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Studies on electrokinetic motion of FULLERENE/POLYSTYRENE microparticles in liquid crystal medium for electronic paper displays (전자종이 제작을 위한 FULLERENE/POLYSTYRENE microparticles의 움직임연구)

  • Kim, Mi-Young;Kim, Kun-Ji;Kim, Sung-Min;Jo, Eun-Mi;Srivastava, Anoop Kumar;Jung, Jun-Ho;Ji, Seung-Hoon;Lee, Myong-Hoon;Lee, Seung-Hee;Lee, Gi-Dong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2008.11a
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    • pp.341-342
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    • 2008
  • The dynamics of nano particles in LC medium under an external electric field is of theoretical and technological interest. In this work, the dynamical characteristics of fullerene $(C_{60})$ particles in liquid crystal (LC) medium under dc electric field have been investigated. This effect was studied for homogeneously aligned nematic LC cells driven by in-plane field. The $C_{60}$ was found to be aggregated in a form of cluster inside the LC medium. Hence polystytene was used to protect the aggregation of $C_{60}$ in LC medium. When the electric field was applied, the fullerenes start to move in direction of applied electric field. The density of $C_{60}$'s particles at the electrodes increase with increase in the value of applied electric field. The dynamical motions of fullerene $(C_{60})$ particles in liquid crystal (LC) suggest that fullerene can be designed for electrophoretic displays (i.e., electronic ink).

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Analysis of the Change in Microstructures of Nano Copper Powders During the Hydrogen Reduction using X-ray Diffraction Patterns and Transmission Electron Microscope, and the Mechanical Property of Compacted Powders (X-선 회절 패턴 측정과 투과 전자 현미경을 이용한 구리 나노분말의 수소 환원 처리 시 발생하는 미세조직 변화 및 치밀화 시편의 물성 분석)

  • Ahn, Dong-Hyun;Lee, Dong Jun;Kim, Wooyeol;Park, Lee Ju;Kim, Hyoung Seop
    • Journal of Powder Materials
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.207-214
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    • 2014
  • In this study, nano-scale copper powders were reduction treated in a hydrogen atmosphere at the relatively high temperature of $350^{\circ}C$ in order to eliminate surface oxide layers, which are the main obstacles for fabricating a nano/ultrafine grained bulk parts from the nano-scale powders. The changes in composition and microstructure before and after the hydrogen reduction treatment were evaluated by analyzing X-ray diffraction (XRD) line profile patterns using the convolutional multiple whole profile (CMWP) procedure. In order to confirm the result from the XRD line profile analysis, transmitted electron microscope observations were performed on the specimen of the hydrogen reduction treated powders fabricated using a focused ion beam process. A quasi-statically compacted specimen from the nano-scale powders was produced and Vickers micro-hardness was measured to verify the potential of the powders as the basis for a bulk nano/ultrafine grained material. Although the bonding between particles and the growth in size of the particles occurred, crystallites retained their nano-scale size evaluated using the XRD results. The hardness results demonstrate the usefulness of the powders for a nano/ultrafine grained material, once a good consolidation of powders is achieved.

Fabrication of Nano-Size Specimens for Tensile Test Employing Nano-Indentation Device (나노 인장시험을 위한 압축 시험기용 인장시편 제작에 관한 연구)

  • Lim, Tae Woo;Yang, Dong-Yol
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.32 no.10
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    • pp.911-916
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    • 2015
  • In the nano/micro scale, material properties are dependent on the size-scale of a structure. However, conventional micro-scale tensile tests have limitations to obtain reliable values of nano-scale material properties owing to residual stress and elastic slippage in the gripping/aligning process. The indenter-driven nano-scale tensile test provides prominent advantages simple testing device, high-quality nano-scale metallic specimen with negligible residual stress. In this paper, two-types of specimens (a specimen with multi-testing parts and a specimen with a single-testing part) are discussed. Focused ion beam (FIB) is employed to fabricate a nano-scale specimen from a thin nickel film. Using the specimen with a single-testing part, we obtained a nano-scale stress-strain curve of electroplated nickel film.