• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제44권5호
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• pp.144-147
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• 2007

Calcium metaphosphate (CMP) nanofibers with a diameter of ${\sim}600nm$ were prepared using electrospun CMP/polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) fibers through a process of drying for 5 h in air followed by annealing for 1 h at $650^{\circ}C$ in a vacuum. The viscosity of the CMP/PVP precursor containing 0.15 g/ml of PVP was 76 cP. Thermal analysis results revealed that the fibers were crystallized at $569^{\circ}C$. The crystal phase of the as-annealed fiber was determined to be ${\delta}-CMP\;({\delta}-Ca(PO_3)_2)$. However, the morphology of the fibers changed from smooth and uniform (as-spun fibers) to linked-particle characteristics with a tubular form most likely due to the decomposition of the inner PVP matrix. It is expected that this large amount of available surface area has the potential to provide unusually high bioactivity and fast responses in clinical hard tissue applications.

• 한국축산식품학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.302-309
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• 2009

This study investigated the effects of infrared (IR) radiation combined with air blast thawing on the physical properties of pork. Regardless of air velocity, increasing IR dosage produced an exponential increase in the thawing rate of pork. This rate increased further when air blast velocity was increased. IR treatments showed significantly lower thawing loss than that of 0 Watt treatment, while increasing air velocity significantly increased thawing loss of pork (p<0.05). Increasing both IR power and air velocity tended to decrease the cooking loss of pork. Moreover, increased IR power tended to decrease the water holding capacity and shear force of pork. The shear force changes were not significant (p>0.05). Shear force also increased with increasing air velocity. In addition, the higher the air velocity the higher the shear force of pork. In Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) colour determination, control of temperature prevented discolouration from overheating of sample surface. The results suggest that IR dosage combined with air blast has potential in thawed meat quality aspects, and that humidity control could prevent surface drying.

• 한국펄프종이공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국펄프종이공학회 2006년도 PAN PACIFIC CONFERENCE vol.2
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• pp.181-190
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• 2006

This study was conducted to develop dry forming technology and evaluate the properties of dry formed paper made from Hw-BKP. A dry forming mold (DFM) was developed to observe the phenomena of dry forming and evaluate the properties of formed papers. To upgrade the DFM a dry forming system (DFS) was developed. This DFS was designed to improve the formation of dry formed papers and enhance the productivity of dry forming. Dry forming gave papers with greater bulk and opacity than wet forming. Tensile strength of dry formed paper was greater than that of conventional wet formed handsheet when they were made from the same dry disintegrated fibers. But tensile strength of conventional wet formed handsheet made from beaten fiber was much greater than that of dry formed paper made from dry disintegrated fibers. When solvent dried beaten fibers were used in dry forming, the tensile strength of dry formed papers reached 73.5% of the wet formed handsheets made from beaten fiber. It showed that dry forming has a significant potential in improving strength properties when proper preparation of fibers and appropriate humidification, pressing, and drying processes are employed.

• 한국분말재료학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.305-309
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• 2023

This study aims to prepare a colloidal silica-containing powder to enhance the solubility and dissolution rate of rivaroxaban using a self-nanoemulsifying drug delivery system (SNEDDS). We investigate the impact of colloidal silica on a nanoemulsion system for preparing powdered SNEDDS. The liquid SNEDDS comprises 30/20/50 (w/w/w) Peceol/Cremophor RH40/Tween 80, which results in the formation of the smallest droplets. Three powdered SNEDDS formulations are prepared by suspending the liquid SNEDDS formulation using colloidal silica and spray drying. The powdered SNEDDS prepared with liquid SNEDDS and colloidal silica at a ratio of 1/0.5 (w/w) exhibits the highest water solubility (0.94 ± 0.62 vs. 26.70 ± 1.81 ㎍/mL) and dissolution rate (38.4 ± 3.6 vs. 85.5 ± 3.4%, 45 min) when compared to the drug alone. Morphologically, the liquid SNEDDS is adsorbed onto colloidal silica and forms smaller particles. In conclusion, an SNEDDS containing rivaroxaban, prepared using colloidal silica, facilitates the creation of a nanoemulsion and enhances the water solubility of rivaroxaban. Accordingly, this technology holds significant potential for commercialization.

