• Elastomers and Composites
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.125-133
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• 1988

The thermal degradation of polymethyl methacrylate(PMMA) blend namely polymethyl methacrylate-polycarbonate(PMMA-PC) blend and polymethyl methacrylate-polystyrene(PMMA-PS) blend were carried out by isothermal method under air at several heating temperature from 220 to $270^{\circ}C$. Molecular weight changes during the thermal decomposition were monitored by means of the viscosity average molecular weight($\bar{M}v$). The viscosity average molecular weight was determined by Gel Permeation Chromatography(GPC). The dominant process in the degradation of PMMA-PC and PMMA-PS blend were main chain scission randomly due to weak links that may be distributed along the polymer backbone and the initial rate which the bonds are broken is not sustained. The infra-red spectra of degraded PMMA-PS blend show that the presence of aromatic ketone band at $1685cm^{-1}$. However, the infra-red spectra of degraded PMMA-PC blend show that the presence of hydroperoxide band at $3450cm^{-1}$. Thus indicating that the weak links are attacked by oxygen from the air and produce hydroperoxide or ketone. The activation energies of PMMA-PC blend and PMMA-PS blend were 18.2 and 17.9 Kcal/mol, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.28 no.12
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• pp.1403-1410
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• 2011

Creep characteristic is an important failure mechanism when evaluating engineering materials that are soft material as polymers or used as mechanical elements at high temperatures. One of the popular thermo-elastic polymers, Polymethyl methacrylate(PMMA) which is used broadly for engineering polymer, as it has excellent mechanical and thermal properties compared to other polymers, was studied for creep characteristic at various level of stresses and temperatures. From the experimental results, the creep limit of PMMA at room temperature is 85 % of tensile strength. which is higher than that of PE (75%)at room temperature. Also the creep limits decreased to nil linearly as the temperatures increased, up to $120^{\circ}C$ of the melting point($267^{\circ}C$). Also the first and third stage among the three creep stages were non-existent nor were there any rupture failure which occurred for many metals at high temperatures.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.22 no.11
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• pp.1255-1260
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• 2001

The expansion of two different kinds of hydrodynamic size of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA Mw: 1.56- 2.04 ${\times}$ 106 g/mol) has been measured by dynamic light scattering and viscometry above the Flory $\theta$ temperature of the variou s solvents such as n-butyl chloride, 3-heptanone, and 4-heptanone. The expansion of PMMA chains was analyzed in terms of universal temperature parameters and also compared with previous results of polystyrene (PS) system. First it was found that simple $\tau/{\tau}c$ parameter no longer had its universality for the expansion behavior of hydrodynamic size in the chemically different linear polymer chains. However after modifying ${\tau}/{\tau}c$ parameter into $(Mw/Ro2)3}2(\tau/\tauc)$, we observed a much better universality for both PMMA and PS systems. Here Mw, Ro, $\tau[=(T-{\theta}$)/${\theta}$]$, and ${\tau}c[=({\theta}-Tc)/Tc]$ are defined as the weight average molecular weight, the unperturbed end-to-end distance, the reduced temperature and the reduced critical temperature, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2005.05b
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• pp.29-32
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• 2005

Poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) is one of the promising representive of polymer gate dielectric for its high resistivity and sutible dielectric constant. PMMA (Mw=96700) films were prepared on p-Si by spin coating method. PMMA were coated compactively and flatly as observeed by AFM. MIS(Al/PMMA/p-Si) structure was made and capacitance-voltage (C-V) and current-voltage (I-V) measurements were done with PMMA films for different thermal treatment temperature. PMMA films were showed proper dielectric constant and breakdown voltage. Above the glass transition temperature PMMA films degraded. C-V measured at various frequencies, dielectric constant increased a little. The absence of hysteresis in the C-V characteristics, which eliminate the possibility of mobile charges in the PMMA films. The observed thermal stability, smooth surfaces, dielectric constant, I-V behavior implies PMMA formed by spin coating can be used as an efficient gate dielectric layer in OTFTs.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.111-112
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• 2006

실리콘을 기반으로 한 micro-Total Analysis Systems(${\mu}$-TAS)이 출현한 이후에, 현재까지 다양한 고분자 화합물을 이용한 유체소자의 연구가 진행중이다. 고분자 화합물은 실리콘과 유리를 이용한 전통적인 유체소자 재료에 비해 재료의 경제성과 소자 제작의 용이성 그리고 처리하고자 하는 유체에 맞는 다양한 재료를 선택할 수 있다는 장점을 지니고 있다. 하지만 고분자 화합물의 표면 에너지가 실리콘과 유리에 비해 낮은 단점을 가지고 있다. 이러한 문제를 극복하기 위해 다양한 표면처리 연구가 이루어져왔다. 레이저를 이용한 표면처리는 실험장치가 간단하고 대기 중에서 실시할 수 있다는 장점을 가지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 Nd:YAG 레이저(${\lambda}$=266 nm, pulse)를 이용하여 유체소자 재료로써 많이 사용되는 polymethly methacrylate(PMMA)의 표면개질을 시도하였다. 표면처리 후 접촉각 측정기를 이용하여 표면개질 정도를 확인한 결과, 표면 산소 함유량이 증가됨에 따라 접촉각이 감소하였다. 결론적으로 PMMA의 본래 성질은 유지한 채 레이저 표면처리를 이용한 표면 에너지 증가 효과를 볼 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.103.2-103.2
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• 2007

