• 한국광물학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.313-324
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• 2009

지표-지각환경을 구성하는 지질매체의 구조와 성질의 정량적-체계적 이해를 위한 예비연구로, 매질을 구성하는 입자의 모양, 크기, 충전 밀도가 공극 구조의 특성과 매질의 성질에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위해 입자의 모양이 구형인 글래스 비드와 모양이 불규칙한 실리카 젤을 이용하여 입자 크기와 공극률이 서로 다른 다양한 다공성 매질을 준비하였고, 핵자기공명 현미영상을 이용하여 약 $50\;{\mu}m$의 분해능으로 삼차원 영상을 획득하였다. 분석 결과, 지름 약 0.2~1.3 mm 크기의 입자로 구성된 다공성 매질의 비표면적은 2.5부터 $9.6\;mm^2/mm^3$, 공극률은 0.21에서 0.38, 투수율은 11.6에서 892.3 D이며, 이는 일반적인 미고결 샌드가 갖는 값의 범위에 해당된다. 비표면적, 공극률, 투수율의 관계는 Kozeny 식에서 예상된 경향과 비교적 일치하였다. 상자집계 프랙탈 차원은 공극률, 비표면적과의 관련성이 높으며, 공극률이 0.29~0.38일 때 비표면적이 약 2.5부터 $6.0\;mm^2/mm^3$까지 증가할수록 프랙탈 차원이 2.6에서 3.0까지 선형으로 증가하며, 공극률이 0.21~0.28일 때 비표면적이 약 2.5부터 $9.6\;mm^2/mm^3$까지 증가할수록 프랙탈 차원이 2.5에서 3.0까지 선형으로 증가한다. 실제 다공성 사암에 포함된 유체의 삼차원 구조를 핵자기공명 현미영상으로 영상화하였고, 이에 대한 비표면적은 $0.33\;mm^2/mm^3$, 공극률은 0.017, 투수율은 30.9 mD, 상자 집계 프랙탈 차원은 1.59로 계산되었다. 본 연구에서 제시된 것과 같이 핵자기공명 현미영상은 다양한 다공성 매질의 삼차원 공극 구조를 영상화할 수 있고, 삼차원 공극 구조에 대한 상자집계 프랙탈 차원은 본 연구에서와 같이 다양한 공극 구조에 대해 분석이 가능하며, 다공성 매질의 이동 특성을 나타내는 매개 변수들과 지진파 감쇠 등에 대한 조절 인자로 사용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.299-308
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• 2009

We manufactured PVA-derived hydrogels using a foam generation technique that has been widely used to prepare colloidal gas aphrons(CGA). These gels were differentiated to the conventional gels such as for medical or pharmaceutical applications, which have tiny pores and some crystalline structure. Rather these should be used in de-pollution devices or adhesion of cells or biomolecules. The crosslinkers used in this work were amino acid, organic acid, sugars and lipids(vitamins). The structures of the gels were observed in a scanned electron microscope. Amino acids gels showed remarkably higher swelling ratios probably because their typical functional groups help constructing a highly crosslinked network along with hydrogen bonds. Boric acid and starch would catalyze dehydration while structuring to result in much lower water content and accordingly high gel content, leading to less elastic, hard gels. Bulky materials such as ascorbic acid or starch produced, in general, large pores in the matrices and also nicotinamide, having large hydrophobic patches was likely to enlarge pore size of its gels as well since the hydrophobicity would expel water molecules, thus leading to reduced swelling. Hydrophilicity(or hydrophobicity), functional groups which are involved in the reaction or physical linkage, and bulkiness of crosslinkers were found to be more critical to gel's cross linking structure and its density than molecular weights that seemed to be closely related to pore sizes. Microscopic observation revealed that pores were more or less homogeneous and their average sizes were $20{\mu}m$ for methionine, $10-15{\mu}m$ for citric acid, $50-70{\mu}m$ for L-ascorbic acid, $30-40{\mu}m$ for nicotinamide, and $70-80{\mu}m$ for starch. Also a sensory test showed that amino acid and glucose gels were more elastic meanwhile acid and nicotinamide gels turned out to be brittle or non-elastic at their high concentrations. The elasticity of a gel was reasonably correlated with its water content or swelling ratio. In addition, the PVA gel including 20% ascorbic acid showed fair ability of cell adherence as 0.257mg/g-hydrogel and completely degraded phenanthrene(10 mM) in 240 h.