• Clinical Endoscopy
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• 제57권4호
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• pp.534-541
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• 2024

Background/Aims: In March 2022, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) released the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/AAMI ST91:2021, their latest update on comprehensive, flexible, and semirigid endoscope reprocessing. These updated standards recommend the sterilization of high-risk endoscopes when possible and provide new recommendations for the precleaning, leak testing, manual cleaning, visual inspection, automated reprocessing, drying, storage, and transport of endoscopes. Methods: ANSI/AAMI ST91:2021 was compared with ANSI/AAMI ST91:2015 for major reprocessing differences that result in either time and/or cost increases. Time estimates were captured by explicit recommendation inclusion or taken from the literature. All the costs were estimated using publicly available resources. Results: The updated standards represent a potential 24.3-minute and 52.35 to 67.57 United States dollars increase per procedure in terms of reprocessing time and spending, respectively, not including capital investments. Capital costs per procedure were highly dependent on the procedure volume of the facility. Conclusions: The new AAMI standards recommend several major changes, such as sterilization, for facilities to reprocess and manage endoscopes between uses. As more facilities increase their reprocessing methods to reflect the updated standards, they do so at a cost and introduce several delays. As the reprocessing landscape evolves, facilities should consider their true costs and alternative solutions, such as single-use endoscopes.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.85-91
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• 2011

Many protection methods such as surface coating, electric protection, or other methods have been applied to the numerous steel structures widely used in continental and marine areas to control their corrosion, which is done from an economic point of view. Most of these steel structures are primarily protected by coating methods. However, some steel piles under seawater are protected by the electric protection method, that is, either using an impressed current or a sacrificial anode method. Furthermore, environmental contamination may cause a severely corrosive environment, which, in turn, causes the accelerated corrosion of steel structures. Subsequently, coated steel structures could deteriorate more rapidly than the designed lifetime because of the acid rain caused by air pollution, etc. Therefore, a coating of marine paint exposed to seawater, that is, underwater hardening painting, is increasingly required to be fast drying as well as highly corrosion resistant. In this study, five types of underwater hardening paints were prepared with different resin series and additives. Their corrosion and water resistances were investigated using electrochemical methods such as corrosion potential, polarization curves, impedance and cyclic voltammogram measurements, etc. Even though it is generally accepted that the corrosion resistance of bare steel tends to increase with a shift of the corrosion potential in the noble direction, the corrosion resistance of a sample with a coating exhibited a relatively better tendency when it had a lower corrosion potential in this study. The corrosion current density was also decreased with a decrease in the diffusion limiting current density, which may mean that there is some relationship between corrosion and water resistance. The S sample of the ceramic resin series showed the relatively best corrosion and water resistance among those of samples, while the worst corrosion and water resistance were observed for the R sample of the epoxy resin series. The corrosion and water resistance of those samples tended to deteriorate with an increase in the immersion days, and their corrosion and water resistances were considered to be apparently improved by the types of resin and additives.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.54-68
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• 2013

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the effects of microparticles of Socheongryong-tang (SCRT) on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in a mouse model. Methods: The inhalable microparticles containing SCRT were produced by spray-drying with leucine as an excipient, and evaluated with respect to the aerodynamic properties of the powder by Andersen cascade impactor (ACI). Its equivalence to SCRT extract was evaluated using lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and a cigarette-smoking (CS)-induced murine COPD model. Results: SCRT microparticles provided desirable aerodynamic properties (fine particle fraction of $49.6{\pm}5.5%$ and mass median aerodynamic diameter of $4.8{\pm}0.3{\mu}m$). SCRT microparticles did not show mortality or clinical signs over 14 days. Also there were no significant differences in body weight, organ weights or serum chemical parameters between SCRT microparticle-treated and non-treated groups. After 14 days the platelet count significantly increased compared with the non-treated group, but the values were within the normal range. Inhalation of SCRT microparticles decreased the rate of neutrophils in blood, granulocytes in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) and level of TNF-${\alpha}$ and IL-6 in BALF on COPD mouse model induced by LPS plus CS. This effect was verified by histological findings including immunofluorescence staining of elastin, collagen, and caspase 3 protein in lung tissue. Conclusions: These data demonstrate that SCRT microparticles are equivalent to SCRT extract in pharmaceutical properties for COPD. This study suggests that SCRT microparticles would be a potential agent of inhalation therapy for the treatment of COPD.

