• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.233-239
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• 2006

Two different nanofluids were prepared by dispersing $Al_{2}O_3$ nanoparticles in transformer oil after hydrophobic surface modification. The agglomerated alumina nanoparticles with diameters from ${\mu}m$ to mm were ball-milled and then treated with surfactants such as lauric acid, stearic acid and oleic acid. The surface characteristics of modified nanoparticles were examined by FTIR spectroscopy. It showed that the hydrophobicity of nanoparticles was caused by esterification between hydroxyl groups on the particle surface and functional groups of surfactant. The shape and size distribution of ball-milled particles were analyzed by TEM and PSA. The results compared with the primary particles indicated that the size distributions of nanoparticles were dependant on milling times. The dispersion stability of modified nanoparticles dispersed in oil was highly dependent on the composition and amounts of surfactants.

• Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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• 한국막학회 2004년도 춘계 총회 및 학술발표회
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• pp.61-64
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• 2004

The proton transport through proton exchange membranes is controlled by the distribution of hydrated structure connected with negative-charged fixed ions such as phosphonic acid, carboxylic acid and sulfonic acid, or water molecules within the membrane.(omitted)

• Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.190-194
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• 2012

Human P-gp is one of the protein responsible for the multidrug resistance (MDR) develpment. MDR is a major cause of the cancer chemotherapy. In this paper, we performed homology modeling, docking study of papayriferic acid into the P-gp nucleotide binding domain (NBD2). For human P-gp, X-ray crystal structure is not known yet. We developed homology model for human NBD2 using HlyB ABC transporter structure (PDB code: 1XEF, resolution 2.5 ${\AA}$). Docking study was performed using Autodock. Docking result was analyzed, which shows that ligand docks into steroid binding site and interacts through hydrophobic and hydrophilic interactions.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 대한전기학회 1999년도 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.1843-1845
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• 1999

We have investigated the dielectric characteristics of palmitic acid(PA), stearic acid (SA) and arachidic acid(AA) Langmuir-Blodgett(LB) films because these fatty acid systems have a same hydrophilic group and a different hydrophobic one (alkyl chain length). In this work. fatty acid systems were used as LB films and the status of the deposited films was confirmed by evaluating the transfer ratio. the UV absorption and the capacitance. Also, the dielectric characteristics such as the frequency-capacitance characteristics and the dielectric dispersion and absorption characteristics of PA, SA and AA through-plane were measured. The relative dielectric constants of PA, SA and AA LB films were about $2.6\sim4.6$, $2.4\sim4.1$ and $2.2\sim3.8$, respectively. That is, the relative dielectric constants were decreased in proportion to the chain length of methylene group. And, the dielectric dispersion and absorption of each fatty acid LB films have arisen from spontaneous polarization of dipole polarization in the range of $10^4\sim10^5[Hz]$.

• Journal of Mushroom
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.181-186
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• 2013

${\gamma}$-Aminobutyric acid(GABA) is a four carbon non-protein amino acid that has several well-known physiological functions, such as a postsynaptic inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain and induction of hypotensive and tranquilizer effects. A lactic acid bacterium was isolated from button mushroom bed, which is showing high GABA productivity by TLC or HPLC analysis. The strain was identified as Lactobacillus hilgardii by analysis of 16S rDNA gene sequence. When the maximum production of GABA by L. hilgardii was investigated with various concentration of monosodium glutamate, the yield of GABA reached to be 53.65 mM at 1% mono sodium glutamate (MSG) in flask cultivation. A Glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) enzyme, which was known to convert MSG to GABA, was purified from a cell-free extract of L. hilgardii and the molecular weights of purified GAD was estimated to 60,000 by SDS-PAGE. The optimum pH and temperature of GAD were at pH4.6 and at $37^{\circ}C$, respectively. The GAD activity was increased by the addition of sulfate ions such as ammonium sulfate, sodium sulfate and magnesium sulfate, indicating that the increase of hydrophobic interaction causes the increase of GAD activity.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.544-548
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• 2008

The objective of this study is to obtain the anti-oxidant nanoparticles based on biocompatible polymers. It was chosen to conjugate with chitosan as the biodegradable polymer and lipoic acid as the hydrophobic anti-oxidant. Lipoic acid helps the regeneration of exogenous and endogenous anti-oxidants vitamin as well as glutathione and hence acts as antioxidant indirectly. Chitosan was prepared from chitin which was deacetylated under alkali solution for the various reaction time. Lipoic acid-chitosan complex was confirmed by $^1H$-NMR. The critical aggregation concentration was measured using pyrene and the values were about $5{\times}10^{-3}$ g/L. The particle shapes and sizes of the chitosan-lipoic acid nano-particles were about 135 nm that measured by DLS and TEM.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• 제15권8호
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• pp.785-797
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• 2006

