• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.237-244
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• 2004

Micro/nano tribological characteristics of PTFE coating films were experimentally studied. PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene) modified polyethylene and low molecular weight PTFE were used as a coating materials. These films were deposited on Si-wafer (100) by IBAD (ion beam assisted deposition) method. The Ar ion beam sputtering was performed to change the surface topography of films using a hollow cathode ion gun under different Ar ion dose conditions in a vacuum chamber. Micro/nano tribological characteristics, water wetting angles and roughness were measured with a micro tribotester, SPM (scanning probe microscope), contact anglemeter and profilometer, respectively. The durability of the films were measured with macro tribotester. Results showed that the PTFE coating surfaces were converted to hydrophobic. The water contact angle of coated surfaces and surface roughness increased with the coating thickness. Adhesion and friction in micro and nano scale were governed by magnitude of normal load in soft material such as PTFE films. As the increase of sputtering time on low molecular weight PTFE films, the surface roughness was increased and nano adhesion and friction were decreased. The nano tribological characteristics of surfaces are mainly improved by chemical modification such as PTFE coating and given a synergy effect by the physical modification such as topographic modification.

• International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.21-25
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• 2008

Surface treatments act as a barrier between the environment and the concrete, preventing or retarding the entry of harmful substances and cutting off the transportation path into concrete. The effectiveness of a surface protection preventing the permeation depends on how close and strongly connected are the resin molecules. This work intends to contribute to a better understanding of the performance of protected concrete in chemically aggressive environments, by presenting results of ion diffusion and resistance to aggressive solutions of several hydrophobic agents and coatings used to protect concrete. Three different types of surface protections were tested: silicone hydrophobic agent, acrylic and epoxy coatings. The obtained results indicate that the overall performance of epoxy resin was better than the other selected types of protections.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.251-257
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• 2019

Fabricating hydrophobic porous membrane is important for exploring the applications of membrane distillation (MD). In the present paper, poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) hollow fiber membrane was modified by coating polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) on its surface. The effects of PDMS concentration, cross-linking temperature and cross-linking time on the performance of the composite membranes in a vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) process were investigated. It was found that the hydrophobicity and the VMD performance of the PVDF hollow fiber membrane were obviously improved by coating PDMS. The optimal PDMS concentration, cross-linking temperature and cross-linking time were 0.5 wt%, $80^{\circ}C$, and 9 hr, respectively.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제34권7호
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• pp.1967-1971
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• 2013

Aim of our study is finding adsorbents suitable for pre-concentration of chemical warfare agents (CWAs). We considered Tenax, bare silica and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)-coated silica as adsorbents for dimethyl methylphosphonate (DMMP) and dipropylene glycol methyl ether (DPGME). Tenax showed lower thermal stability, and therefore, desorption of CWA simulants and decomposition of Tenax took place simultaneously. Silica-based adsorbents showed higher thermal stabilities than Tenax. A drawback of silica was that adsorption of CWA simulant (DMMP) was significantly reduced by pre-treatment of the adsorbents with humid air. In the case of PDMS-coated silica, influence of humidity for CWA simulant adsorption was less pronounced due to the hydrophobic nature of PDMS-coating. We propose that PDMS-coated silica can be of potential importance as adsorbent of CWAs for their pre-concentration, which can facilitate detection of these CWAs.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.259-272
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• 1999

In order to enhance the selectivity, productivity and yield of methyl fructoside, which was synthesized by enzymatic glycosylation of sucrose and methanol solution, controlling of surface property of solid support using different immobilization procedures optimized microenvironment of immobilized invertase. Silanization and polyethylene imine coating methods were adopted to give a hydrophobic and hydrophilic environment of immobilized invertase. As a result, polyethyleneimine coating method gave higher loading of enzyme, effective activity, and relative activity than silanization method, because it brought on increasing the functional density of amino group and enhancing the conservation of activity by regulating of hydrophilicity. And then, hydrophilic environment was possible to restraint the assessing of methyl fructoside molecule, which was more hydrophobic than sucrose, fructose, and glucose molecule in the reaction mixture, into .the active site of immobilizedinvertase. Consequently, hydrophilic microenvironment of immobilized invertase by polyethyleneimine coating obtained higher yield and productivity with increasing conversion than silanized and native invertase. Thus, this procedure optimized the microenvironment of immobilized invertase suitable for the enzymatic synthesis of methyl fructoside.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제18권10호
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• pp.771-776
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• 2017

모바일 디스플레이 및 태양전지의 커버글라스에는 반사방지 코팅 및 셀프클리닝과 같은 기능성 코팅이 필요하다. 최근 들어 나방 눈 또는 연꽃 잎과 같은 자연의 기능성 표면을 모사하여 공학적으로 응용하고자하는 많은 연구가 수행되었다. 특히 실리카 나노입자를 이용한 반사방지 기능성 코팅은 빛의 투과를 증가시키며, $TiO_2$ 광촉매 코팅은 셀프클리닝 기능성 필름에 적용되어왔다. 본 연구에서는 $SiO_2/TiO_2$ 나노입자의 박막 코팅에 의한 투명 발수 반사방지 코팅을 sol-gel 공정과 dip-coating 공정으로 글라스 기판 위에 제조하였다. 기능성 코팅의 표면형상 의존성을 원자힘현미경, 접촉각 측정 및 UV-visible 분광광도계 분석으로 조사하였다. 그 결과 $TiO_2$ 나노입자의 코팅은 가시광선 영역에서 투과율을 저하시키지 않고 기판인 슬라이드 글라스와 비슷한 수준의 높은 평균 광 투과율을 나타내었다. 또한 7nm $SiO_2$/7nm $TiO_2$ 나노입자의 이중층 기능성 코팅은 접촉각 $110^{\circ}$의 투명 발수 표면 특성을 나타내었으며, 가시광선 영역에서 기판인 슬라이드 글라스 보다 2.3% 높은 평균 투과율의 향상을 나타내었다.

• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.222-229
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• 2021

Icing causes various serious problems, where water vapor or water droplets adhere at cold conditions. Therefore, understanding of ice adhesion on solid surface and technology to reduce de-icing force are essential for surface finishing of metallic materials used in extreme environments and aircrafts. In this study, we controlled wettability of aluminum alloy using anodic oxidation, hydrophobic coating and lubricant-impregnation. In addition, surface porosity of anodized oxide layer was controlled to realize superhydrophilicity and superhydrophobicity. Then, de-icing force on these surfaces with a wide range of wettability and mobility of water was measured. The results show that the enhanced wettability of hydrophilic surface causes strong adhesion of ice. The hydrophobic coating on the nanoporous anodic oxide layer reduces the adhesion of ice, but the volume expansion of water during the freezing diminishes the effect. The lubricant-impregnated surface shows an extremely low adhesion of ice, since the lubricant inhibits the direct contact between ice and solid surface.

• 대한화장품학회지
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.57-65
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• 2020

세정 과정에서 물에 의한 단백질 소실을 차폐막을 통해서 방지 하고자 먼저 모발 내부의 물 거동 경로를 파악하였다. 이를 위해서 소수성을 가지는 건강한 모발과, 모발 내부는 정상이지만 표면의 최외곽 지질층에서 18-methyleicosanoic acid (18-MEA)만 소실시켜 친수성이 된 모발과, 다시 표면에 18-MEA를 결합시킨 회복모를 이용해서 모발 수분의 거동을 파악하였다. 모발에 열을 가할 때 일어나는 수분 증발에 따른 질량 변화를 관찰한 결과 표면이 소수성인 모발들은 39 s와 151 s의 두개의 시간 상수로 감소하였다. 이에 반해 표면이 친수성으로 변한 손상 모발에서는 83 s의 하나의 빠른 시간 상수로 감소함을 확인하였는데, 이는 모발 내부에 있는 비결합과 결합 수분들이 외곽으로 빠져나올때 모발 표면에 소수성 막이 없음으로써 바로 용출됨을 반증한다. 따라서 세정과정에서 모발 내부의 단백질 용출을 효율적으로 방지하기 위해서는 모발 표면을 소수성 코팅하여 물분자의 거동을 저지시킬 필요가 있을 것이라는 가정한 결과 친수성 polyethylene glycol (PEG)를 코팅한 경우 179 ㎍/mL의 단백질이 용출한데 반해서 소수성 polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)를 코팅한 모발은 보다 적은 148 ㎍/mL를 용출하였으며, 표면을 소수성 및 친수성으로 코팅하여 모발 내부 단백질을 검량하여 비교하였다. 마침내 소수성 차폐막이 세정 과정에서 모발 단백질 소실을 방어하는 방법이 됨을 확인하였고, 이 소수성 지표를 lateral force microscopy (LFM) 값으로 환산하여 정리하였다. 마침내 이 연구 결과물은 세정 과정에서 발생하는 단백질 소실을 소수성 코팅막을 부여함으로써 막을 수 있는 모발 세정제품 개발에 기여할 수 있다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2000년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부 C
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• pp.583-585
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• 2000

This study reports the fluidic handling method using hydrophobic patterns inside PDMS microchannels. In order to obtain hydrophobic patterns, we pattern fluorcarbon(FC) film surfaces by lift-off process. FC films are deposited by spin coating method and plasma polymerization method. Hydrophobic surfaces are used as the barriers to control fluid flow. Injected liquid is spontaneously filled up inside PDMS-microchannels by the capillary action. Liquid flow stops when it meets hydrophobic regions which can be the barrier against fluid flow. Then, again, when liquid is pressurized externally, liquid can move toward another hydrophilic region by external air pressure. Contact angle analyses are performed on fluorocarbon films to estimate the wettability of film surfaces.

• Tribology and Lubricants
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.190-196
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• 2023

Anti-adhesion coatings are very important in the processing of adhesive materials such as optical clear adhesive (OCA) films. Choosing the appropriate release coating material for dies and tools can be quite challenging. Hydrophobic surface treatment is usually performed, and its performance is often estimated by the static water contact angle (CA). However, the relationship between the release performance and the CA is not well understood. In this study, the water CAs of surfaces coated with anti-adhesion materials and the peel strengths of the acrylic-based adhesive films are evaluated. STC5 and SUS304 are selected as the base materials. Base materials with different surface roughnesses are produced by hairline finishing, mirror-polishing, and end milling. Four fluoropolymer compounds, including a self-assembled monolayer, are selected to make the base surface hydrophobic. Static, advancing, and receding CAs are mostly increased due to the coating, but the CA hysteresis is found to increase or decrease depending on the coating material. The peel strengths all decreased after coating and are largely dependent on the coating material, with significantly lower values observed for fluorosilane and perfluoropolyether silane coatings. The peel strength is observed to correlate better with the static CA and advancing CA than with the receding CA or hysteresis. However, it is not possible to accurately predict the anti-adhesion performance based on water CA alone, as the peel strengths are not fully proportional to the CAs.