure was not affected to the variation of Nernst's slope.e.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.1465-1468
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• 2014

In this study, an intermediate temperature ionic conductor, $Ce_{0.95}Eu_{0.05}P_2O_7$, was prepared by solid state reaction. The variation of conductivities with the pressure $pH_2O$ or time were studied. The highest conductivity of $Ce_{0.95}Eu_{0.05}P_2O_7$ sample was observed in dry air atmosphere at $300^{\circ}C$ to be $1.1{\times}10^{-4}S{\cdot}cm^{-1}$ and in wet air atmosphere ($pH_2O=7.4{\times}10^3Pa$) at $100^{\circ}C$ to be $1.4{\times}10^{-3}S{\cdot}cm^{-1}$, respectively. The log ${\sigma}$ ~ log ($pO_2$) plot result indicated that $Ce_{0.95}Eu_{0.05}P_2O_7$ was almost a pure ionic conductor under high oxygen partial pressure and a mixed conductor of ion and electron under low oxygen partial pressure.

• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제50권4호
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• pp.237-243
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• 2017

We demonstrated the thin film deposition of sodium phosphorous oxynitride (NaPON) via RF magnetron sputtering of $Na_3PO_4$, as a solid-state Na-ion conductor similar to lithium phosphorous oxynitride (LiPON), which is a commonly used solid electrolyte. The deposited NaPON thin film was characterized by scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffractometry, and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, to investigate the feasibility of the solid-state electrolyte in several different cell configurations. The key properties of a solidstate electrolyte, i.e., ionic conductivity and activation energy, were estimated from the complex non-linear least square fitting of the measured impedance spectra at various temperatures in the range of $27-90^{\circ}C$. The ionic conductivity of the NaPON film was measured to be $8.73{\times}10^{-6}S\;cm^{-1}$ at $27^{\circ}C$, which was comparable to that of the LiPON film. The activation energy was estimated to be 0.164 eV, which was lower than that of the LiPON film (0.672 eV). The obtained values encourage the use of a NaPON thin film in the future as a reasonable solid-state electrolyte.

• 폴리머
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.149-153
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• 2004

황산수소 세슘(CsHSO$_4$) 결정은 14$0^{\circ}C$ 이상의 온도에서 상온보다 $10^3$-$10^4$배 높은 양성자 전도성을 나타내는 초양성자 전도성 물질로서, 최근 연료 전지 분리막으로의 응용성이 크게 부각되고 있다. 그러나 연성과 흡습성 때문에 그 응용성에 한계가 있다. 본 연구에서는 기계적 물성이 우수한 얇은 전해질 막을 얻기 위하여 황산수소 세슘과 폴리아크릴로나이트릴 고분자와의 복합체를 제조하고 복합체의 이온 전도성과 상전이 현상을 조사하였다. 황산수소 세슘의 함량이 80 vol% 정도 되면 분리막으로 응용가능 한 전도도인 1${\times}$$10^{-3}$S$cm^{-1}$ /에 이르고 기계적 물성이 우수한 얇은 막으로 합성할 수 있었다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.63-69
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• 2024

A novel method for measuring hydrogen concentration is introduced, along with its working principle and a novel detection algorithm. This configuration requires no additional reference compartment for potentiometric electrochemical measurements; therefore, it is the most suitable for measuring dissolved hydrogen in the liquid phase. The sensor's electromotive force saturates at a certain point, depending on the hydrogen concentration during the heating process of the sensor operation. This dynamic temperature scanning method provides higher sensitivity than the constant temperature measurement method.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.495-500
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• 1989

The ionic conductivity of polycrystalline, glass, and glass-ceramic silicates was measured using two-terminal AC method with blocking electrode over a frequency range of 100 Hz to 100 KHz in the temperature range of $200^{\circ}C$ to $320^{\circ}C$. Analysing the capacitance (C), susceptance (B), impedance (Z), and conductance (G) under the given conditions, an equivalent circuit containing temperature and frequency dependent component is proposed. Higher capacitance could be observed in the low frequency region and on the improved ionic migration conditions i.e., at higher temperature in a better ionic conductor. Also the electrode polarization built up at the electrode-specimen interface could be sorted out above 10 KHz. However, grain boundary contribution couldn't be extracted from the bulk resistance over the frequency range measured here.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.187-191
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• 2019

고체전지, 산화물연료전지, 센서, 산화물 분리막 등 에너지 재료로 활용이 무궁한 산소 이온 전도체 중 acceptor가 첨가된 $LaAlO_3$의 전기적 특성과 고온에서의 혼합전도체로 사용 가능성을 연구하였다. Sr과 Mg을 $LaAlO_3$에 동시에 첨가하여 만든 LSAM의 전기적 특성을 교류(a.c.)와 직류(d.c.) 방법을 이용하여 다양한 산소 분압에서 측정하였다. 교류 임피던스 방법을 이용하여 LSAM의 전체 저항에서 입자(grain) 저항과 입계(grain boundary) 저항을 분리한 결과, $550^{\circ}C$ 이하의 온도에서는 입계 저항이 지배적이나 $800^{\circ}C$ 이상의 온도에서는 입자 저항이 대부분임을 알 수 있었다. 또 산소분압에 따른 전도도 측정을 물질의 결함모델(defect model)을 이용하여 분석해 전체 전도도를 이온 전도도와 전자 전도도로 분리하였다. 그 결과, $800^{\circ}C$ 이상의 고온에서 LSAM은 낮은 산소분압($Po_2$ < $10^{-10}atm$)에서는 산소이온 전도체이고 높은 산소분압($Po_2$ > $10^{-5}atm$)에서는 혼합전도체의 거동을 보였다. 또 온도가 증가하여도 산소이온 전도가 주도적인 산소분압의 영역은 줄어들지 않았고 낮은 산소분압에서도 안정적인 전기적 특성을 보이는 등으로 보아, LSAM은 고온의 낮은 산소분압(T > $1500^{\circ}C$, $Po_2$ < $10^{-10}atm$) 조건에서 용강에서의 산소이온센서와 같은 산소이온체로의 사용 가능성이 높다.

• Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.257-264
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• 2017

A polymeric ionic liquid, poly(1-methyl 3-(2-acryloyloxypropyl) imidazolium iodide) (PMAPII), was synthesized as a single-iodide-ion-conducting polymer and employed in a gel polymer electrolyte. Gel polymer electrolytes prepared from iodine, 4-tert-butylpyridine, ${\gamma}$-butyrolactone, and PMAPII were applied in quasi-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The addition of 16 wt.% PMAPII provided the most favorable environment, striking a compromise between the iodide ion concentration and the ionic mobility, which resulted in the highest conversion efficiency of the resulting DSSCs. The quasi-solid-state DSSC assembled with the optimized gel polymer electrolyte exhibited a relatively high conversion efficiency of 7.67% under AM 1.5 illumination at $100mA\;cm^{-2}$ and better stability than that of the DSSC with a liquid electrolyte.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.359-365
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• 1995

The grain boundary effect on the ionic conductivity was investigated using a.c. admittance analysis in (Bi2O3)0.715(CaO)0.285 oxygen-ion conducting solid electrolyte. As a separated arc representing grain boundary polarization was not observed in the admittance plane, bulk conductivity was measrued for samples with various grain sizes in the temperature range from 48$0^{\circ}C$ to 72$0^{\circ}C$ and the conductivity distribution between grain interior and grain boundary was determined by the reported analytical methods. In the above temperature range, grain boundary worked as a high conductive path instead of blocking layer and ionic conduction through grain boundary was significant. The activation energy for conduction through grain and grain boundary was 78 and 106 kJ/mol, respectively.