The formation characteristics of trihalomethanes (THMs) and haloacetic acids (HAAs) were investigated in chlorination of raw water of different organic mallet characteristics. The samples used in this study were hydrophobic (N-HPO) and hydrophilic fraction (N-HPI) (which were concentrated and separated from Nakdong river water), and humic acid (HA) (which is known as a strong hydrophobic acid) as a reference organic matter, the specific UV absorbance (SUVA) of which was 2.19, 1.15 and 7.92, respectively. With increasing chlorine contact time, THMFP and HAAFP (the formation potential of THMs and HAAs) increased, but their increase was different depending on the organic mallet characteristics (i.e., for N-HPI, THMFP was higher than HAAFP, but the inverse result was obtained for N-HPO and HA and the ratio between them was greater for HA), and the mainly formed chemical species were CHCI$_3$ in case of THMs and dichloroacetic acid (DCAA) and trichloroacetic acid (TCAA) in case of HAAs for N-HPO and HA (and the ratios of CHCI$_3$ to total THMs and DCAA and TCAA to total HAAs for HA were higher than those for N-HPO), but for N-HPI, the ratio of brominated THMs was a little higher than that of CHCI$_3$ and the ratio of DCAA and TCAA to total HAAs was lower than that of N-HPO, although they are main chemical species in case of HAAs. Comparing THMFP and HAAFP with the increase in bromide concentration added with those in not adding it, the former increased greatly and its increase was higher for the organic mallet with stronger hydrophobicity, but the latter was lower for N-HPO and N-HPI and was similar for HA. The main chemical species with increasing bromide concentration were CHBt$_3$ in case of THMs regardless of organic matter characteristics, and dibromoacetic acid (DBAA) for N-HPO and N-HPI, DBAA and tribromoacetic acid (TBAA) for HA in case of HAAs. With increasing reaction temperature and pH, THMFP and HAAFP increased for the former, but for the latter, THMFP increased and HAAFP decreased, although the rate of increase or decrease was different with organic mallet characteristics.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Soil and Groundwater Environment Conference
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• 한국지하수토양환경학회 2005년도 총회 및 춘계학술발표회
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• pp.42-45
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• 2005

Accurate prediction of the fate and transport of contaminants in soils and sediments is very Important to environmental risk assessment and effective remediation of contaminated soils and sediments. The fate and transport of contaminants in subsurface are affected by geosorbents, especially carbonaceous materials including black carbon. Various physical and chemical treatment methods have been developed to separate different kinds of carbonaceous materials from soils and sediments. However, the effects of these separation methods on the properties of remaining carbonaceous materials including sorption capacity and linearity are unclear. The objective of this study is to determine if the chemical and thermal treatment methods previously used to separate different carbonaceous material fractions affect the properties of carbonaceous materials including longer term sorption capacity of hydrophobic organic contaminants. The results indicate that treatments with hydrochloric acid (HCl)/hydrofluoric acid (HF), trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), sodium hydroxide (NaOH) may not affect the sorption capacity of black carbon reference materials such as char and soot, however, treatments with acid dichromate $(K_2Cr_2O_7/H_2SO_4)$ and heat $(375^{\circ}C)$ for 24 hours in sufficient of oxygen) decrease the sorption capacity of them. The results of longer term sorption isotherm indicate that 2 days might be enough for trichloroethene (TCE) to equilibrate apparently with treated black carbon reference materials. The results suggest that acid dichromate and heat treatments may not appropriate method to investigate sorption properties of black carbon in soils and sediments.

• Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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• 한국막학회 1996년도 춘계 총회 및 학술발표회
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• pp.40-41
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• 1996

기존에 membrane의 소재로 사용되어 왔던 Polyethersulfone은 막 제조 특성이 우수하고 여러 가지 환경에 대한 저항성이 뛰어나서 많이 이용되어 왔지만 소수성을 띠므로 농도분극과 fouling등 많은 문제점을 안고 있다. 이런 문제점을 극복하기 위하여 친수성의 도입, 물리적, 화학적 세척등 여러 가지 방법을 사용하고 있고 본 연구에서는 hydrophobic Polyethersulfone에 hydrophilic Sulfonate group(-SO$_3$H)을 도입하여 이와같은 문제를 극복하고자 했다. 본 연구에서 사용한 sulfonating agent로는 Chlorosulfonic acid (in CCl$_4$)를 사용하였다.

• Macromolecular Research
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.49-52
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• 2002

Rod-coil amphiphilic block copolymers, PALG-PEOs, poly(alkyl $\alpha$, L-glutamate-co-ethylene oxide)s, were successfully synthesized in three steps: 1) esterification of L-glutamic acid, 2) synthesis of ${\gamma}$-alkyl L-gultamate N-carboxyanhydride, and 3) polymerization of NCA monomers. These molecules form polymeric micelles with the hydrophobic core and hydrophilic corona in aqueous solution, which were characterized by light scattering and static fluorescence measurement.