• Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.50.1-50.11
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• 2020

Objectives: In this study, we investigated the potential of amoxicillin-loaded polymeric microspheres to be delivered to tooth root infection sites via a bioactive reparative cement. Materials and Methods: Amoxicillin-loaded microspheres were synthesized by a spray-dray method and incorporated at 2.5% and 5% into a mineral trioxide aggregate cement clinically used to induce a mineralized barrier at the root tip of young permanent teeth with incomplete root development and necrotic pulp. The formulations were modified in liquid:powder ratios and in composition by the microspheres. The optimized formulations were evaluated in vitro for physical and mechanical eligibility. The morphology of microspheres was observed under scanning electron microscopy. Results: The optimized cement formulation containing microspheres at 5% exhibited a delayed-release response and maintained its fundamental functional properties. When mixed with amoxicillin-loaded microspheres, the setting times of both test materials significantly increased. The diametral tensile strength of cement containing microspheres at 5% was similar to control. However, phytic acid had no effect on this outcome (p > 0.05). When mixed with modified liquid:powder ratio, the setting time was significantly longer than that original liquid:powder ratio (p < 0.05). Conclusions: Lack of optimal concentrations of antibiotics at anatomical sites of the dental tissues is a hallmark of recurrent endodontic infections. Therefore, targeting the controlled release of broad-spectrum antibiotics may improve the therapeutic outcomes of current treatments. Overall, these results indicate that the carry of amoxicillin by microspheres could provide an alternative strategy for the local delivery of antibiotics for the management of tooth infections.

• 한국작물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국작물학회 2022년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.330-330
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• 2022

In recent studies, cold plasma has been used to induce exudation of polyphenols and flavonoids from food materials, leading to enhancement of functional properties. And it is known that polyphenols interact with inflammation related metabolism. The objectives of this study were to investigate the effects of cold plasma treatments on the increase of total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoid content (TFC), and anti-inflammatory activities of 'Sinpalkwang' peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) hull. Plasma treatments were carried out using a dielectric barrier discharge gas exchange system at different radicals and temperatures (O₃-25℃, O₃-150℃, NO_x-150℃). Significant differences in TPC, TFC, and inflammatory mediator such as nitric oxide (NO) and tumor necrosis factor a (TNF-α) in lipopolysaccharide stimulated Raw 264.7 macrophages were observed between treated and non-treated peanut hull samples (p < 0.001). Cold plasma treated samples showed higher content (TPC: 2.87-2.93 mg/g sample, TFC: 0.96-0.98 mg/g sample) than non-treated sample (TPC: 2.47 mg/g sample, TFC: 0.78 mg/g sample). Cold plasma treated samples showed lower content of NO (3.3-5.0 uM) and TNF-α (141.4-162.2 ng/mL) than non-treated sample (NO: 11.1 uM, TNF-α: 210.2 ng/mL). This study suggests that cold plasma has potential to improve functionalities of food materials and that cold plasma treated peanut hull can be used as immune enhancing materials.

• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.1111-1127
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• 2023

Health-promoting preparations of inanimate microorganisms or their components are postbiotics. Since probiotics are sensitive to heat and oxygen, postbiotics are stable during industrial processing and storage. Postbiotics boost poultry growth, feed efficiency, intestinal pathogen reduction, and health, making them acceptable drivers of sustainable poultry production. It contains many important biological properties, such as immunomodulatory, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory responses. Postbiotics revealed promising antioxidant effects due to higher concentrations of uronic acid and due to some enzyme's production of antioxidants, e.g., superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide oxidases and peroxidases. Postbiotics improve intestinal villi, increase lactic acid production, and reduce Enterobacteriaceae and fecal pH, all of which lead to a better immune reaction and health of the gut, as well as better growth performance. P13K/AKT as a potential target pathway for postbiotics-improved intestinal barrier functions. Similarly, postbiotics reduce yolk and plasma cholesterol levels in layers and improve egg quality. It was revealed that favorable outcomes were obtained with various inclusion levels at 1 kg and 0.5 kg. According to several studies, postbiotic compounds significantly increased poultry performance. This review article presents the most recent research investigating the beneficial results of postbiotics in poultry.