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07c
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• pp.1924-1926
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• 2005

Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) is one of the promising representive of polymer gate dielectric for its high resistivity and sutible dielectric constant. PMMA (Mw=96700) films were prepared on p-Si by spin coating method. PMMA were coated compactively and flatly as observes by AFM. MIS(Al/PMMA/p-Si) structure was made and capacitance-voltage (C-V) and current-voltage (I-V) measurements were done with PMMA films for repeated annealing cycles at $100^{\circ}C$. 1-V measured at various delay times $(0{\sim}20sec)$ showed little change and the absence of hysteresis in the I-V characteristics with delay times, which eliminate the possibility of deep traps in the PMMA films. The observed thermal stability, smooth surfaces, dielectric constant, I-V behavior implies PMMA formed by spin coating can be used as an efficient gate dielectric layer in OTFTs.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.286-287
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 최근 유체소자 재료로써 많이 사용되고 있는 polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA)의 레이저 직접식각에 관한 특성을 나타내었다. 식각을 위한 레이저 원으로 기본파가 1064 nm, 반복율이 10 Hz인 Nd:YAG 레이저의 4고조파 성분 ($\lambda$=266 nm)을 사용하였다. X-Y-Z 축으로 이동 가능한 스테이지의 수평 이동속도를 변화시키며, 표면으로 조사되는 펄스 수를 제어하였다. 식각 후 광학현미경으로 식각 단면을 조사하여 식각 깊이와 폭을 측정하였다. 측정된 식각 깊이로부터 식각률을 계산하고, 그 값과 레이저 빔 밀도와의 관계를 알아보았다. 그 결과 시료 표면에 조사되는 레이저 빔 밀도의 로그값과 선형적인 관계를 갖는 것을 확인할 수 있었다. 또한 주사전자현미경을 이용하여 채널 형상 및 채널 내벽을 관찰하였다. 마이크로 채널 내벽에 식각 과정에서 발생한 생성물의 제거를 위해, 레이저 식각과 함께 질소가스 블로잉을 해주었다. 질소 블로잉 압력 1500 torr에서 식각 잔유물이 제거된 내벽을 볼 수 있었다. 실험결과, Nd:YAG 4고조파를 이용하여 PMMA 기판상에 유체 이동을 위한 마이크로 채널을 형성시킬 수 있었다.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.194-199
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• 2016

We prepared polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) beads with a particle size of 80 nm to improve the energy conversion efficiency (ECE) by increasing the effective surface area and the dye absorption ability of the working electrodes (WEs) in a dye sensitized solar cell (DSSC). We prepared the $TiO_2$ layer with PMMA beads of 0.0~1.0 wt%; then, finally, a DSSC with $0.45cm^2$ active area was obtained. Optical microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, field emission scanning electron microscopy, and atomic force microscopy were used to characterize the microstructure of the $TiO_2$ layer with PMMA. UV-VIS-NIR was used to determine the optical absorbance of the WEs with PMMA. A solar simulator and a potentiostat were used to determine the photovoltaic properties of the PMMA-added DSSC. Analysis of the microstructure showed that pores of 200 nm were formed by the decomposition of PMMA. Also, root mean square values linearly increased as more PMMA was added. The absorbance in the visible light regime was found to increase as the degree of PMMA dispersion increased. The ECE increased from 4.91% to 5.35% when the amount of PMMA beads added was increased from 0.0 to 0.4 wt%. However, the ECE decreased when more than 0.6 wt% of PMMA was added. Thus, adding a proper amount of PMMA to the $TiO_2$ layer was determined to be an effective method for improving the ECE of a DSSC.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.272-275
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• 2006

In order to evaluate the possibility of Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) as a binder on hydroxyapatite (HAp) which has good biocompatibility, the properties of HAp compacts with PMMA were examined. When adding 50 wt% of PMMA on HAp and pressed, the compression strength and the hardness of the compacting body were 168MPa and 55 Hv, respectively, and the strength of compacts was higher than that of cortical bone and the hardness was similar to the value of molar. We demonstrated that HAp ceramics can be obtained without additional heat treatment and machining of the ceramic was feasible. Therefore, the HAp compacts have potential to apply to implant or artificial bone after the clinical trials guarantees biocompatibility of it.