• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제43권9호
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• pp.564-568
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• 2006

AlO(OH) nano gel is used in precursor of ceramic material, coating material and catalyst. For use of these, not only physiochemical control for particle morphology, pore characteristic and peptization but also studies of synthetic method for preparation of advanced application products were required. In this study, AlO(OH) nano gel was prepared through the aging and drying process of aluminum hydroxides gel precipitated by the hydrolysis reaction of dilute NaOH solution and aluminum sulfate solution. In this process, optimum synthetic condition of AlO(OH) nano gel having excellent pore volume as studying the effect of water and aluminum sulfate mole ratio on gel precipitates has been studied. Water and aluminum sulfate mole ratio brought about numerous changes on crystal morphology, surface area, pore volume and pore size. Physiochemical properties were investigated as using XRD, TEM, TG/DTA, FT-IR, and $N_2$ BET method.

• 한국섬유공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국섬유공학회 2003년도 The Korea-Japan Joint Symposium
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• pp.100-100
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• 2003

An image processing algorithm has been developed in order to analyze the nanofiber web images obtained from a high magnification microscope. It has been known that precise pore detection on thick webs is extremely difficult mainly due to lack of light uniformity, difficulty of fine focusing and translucency of nanofiber web. The pore detection algorithm developed has been found to show excellent performance in characterizing the porous structure, thus being a promising tool for on-line quality control system under mass production. Since the images obtained from an optical microscope represent only web surface, a scale factor has been introduced to estimate the web structure as a whole. Resulting web structures have been compared to those by mercury porosimetry, especially in pore size distribution. It has been shown that those two structures have a strong correlation, indicating that scaling of a single layer web structure can be an effective way of estimating the structure of thick fiber webs.

• 환경위생공학
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.72-78
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• 1998

For investigation into gas permeation characteristics, the porous alumina membrane with asymmetrical structure, having upper layer with 10 nanometer under of pore diameter and lower layer with 36 nanometer of pore diameter, was prepared by anodic oxidation using DC power supply of constant current mode in an aqueous solution of sulfuric acid. The aluminium plate was pre-treated with thermal oxidation, chemical polishing and electrochemical polishing before anodic oxidation. Because the pore size depended upon the electrolyte, electrolyte concentration, temperature, current density, and so on, the the membranes were prepared by controling the current density, as a very low current density for upper layer of membrane and a high current density for lower layer of membrane. By control of current quantity, the thicknesses of upper layer of membranes were about $6{\;}{\mu}m$ and the total thicknesses of membranes were about $80-90{\;}{\mu}m$. We found that the mechanism of gas permeation depended on model of the Knudsen flow for the membrane prepared at each condition.

• Macromolecular Research
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.267-276
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• 2001

In order to endow with new bioactive functionality from demineralized bone particle (DBP) as natural source to poly(L-lactide) (PLA) synthetic biodegradable polymer, porous DBP/PLA as natural/synthetic composite scaffolds were prepared and compared by means of the emulsion freeze drying and solvent casting/salt leaching methods for the possibility of the application of tissue engineered bone and cartilage. For the emulsion freeze drying method, it was observed that the pore size decreased in the order of 79$\mu\textrm{m}$ (PLA control) > 47$\mu\textrm{m}$ (20% of DBP) > 23 $\mu\textrm{m}$ (40% of DBP) > 15$\mu\textrm{m}$ (80% of DBP). Porosities as well as specific pore areas decreased with increasing the amount of DBR. It can be explained that DBP acts like emulsifier resulting in stabilizing water droplet in emulsion. For the solvent casting/salt leaching method, a uniform distribution of well interconnected pores from the surface to core region were observed the pore size of 80 ∼70 $\mu\textrm{m}$ independent with DBP amount. Porosities as well as specific pore areas also were almost same. For pore size distribution by the mercury intrusion porosimeter analysis between the two methods, the pore size distribution of the emulsion freeze drying method was broader than that of the solvent casting/salt leaching method due to the mechanism of emulsion formation. Scaffolds of PLA alone, DBP/PLA of 40 and 80%, and DBP powder were implanted on the back of athymic nude mouse to observe the effect of DBP on the induction of cells proliferation by hematoxylin and eosin staining for 8 weeks. It was observed that the effect of DBP/PLA scaffolds on bone induction are stronger than PLA scaffolds, even though the bone induction effect of DBP/PLA scaffold might be lowered than only DBP powder, that is to say, in the order of DBP only > DBP/PLA scaffolds of 40 and 80% DBP > PLA scaffolds only for osteoinduction activity. In conclusion, it seems that DBP plays an important role for bone induction in DBP/PLA scaffolds for the application of tissue engineering area.

• Journal of Pharmaceutical Investigation
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.209-213
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• 2003

The objective of this study was to construct the pegylated liposomes containing plasmid DNA with optimal encapsulation efficiency. Plasmid DNA $(pGL2\;clone\;753,\;{\sim}6\;kb)$ was encapsulated by the freeze/thawing method into liposomes composed of 1-palmitoyl-2-oleyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphocholine (POPC), didodecyl dimethyl ammonium bromide (DDAB), distearoylphosphatidyl ethanolamine polyethylene glycol 2000 (DSPE-PEG 2000) and DSPE-PEG 2000-male-imide. The liposomes containing plasmid DNA were then extruded through two stacked polycarbonate filters with series of different pore sizes to control the liposome size. The plasmid DNA entrapped in the liposomes was separated from free plasmid DNA by Sephadex CL-4B column chromatography. The decreased pore size of polycarbonate filters resulted in the decreased size of liposomes. The encapsulation efficiency was markedly affected by the cationic lipid (DDAB) concentration, but to a low degree by the size of liposomes and by the amount of plasmid DNA.