• 폴리머
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.401-406
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• 2012

KUSA-A1 골조세포로부터 골재생을 유도하기 위하여, 스폰지형(CSS) 및 부직포형(CSNW)의 키토산 지지체를 적용하였다. CSNW의 표면적 및 공극 크기는 CSS에 비해 상대적으로 큰 값을 나타낸 반면, 공극 부피는 CSNW의 경우가 CSS에 비해 작은 값을 보였다. 세포고정 시험 결과는 CSNW의 경우가 더 적합한 결과를 나타내었으며, 이는 지지체의 넓은 표면적에 기인한 것으로 판단되었다. In vivo 실험을 위하여 세포를 각각의 지지체에 투여 후 일주일간 배양하였으며, BALB/C 무모생쥐의 피하조직에 이식하였다. 이식된 지지체는 각각 수술후 1, 4, 6 및 8주에 채취되어 면역학적 염색을 실시하였다. CSS는 수술후 4주에서 6주 사이에 붕괴되기는 하였으나, 조직의 안정성은 CSNW에 비해 우수한 것으로 관찰되었다. 골조직의 생성은 CSNW와 CSS에 대해 각각 4주 및 8주에서 이루어짐을 확인하였다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.309-315
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• 2012

Metal foam has many excellent properties, such as light weight, incombustibility, good thermal insulation, sound absorption, energy absorption, and environmental friendliness. It has two types of macrostructure, a closed-cell foam with sealed pores and an open-cell foam with open pores. The open-cell foam has a complex macrostructure consisting of an interconnected network. It can be exploited as a degradable biomaterial and a heat exchanger material. In this paper, open cell Mg alloy foams have been produced by infiltrating molten Mg alloy into porous pre-forms, where granules facilitate porous material. The granules have suitable strength and excellent thermal stability. They are also inexpensive and easily move out from open-cell foamed Mg-Al alloy materials. When the melt casting process used an inert gas, the molten magnesium igniting is resolved easily. The effects of the preheating temperature of the filler particle mould, negative pressure, and granule size on the fluidity of the open cell Mg alloy foam were investigated. With the increased infiltration pressure, preheat temperature and granule sizes during casting process, the molten AZ31 alloy was high fluidity. The optimum casting temperature, preheating temperature of the filler particle mould, and negative pressure were $750^{\circ}C$, $400-500^{\circ}C$, and 5000-6000 Pa, respectively, At these conditions the AZ31 alloy had good fluidity and castability with the longest infiltration length, fewer defects, and a uniform pore structure.

• 한국분말재료학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.185-190
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• 2009

Fe-Cr steels are the most promising candidate for interconnect in solid oxide fuel cells. In this study, an effective, dense and well adherent (LaSr)(CrCo)$O_3$ [LSCC] coating layer was produced onto 430 stainless steel (STS-430) by atmospheric plasma spraying and the oxidation behavior as well as electrical properties of the LSCC coated STS-430 were investigated. A significant oxidation of pristine STS-430 occurred at $800^{\circ}C$ in air environment, leading to the formation of $Cr_2O_3$ and $FeCr_2O_4$ scale layer up to ${\sim}7{\mu}m$ after 1200h, and consequently increased an area specific resistance of $330\;m{\Omega}{\cdot}cm^2$. Although the plasma sprayed LSCC coating contained the characteristic pore network, the coated samples presented apparent advantages in reducing oxidation growth of STS-430, resulting a decrease in oxide scale thickness of ${\sim}1{\mu}m$ at $800^{\circ}C$ after 1200h. The area specific resistance of the LSCC coated STS-430 was much reduced to ${\sim}7\;m{\Omega}{\cdot}cm^2$ after exposure at $800^{\circ}C$ for 1200h, compared to that of the pristine STS-403.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.318-322
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• 2007

Porous ${\beta}-tricalcium$ phosphate $({\beta}-TCP)$ bioceramic was fabricated by pressureless sintering using commercial HAp and different volume percentages of PMMA powders (30-60 vol.%). The range of spherical pore size was about $200-250\;{\mu}m$ in diameter. By increasing the PMMA content, the number of pores and their morphology were dramatically changed as well as decreased the material properties. In case of using 60 vol.% PMMA content, network-type pores were found, due to the necking of the PMMA powders. The values of relative density, elastic modulus, bending strength and hardness of the 60 vol.% PMMA content sample, sintered at $1500^{\circ}C$, were about 46%, 22.2 GPa, 5MPa and 182 Hv respectively. Human osteoblast-like MG-63 cells and osteoclast-like Raw 264.7 cells were well grown and fully covered all of the porous ${\beta}-TCP$ bodies sintered at $1500^{\circ}C$.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제29권10호
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• pp.1993-1997
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• 2008

