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Safety Evaluation of Tobacco Substitute (Herbrette); Inhalation Toxicity, Mutagenicity and Immunotoxicity

  • Song, Kyung Seuk;Park, Kun Ho;Yoo, Gi Yong;Song, Sung-Ok;Kim, Hyun Woo;Kim, Jun Sung;Park, Jin Hong;Eu, Guk Joung;Hua, Jin;Cho, Hyun Sun;Hwang, Soon Kyung;Chang, Seung Hee;Tehrani, Arash Minai;Yu, KyeongNam;Chae, Chan Hee;Cho, Myung Haing
    • Toxicological Research
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    • 제20권4호
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    • pp.365-374
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    • 2004
  • Inhalation toxicity, mutagenicity, and immunotoxicity tests were performed using a smoke generation system to investigate the safety of Herbrette, a tobacco substitute made with the leaves of Perilla frutescens. ICR mice were exposed to nicotine-free Herbrette smoke with concentrations of 0 (control), 4.08 $\pm$ 1.32 mg/$m^3$ (low dose), 7.72 $\pm$ 2.14 mg/$m^3$ (medium dose) and 12.83 $\pm$ 1.69 mg/$m^3$ (high dose) total particulate matters (TPM) for 4 weeks. When compared to the control group, the body weights, organ weights in the exposed groups did not show any significant differences. However, certain change of several serum chemical data and biochemical parameters were observed, however, the changes were within normal physiological ranges. Moreover, no changes in organ weight, and no gross/microscopic changes were observed between the exposed and control groups. Salmonella typhimurium reverse mutation, in vivo chromosomal aberration and micronucleus assays revealed that Herbrette did not induce mutagenicity. Upon evaluation of peripheral cellular immunity of mice through in vitro lymphocyte proliferation assay, no significant difference was observed in mean stimulation index between the exposed and control groups. Taken together, our results strongly suggest that Herbrette may not cause toxicity on mice under current condition.

물 묻은 지문을 인식하기 위한 프리즘 광학계의 설계 및 실험적 고찰 (Design and Experiment of an Optical System using a Prism with a High Enough Refractive Index for Wet Fingerprint Identification)

  • 강명훈;김진수;정진우;고은미;김재규;조관식;송한정;황재문
    • 한국광학회지
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    • 제18권6호
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    • pp.395-400
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    • 2007
  • 본 연구는 지문 인식 시스템 중에서 프리즘을 이용한 광학계의 설계에 대한 것이다. 이는 프리즘, 렌즈, 그리고 CMOS 이미지 센서(혹은 CCD) 등으로 구성되어 있는 광학계이다. 종래의 프리즘을 이용한 지문인식 광학계에서는 지문에 물이 묻어 있는 경우에 영상의 품질이 현저히 저하되는 문제점이 있다. 이 경우에 프리즘의 굴절률을 높임으로써 영상의 품질을 충분히 높일 수 있었다. 또한 프리즘과 렌즈를 사용함으로 인하여 발생하는 비대칭 축소 왜곡(anamorphic distortion)과 상면의 지를 최소화되는 프리즘 꼭지각 $\alpha$를 제안한다.

양극산화 시간 및 전류밀도 변화에 따른 다공질 실리콘의 특성 변화 (Effects of Current Density and Anodization Time on the Properties of Porous Si)

  • 최현영;김민수;김군식;조민영;전수민;임광국;이동율;김진수;김종수;임재영
    • 한국표면공학회지
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    • 제43권3호
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    • pp.121-126
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    • 2010
  • The PS(porous Si) were fabricated with different anodization time and current density. The structural and optical properties of PS were investigated by SEM(scanning electron microscopy), AFM(atomic force microscopy), and PL(photoluminescence). It is found that the pore size and surface roughness of PS are proportional to the current density. The PL spectra show that the PL peak position is red-shifted with increasing anodization time. This behavior corresponds to the change of pore size which is consistent with the quantum confinement model. The FWHM(full width at half maximum) of PL peak is decreased from 97 to 51 nm and the PL peak position is blue-shifted with increasing current density up to 10 mA/$cm^2$. The PL peak intensity of the PS fabricated under 1 mA/$cm^2$ is the highest among samples.