• 한국식품저장유통학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.394-407
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• 2024

The poultry industry faces disposal difficulty in waste, but recent advancements in material science and sustainability have enabled the innovative transformation of waste into valuable resources. In this study, eggshell (EC) was added as a bio-filler to gum Arabic (GA) to fabricate a GA-EC bio-composite film. Bio-composites containing 0.5 g (GA-EC_0.5) and 1.0 g (GA-EC_1.0) EC dispersed in 30 mL of 15% GA solution were fabricated and characterized using standard analytical techniques. The GA-EC_0.5 composites showed significantly higher moisture content, transparency, water solubility, and water vapor permeability but lower tensile strength and thermal stability than GA-EC_1.0. Following a post-harvest wrapping of tomato fruits with the GA-EC composite films and storage at 25±2℃ for 20 days, significant (p>0.05) reductions in weight loss, pH, lycopene content, and activities of polyphenol oxidase and pectin methylesterase compared to unwrapped fruits were recorded. Adding EC to GA has enabled the fabrication of composite films with improved mechanical, barrier, and thermal properties with potential application in the post-harvest storage of tomato fruits.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권5호
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• pp.1679-1686
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• 2024

Graphite material plays an important role in nuclear reactors especially the high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTGRs) by its outstanding comprehensive nuclear properties. The structural integrity of graphite pebble fuel elements is the first barrier to core safety under any circumstances. The correct knowledge of the stiffness coefficient of the graphite pebble fuel element inside the reactor's core is significant to ensure the valid design and inherent safety. In this research, a vertical extrusion device was set up to measure the stiffness coefficient of the graphite pebble fuel element by the Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET) of Tsinghua University in China. The stiffness coefficient equations of graphite pebble fuel elements at different temperatures are given (in a helium atmosphere). The result first provides the data on the high-temperature stiffness coefficient of pebbles in helium gas. The result will be helpful for the engineering safety analysis of pebble-bed nuclear reactors.

• 멤브레인
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.105-112
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• 2018

본 연구는 GO (graphene oxide)를 활용한 기체 분리막 연구를 위해 기체투과도가 우수한 PTMSP [poly(1-trimethylsilyl-1-propyne)]에 GO를 첨가하여 PTMSP-GO 고분자 복합막을 제조하고, $N_2$, $CH_4$, $CO_2$에 대한 투과특성을 연구하였다. PTMSP-GO 복합막의 기체투과는 $N_2$ < $CH_4$ < $CO_2$ 순으로 높은 기체투과도 값을 가졌다. $N_2$, $CH_4$, $CO_2$의 기체투과 경향은 GO 함량 0~10 wt% 범위에서 함량이 증감함에 따라 기체투과도가 감소하다가 10~30 wt% 범위에서 증가하는 현상을 보였다. 적은 GO 함량범위에서는 복합막 내에서 GO가 barrier로 작용하여 확산성 감소로 기체투과도가 감소하였고, 일정 함량범위 이상에서는 계면에 생기는 void로 인해 기체투과도가 증가하였다. 그리고 $CO_2$는 GO의 -COOH에 친화성을 가지고 있어 선택도($CO_2/N_2$)와 선택도($CO_2/CH_4$)는 GO 함량이 증가하면서 점차 증가하는데 선택도($CO_2/N_2$)는 PTMSP-GO 10 wt%에서 10.6로 가장 높은 선택도를 보였고, 선택도($CO_2/CH_4$)는 PTMSP-GO 20 wt%에서 3.4로 가장 높은 선택도를 보였다. 그러나 일정 함량 이상에서 선택도($CO_2/N_2$)와 선택도($CO_2/CH_4$) 모두 감소하였는데 GO 함량이 많아지면서 GO 충진물 간의 응집현상이 심해지고, GO 응집물로 인하여 $CO_2$에 대한 용해도 효과가 낮아져 선택도가 감소되었다. PTMSP-GO 20 wt% 복합막은 PTMSP 단일막보다 증가된 $CO_2$ 투과도와 선택도($CO_2/CH_4$)를 보이면서 기체투과 특성이 향상되었다.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.202-208
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• 2001

In Recent results suggested that doping $Ta_2O_5$ with a small amount of $TiO_2$ using standard ceramic processing techniques can increase the dielectric constant of $Ta_2O_5$ significantly. In this paper, this concept is studied using RTCVD (Rapid Thermal Chemical Vapor Deposition). Ti-doped $Ta_2O_5$ films are deposited using $TaC_{12}H_{30}O_5N$, $C_8H_{24}N_4Ti$, and $O_2$ on both Si and $NH_3$-nitrided Si substrates. An $NH_3$-based interface layer at the Si surface is used to prevent interfacial oxidation during the CVD process and post deposition annealing is performed in $H_2/O_2$ ambient to improve film quality and reduce leakage current. A sputtered TiN layer is used as a diffusion barrier between the Al gate electrode and the $TaTi_xO_y$ dielectric. XPS analyses confirm the formation of a ($Ta_2O_5)_{1-x}(TiO_2)_x$ composite oxide. A high quality $TaTi_xO_y$ gate stack with EOT (Equivalent Oxide Thickness) of $7{\AA}$ and leakage current $Jg=O.5A/textrm{cm}^2$ @ Vg=-1.0V has been achieved. We have also succeeded in forming a $TaTi_x/O_y$ composite oxide by rapid thermal oxidation of the as-deposited CVD TaTi films. The electrical properties and Jg-EOT characteristics of these composite oxides are remarkably similar to that of RTCVD $Ta_2O_5, suggesting that the dielectric constant of $Ta_2O_5$ is not affected by the addition of $TiO_2$.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2016