In the present work, Diels-Alder reaction of cyclopentadiene with ethylacrylate has been carried out by using two types of mesoporous solid acid catalysts (Al-MCM-41, Al-MCM-48) with different pore structures. The specific topology of Al-MCM-48 (cubic Ia3d structure composed of two independent 3-D channel systems) exhibit higher activity and stereo-control than those of Al-MCM-41 (hexagonal packing of 1-D channels). The physical properties of Al-MCM-48 catalyst, such as high accessibility of reactants to the acid sites, spatial confinement in the nanoscopic reactors, and 3-D channel network structure that are effective adsorption and diffusion of reactants, play a crucial role in the present study.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제45권10호
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• pp.579-583
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• 2008

A porous $Al_2O_3$, scaffold coated with tricalcium phosphate(TCP) was fabricated by replica method using polyurethane(PU) foam as a fugitive material. Successive coatings of $Al_2O_3$ and hydroxyapatite(HAp) were applied via dip coating onto polyurethane foam, which has a slender and well interconnected network. A porous structure was obtained after sequentially burning out the foam and then sintering at $1500^{\circ}C$. The HAp phase was changed to TCP phase at high temperature. The scaffold showed excellent interconnected porosity with pore sizes ranging from $300{\sim}700{\mu}m$ in diameter. The inherent well interconnected structural feature of PU foam remained intact in the fabricated porous scaffold, where the PU foam material was entirely replaced by $Al_2O_3$ and TCP through a consecutive layering process. Thickness of the $Al_2O_3$ base and the TCP coating was about $7{\sim}10{\mu}m$ each. The TCP coating was homogeneously dispersed on the surface of the $Al_2O_3$ scaffold.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.523-539
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• 2017

Clay soils are typical for their swelling properties upon absorption of water during rains and development of cracks during summer time owing to the profile desorption of water through the inter-connected soil pores by water vapour diffusion leading to evaporation. This type of unstable soil phenomenon by and large poses a serious threat to the strength and stability of structures when rest on such type of soils. Even as lime and cement are extensively used for stabilization of clay soils it has become imperative to find relatively cheaper alternative materials to bring out the desired properties within the clay soil domain. In the present era of catastrophic environmental degradation as a side effect to modernized manufacturing processes, industrialization and urbanization the creative idea would be treating the waste products in a beneficial way for reuse and recycling. Bottom ash and ecosand are construed as a waste product from cement industry. An optimal combination of bottom ash-eco sand can be thought of as a viable alternative to stabilize the clay soils by means of an effective dispersion dynamics associated with the inter connected network of pore spaces. A CATIA model was created and imported to ANSYS Fluent to study the dispersion dynamics. Ion migration from the bottom ash-ecosand pile was facilitated through natural formation of cracks in clay soil subjected to atmospheric conditions. Treated samples collected at different curing days from inner and outer zones at different depths were tested for, plasticity index, Unconfined Compressive Strength (UCS), free swell index, water content, Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC), pH and ion concentration to show the effectiveness of the method in improving the clay soil.

• 한국분말재료학회지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.163-167
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• 2001

A bulk porous $CaZrO_3/MgO$ composite with plantinum nano-dispersion was synthesized in air atmosphere through the combination of several in situ reactions, including the pyrolysis of $PtO_2$. A mixture of $CaMg(CO_3)_2$(dolomite), $ZrO_2$, $PtO_2$ and LiF (0.5 wt%, as an additive) was cold isostatically pressed at 200 MPa and sintered at $1100^{\circ}C$ for 2 h. The porous $CaZrO_3/MgO/Pt$ composite ($CaZrO_3/MgO$ : Pt=99 : 1 in volume) had a uniformly open-porous structure (porosity: 56%) with three-dimensional (3-D) network and a narrow pore-size distribution, similarly to the porous $CaZrO_3/MgO$ composites reported before. Catalytic Properties (viz., NO direct decomposition and NO reduction by $C_2H_4$) of the $CaZrO_3/MgO/Pt$ composite were investigated up to $900^{\circ}C$. In the absence of oxygen, the NO conversion rate reached ~52% for the direct decomposition and ~100% for the reduction by $C_2H_4$, respectively. The results suggest the possibility of the porous composite as a multifunctional filter, i.e., simultaneous hot gas-filtering and $de-NO_x$ in one component.