• 한국약용작물학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.266-270
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• 2007

가래나무 잎을 원적외선 30, 40 및 50 v에서 각각 10, 20 및 30분을 처리하였다. 원적외선을 조사한 잎의 총 폴리페놀 함량, 총 플라보노이드 함량, 잎 추출물의 DPPH radical 소거 활성 등을 분석한 결과, 원적외선 30 v에서 20분간 조사한 처리구에서 총 폴리페놀 함량은 25.43 mg/g로 , 총 플라보노이드 함량은 39.38 mg/g으로 가장 높게 나타났다. 그 반면에, 원적외선 50 v에서 30분간 조사한 처리구에서 총폴리페놀 함량은 16.93 mg/g으로, 총플라보노이드 함량은 23.78 mg/g으로 가장 낮게 나타났다. 전체적으로 원적외선 처리에 의해 잎에 함유한 항산화 물질의 함량의 증가는 물론, 그 추출물의 항산화 활성도 증가하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 하지만 원적외선 처리가 가래나무에 함유한 어떠한 특정적인 물질들의 증가에 관하여서는 추후에 더욱 많은 연구가 필요할 것으로 사료된다.

• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제38권9호
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• pp.521-527
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• 2016

나노 영가철은 산화환원기작을 통하여 염소계 유기화합물과 같은 물질을 효과적으로 처리할 수 있다고 알려져 있지만, 작은 사이즈로 인하여 회수가 어려운 단점으로 인하여 실제 수처리 공정에서는 유출 등의 우려로 널리 적용되지 못하였다. 이와 같은 한계를 극복하기 위하여 활성탄과 같은 담체에 고정화 하여 사용하는 연구가 활발히 진행되었다. 본 연구에서는 활성탄에 영가철의 고정화 시 대표적으로 사용되는 고온 및 상온의 두 가지 경로에 대해 평가하였으며, 결과를 바탕으로 최적의 합성 조건을 도출하였다. 효과적인 나노영가철/입상활성탄 복합체를 합성하기 위해서는 높은 철 함량과 더불어 영가철의 분율을 높이는 것이 중요하며, 이를 위해서는 합성 과정에서 형성되는 철 산화물 및 수산화물의 형성을 억제하는 것이 중요한 것으로 나타났다. 또한 영가철의 분율을 높이기 위한 환원 시간 및 중간 건조 과정의 유무 등 합성 조건의 영향을 살펴보았으며, 그 결과 중간 건조 과정 없이 바로 $NaBH_4$를 이용한 환원 조건을 약 2시간 이상 유지하는 것이 최적 조건임을 확인하였다. 합성된 나노영가철/입상활성탄 복합체는 활성탄의 흡착 능력과 영가철의 환원 능력을 동시에 보유함으로써 나이트로벤젠과 같은 환원이 가능한 오염물질의 제거에 효과적으로 나타났다.

• 공업화학
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.594-603
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• 2018

본 연구는 VOC 제거 기술인 TSA 공정에서 제올라이트 13X와 활성탄이 채워진 두 종류의 탑을 사용하여 원료농도, 질소 유량, 수증기 유량, 탑 온도 등 조업조건의 영향을 분석하였다. 본 연구의 TSA 사이클은 흡착단계, 수증기 탈착단계, 건조 및 냉각단계로 구성되었다. 2% 벤젠 농도에서 제올라이트 13X와 활성탄의 사이클 당 전체 흡착량은 각각 4.44 g과 3.65 g으로 활성탄보다 충전밀도가 큰 제올라이트 13X가 더 많은 양의 벤젠을 흡착할 수 있었다. 수증기 탈착의 결과에서 수증기 유량을 증가시키고 탑의 외부 가열로 온도를 높이면 탈착시간이 짧아지고 배출되는 벤젠의 농도가 높아지는 것으로 나타났다. 2% 벤젠 농도에서 수증기 유량을 75 g/hr로 증가시키면 탈착시간이 1 hr에서 최대 33 min까지 단축되어 상대적으로 건조 및 냉각단계의 시간이 늘어나 수증기 제거와 탑 냉각을 충분히 진행할 수 있었다. 탑 온도를 높이면 탈착량이 증가하나 $150^{\circ}C$ 이상에서는 에너지소비는 증가하는 반면 탈착량은 거의 일정했다. 연속 사이클 조업에서 재생단계 완료 시 잔존하게 되는 벤젠의 비율이 늘어나면 흡착제 working capacity 감소의 원인이 될 수 있다. 제올라이트 13X를 이용해 연속 사이클 공정실험을 수행한 결과 탑 내부에 잔존하는 벤젠의 비율이 4번째 사이클 이후 일정한 값으로 유지되었다.