• Carbon letters
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• 제1권3_4호
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• pp.117-128
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• 2001

• 한국세라믹학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국세라믹학회 2003년도 추계총회 및 연구발표회 초록집
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• pp.156.2-156
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• 2003

• 폴리머
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.175-181
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 폴리프로필렌을 소재로 열유도 상분리 공정과 연신공정을 적용한 복합공정을 통하여 중공사막을 제조하였다. 희석제로는 soybean oil을 사용하였고 구정의 조절을 위하여 benzoic acid를 기핵제로 사용하여 연신용 전구체를 제조하였고 이를 연신하여 다공성 중공사막을 제조하였다. 연신공정에서 연신율과 변형속도의 영향을 조사하였는데 연신율이 높을 때는 미세공의 크기가 커지면서 불균일한 미세공이 생성되었고 변형속도가 높을 때는 균일한 크기의 미세공 분포도를 보이며 미세공의 크기가 커졌다. 연신율이 증가할수록 고분자 사슬의 배향도가 높아지면서 인장강도가 향상되었고 변형속도가 높아지면서 결정성 영역의 고분자 사슬의 배향도는 변하지 않았으나, 무정형 영역의 고분자 사슬 배향도가 낮아지면서 전체적인 중공사막의 인장강도는 저하되었으며 상대적으로 약한 spherulite를 연결하는 micro-fibril이 끊어지면서 미세공의 병합이 이루어져 원형의 기공이 형성되었다.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제29권9호
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• pp.1027-1034
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 탄화수소의 저온 화학증착 방법을 이용하여 흡착제인 pitch계 활성탄소섬유의 미세기공 또는 기공 입구의 크기를 조절한 다음 $CO_2$와 $CH_4$의 혼합 기체로 부터 $CO_2$ 또는 $CH_4$를 선택적으로 흡착 분리하는 기술에 대하여 고찰하였다. 기공 입구 크기는 조절하고자 하는 크기를 가지는 기체 분자를 흡착시키고 벤젠 또는 나프탈렌과 같은 덮개분자를 이용하여 기공의 입구를 막은 후 흡착된 기체분자를 서서히 탈착시키면서 덮개분자의 열리는 정도를 조절하였다. 기공 입구의 크기를 조절하는 실험에서 $CO_2$ 흡착 후 벤젠을 덮개분자로 하였을 때 $CO_2$가 탈착하는 온도와 벤젠이 휘발되는 온도의 차이가 크지 않아 $CO_2$와 함께 덮개분자인 벤젠도 휘발됨으로써 기공의 입구 조절이 불가능하게 되었다. 나프탈렌을 덮개분자로 사용한 실험에서 시료의 표면적은 753 $m^2/g$에서 0.7 $m^2/g$까지 줄어들어 거의 모든 기공 표면이 덮이는 것을 확인하였다. 나프탈렌은 ACF(활성탄소섬유) 무게의 약 15 wt% 정도 흡착이 가능하며, $100^{\circ}C$ 이하의 온도에서 쉽게 탈착되지 않았다. 나프탈렌으로 처리된 OG-7A 활성탄소섬유에서 $CO_2$와 $CH_4$가 50:50으로 혼합된 가스를 흡착시켰을 때 흡착압력이 증가할수록 $CO_2$의 흡착량은 증가한 반면, $CH_4$의 흡착량은 큰 변화 없이 일정하여 흡착압력이 높을수록 ACF 표면에서 화합물을 형성하는 $CO_2$의 양이 증가하는 것으로 파악되었다. 전체압력 0.4 atm에서 흡착된 $CO_2$는 동일한 진공에서 가장 많이 탈착되었고 $CH_4$는 가장 낮은 탈착량을 보여 고순도의 $CH_4$를 얻을 수 있음을 보였다.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.793-800
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• 2008

Recently domestic drinking water industry has recognized membrane-based technology as a promising alternative for water treatment. To ensure successful application of membrane processes, the integrity of membrane systems should be maintained. According to US EPA guidance, the pressure decay test based on the bubble point theory is recommended to detect any membrane defection of which size is close to the smallest diameter of Cryptosporidium oocysts, $3{\mu}m$. Proper implementation of the pressure decay test is greatly affected by initial test pressure, and the interpretation of the test results is associated with upper control limit. This study is conducted to investigate various factors affecting determination of initial test prtessure and upper control limit, including membrane-based parameters such as pore shape correction factor, surface tension and contact angle, and system-based parameters, such as volumetric concentration factor and total volume of system. In this paper, three different hollow fibers were used to perform the pressure decay test. With identical initial test pressure applied, their pressure decay tendency were different from each other. This finding can be explained by the micro-structure disparity of those membranes which is verified by FESEM images of those membranes. More specifically, FESEM images revealed that three hollow fibers have asymmetry, deep finger, shallow finger pore shape, respectively. In addition, sensitivity analysis was conducted on five parameters mentioned above to elucidate their relation to determination of initial test pressure and upper control limit. In case of initial pressure calculation, the pore shape correction factor has the highest value of sensitivity. For upper control limit determination, system factors have greater impact compared to membrane-based parameters.