플렉서블 OLED는 매우 다양한 유기(organic) 및 무기 물질로 이루어져 있으며, 각 층을 증착하는 과정에 의하여 고온에 의한 휨(warpage)이 발생한다. 휨으로 인하여 발생한 굽힘 변형은 후속 공정에 많은 영향을 미치며, 궁극적으로 생산 수율 및 신뢰성을 저하시킨다. 본 연구에서는 플렉서블 OLED 소자의 고온 환경신뢰성 시험 및 공정 단계에서 발생하는 휨 변형을 수치해석을 이용하여 예측하였으며 실험 결과와 비교하였다. 이를 통하여 휨에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 재료를 파악하고, 궁극적으로 휨을 최소화 함으로써 플렉서블 OLED의 신뢰성을 향상시키고자 하였다. 휨의 측정 및 수치해석 결과, 편광 필름과 베리어 필름이 휨에 많은 영향을 줌을 알 수 있었으며, OCA가 휨에 미치는 영향은 미미하였다. 플렉서블 OLED의 휨에 가장 큰 영향을 주는 소재는 plastic cover이였으며, 휨을 최소화하기 위한 plastic cover 소재의 최적 물성을 실험계획법으로 계산한 결과, 탄성 계수는 4.2 GPa, 열팽창계수는 $20ppm/^{\circ}C$ 일 경우 플렉서블 OLED의 휨은 1 mm 이하가 됨을 알 수 있었다.

• 지질공학
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.79-85
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• 2016

방사성폐기물 처분시설 공학적방벽을 구성하는 콘크리트는 주변 환경의 영향으로 내구 수명에 영향을 받게 된다. 현재까지 개발된 수치해석 모델 및 실험을 통하여 방사성폐기물 처분시설 공학적방벽 소재로 가장 널리 사용되는 콘크리트에 대해 주변환경을 고려하여 그 영향을 살펴보았다. 본 연구에 해당하는 철근 콘크리트 구조물은 지리적으로 해안과 인접한 지하수 포화대에 위치하고 있다. 일반적인 철근콘크리트 구조물의 가장 민감한 열화인자인 염해에 의한 철근부식에 대한 영향을 염화물 확산모델을 이용하여 평가한 결과 철근 부식 개시기간이 1,284년이며, 최종적으로 구조물이 내구수명을 상실하는데 도달하는 시간은 1,924년인 것으로 예측되었다. 또한, Mock-up 실험을 통해 공극분포, 공극률, 부식정도 등 물리화학적 특성을 평가한 결과 콘크리트 내 철근 부식정도는 미비한 것으로 나타나 500년 이상의 상당히 오랜 기간 건전성을 유지할 수 있는 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.195-200
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• 1998

본 연구에서는 강유전체 박막의 게이트 산화물로 사용한 $Pt/SrBi_2Ta_2O_9(SBT)/CeO_2/Si(MFS)$와 Pt/SBT/Si(MFS) 구조의 결정 구조 및 전기적 성질 의 차이를 연구하였다. XRD 및 SEM 측정 결과 SBT/$CeO_2$/Si박막은 약5nm정도의 $SiO_2$층 이 형성되었고 비교적 평탄한 계면의 미세구조를 가지는 반면, SBT/Si는 각각 약6nm와 7nm정도의 $SiO_2$층과 비정질 중간상층이 형성되었음을 알 수 있다. 즉 CeO2 박막을 완충층 으로 사용함으로써 SBT박막과 Si기판의 상호 반응을 적절히 억제할 수 있음을 확인하였다. Pt/SBT/$CeO_2/Pt/SiO_2$/와 Pt/SBT/Pt/$SiO_2$/Si구조에서 Polarization-Electric field(P-E) 특 성을 비교해 본 결과 CeO2박막의 첨가에 따라 잔류분극값은 감소하였고 항전계값은 증가하 였다. MFIS구조에서 memory window값은 항전계값과 직접적 관련이 있으므로 이러한 항 전계값의 증가는 MFIS구조에서의 memory window값이 증가할 수 있음을 나타낸다. Pt-SBT(140nm)/$CeO_2$(25nm)/Si구조에서 Capacitance-Voltage(C-V) 측정 결과로부터 동작 전압 4-6V에서 memory wondows가 1-2V정도로 나타났다. SBT박막의 두께가 증가할수록 memory window값은 증가하였는데 memory wondows가 1-2V정도로 나타났다. SBT박막의 두께가 증가할수록 memory window값은 증가하였는데 이는 SBT박막에 걸리는 전압강하가 증가하기 때문인 것으로 생각되어진다. Pt/SBT/$CeO_2$/Si의 누설전류는 10-8A/cm2정도였고 Pt/SBT/Si 구조에서는 약10-6A/cm2정도로 약간 높은 값을 나타내었다.