Characterization of Photoelectron Behavior of Working Electrodes with the Titanium Dioxide Window Layer in Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

  • Gong, Jaeseok;Choi, Yoonsoo;Lim, Yeongjin;Choi, Hyonkwang;Jeon, Minhyon
    • 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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    • pp.346.1-346.1
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    • 2014
  • Porous nano crystalline $TiO_2$ is currently used as a working electrode in a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC). The conventional working electrode is comprised of absorption layer (particle size:~20 nm) and scattering layer (particle size:~300 nm). We inserted window layer with 10 nm particle size in order to increase transmittance and specific surface area of $TiO_2$. The electrochemical impedance spectroscope analysis was conducted to analysis characterization of the electronic behavior. The Bode phase plot and Nyquist plot were interpreted to confirm the internal resistance caused by the insertion of window layer and carrier lifetime. The photocurrent that occurred in working electrode, which is caused by rise in specific surface area, increased. Accordingly, it was found that insertion of window layer in the working electrode lead to not only effectively transmitting the light, but also increasing of specific surface area. Therefore, it was concluded that insertion of window layer contributes to high conversion efficiency of DSSCs.

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Controlling the Growth of Few-layer Graphene Dependent on Composition Ratio of Cu/Ni Homogeneous Solid Solution

  • Lim, Yeongjin;Choi, Hyonkwang;Gong, Jaeseok;Park, Yunjae;Jeon, Minhyon
    • 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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    • pp.273.1-273.1
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    • 2014
  • Graphene, a two dimensional plane structure of $sp^2$ bonding, has been promised for a new material in many scientific fields such as physics, chemistry, and so on due to the unique properties. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method using transitional metals as a catalyst can synthesize large scale graphene with high quality and transfer on other substrates. However, it is difficult to control the number of graphene layers. Therefore, it is important to manipulate the number of graphene layers. In this work, homogeneous solid solution of Cu and Ni was used to control the number of graphene layers. Each films with different thickness ratio of Cu and Ni were deposited on $SiO_2/Si$ substrate. After annealing, it was confirmed that the thickness ratio accords with the composition ratio by X-ray diffraction (XRD). The synthesized graphene from CVD was analyzed via raman spectroscopy, UV-vis spectroscopy, and 4-point probe to evaluate the properties. Therefore, the number of graphene layers at the same growth condition was controlled, and the correlation between mole fraction of Ni and the number of graphene layers was investigated.

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Post-Annealing Effects on Properties of ZnO Nanorods Grown on Au Seed Layers

  • Cho, Min-Young;Kim, Min-Su;Choi, Hyun-Young;Yim, Kwang-Gug;Leem, Jae-Young
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제32권3호
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    • pp.880-884
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    • 2011
  • ZnO nanorods were grown by hydrothermal method. Two kinds of seed layers, Au film and island seed layers were prepared to investigate the effect of seed layer on ZnO nanorods. The ZnO nanorod on Au island seed layer has more unifom diameter and higher density compared to that of ZnO nanorod on Au film seed layer. The ZnO nanorods on Au island seed layer were annealed at various temperatures ranging from 300 to $850^{\circ}C$. The pinholes at the surface of the ZnO nanorods is formed as the annealing temperature is increased. It is noted that the pyramid structure on the surface of ZnO nanorod is observed at $850^{\circ}C$. The intensity of ZnO (002) diffraction peak in X-ray diffraction pattern and intensity of near band edge emission (NBE) peak in photoluminescence (PL) are increased as the ZnO nanorods were annealed at the temperature of $300^{\circ}C$.