• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.30 no.10 s.253
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• pp.982-986
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• 2006

It is well known that the surface tension forces can make a particle denser than water float when the size of the particle is of the order of 1 mm. This is deeply related to the basic mechanism enabling small insects to wander around on the pond surface and also to a newly emerging technology of self-assembly using capillary forces. For the quantitative understanding of this effect, we experimentally study the maximum density of a cylinder that can float on water and how fast the cylinder sinks when the density exceeds the maximum value. We compare our experimental results with the theoretical prediction and find good agreement between them.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.02a
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• pp.129-129
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• 2012

Covalently bonded halogen ligands possess unusual charge distributions, attracting both electrophilic and nucleophilic molecular ligands to form halogen bonds. In many biochemical systems, halogen bonds coexist with hydrogen bonds, being complementary to them due to their similar bond strength and dissimilardirectionality. In this study, we directly visualize the individual molecular configuration of chlorinated 1,5-dichloroanthraquinone and brominated 1,5-dibromoanthraquinone molecules on Au(111) using scanning tunneling microscopy. The precise arrangements of observed molecular structures were explained in the context of halogen and hydrogen bonds. We discuss the distances and the strengths of the observed halogen and hydrogen bonds, which are consistent with previous bulk data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.08a
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• pp.111-111
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• 2011

Arrangement of individual atoms and molecules with atomic precision and understanding the resulting properties at the molecular level are ultimate goals of chemistry, biology, and materials science. For the past three decades, scanning probe microscopy has made strides towards these goals through the direct observation of individual atoms and molecules, enabling the discovery of new and unexpected phenomena. This talk will discuss the origin of forces governing motion of small organic molecules and their extended self-assembly into two-dimensional surface structures by direct observation of individual molecules using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). In addition, atomic force microscopy (AFM) is utilized for the investigation of fundamental mechanisms of bone mineral dissolution by examining atomically well characterized simulated bone minerals under aqueous solution environments.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2014.03a
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• pp.29-38
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• 2014

G-quadruplex를 형성하는 DNA연속체는 텔로미어에서 발견된다. 지금까지의 연구 결과에 따르면 G-quadruplex는 다양한 유전질환과 암과의 상관관계가 있으며, 따라서 G-quadruplex에 대한 연구는 제약 개발 분야에서 활발하게 진행되고 있다. G-quadruplex는 두 개 이상의 G-tetrad들이 쌓여서 형성된 복합체를 의미하며, G-tetrad란 4개의 구아닌 염기들이 Hoogsteen의 수소결합 통해, 정사각형의 평면을 이룬 물질을 일컫는다. 이때, 알칼리 금속 이온이 G-quadruplex에서의 G-tetrad 복합체 형성에 중요한 역할을 한다는 선행연구 결과가 있다. 특히, 알칼리 금속 중 $K^+$이 가장 G-quadruplex와 결합을 잘 한다고 알려져 있는데 그 이유에 대한 분자적 관점의 설명이 이루어져 있지 않다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 먼저 G-quadruplex의 기본 구성 단위 구조인 G-tetrad와 알칼리 금속 결합체들의 수용액상에서의 구조적, 열역학적 특징을 정량적으로 비교, 분석하였다. 또한, 양자화학적 방법으로 계산된 수용액 상태에서의 결합구조에 대한 용매화 자유 에너지 계산을 수행하여 G-quadruplex 간의 자기 조립 (self-assembly) 현상을 설명하였다.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.1142-1146
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• 1996

Cholesterol-containing surfactant was synthesized, and it was sonicated with monomer in water to form a vesicle solution. This vesicle solution was dried to construct a membrane which had a molecular multilayer structure. Using UV irradiation the monomer in this membrane were polymerized, and then surfactant was extracted by organic solvent. Using a X-ray diffractometer, the thickness of one layer and the regularity of the multilayer were measured. And scanning electron microscopy was conducted for fractured polymer film.

• Proceeding of EDISON Challenge
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• 2015.03a
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• pp.32-39
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• 2015

최근 펩티드를 포함한 다양한 물질들의 자기조립 (self-assembly) 나노구조체에 대한 연구들이 많이 진행되고 있다. 이는 이러한 분자들로 구성된 구조체들이 환경친화적이며, 생체 나노구조체를 묘사함을 통해 세포소기관의 기능 역시 모방할 수 있다고 기대되기 때문이다. 만약 분자 수준에서 자기조립을 형성하는 단위체를 살펴본다면 자기조립 나노 구조를 개발하는 방법에 대한 통찰을 얻을 수 있을 것이다. 본 연구에서는 최근에 Wen Li 그룹에서 개발한 쉽게 합성할 수 있는 자기조립 펩티드의 적합성을 분자 수준에서 규명하였다. 이를 위해 복제계-맞바꿈 분자 동역학 시뮬레이션 (replica exchange molecular dynamics simulation)을 통해 구조를 샘플링 (sampling)하였고, 얻어진 구조들을 평균 제곱근 편차 (root mean square deviation, RMSD)를 기준으로 클러스터링하였다. 그 결과로 매우 우세한 상대빈도를 보이는 하나의 구조를 얻었으며, 그 구조가 탄소 골격과 잔기의 배열의 측면에서 자기조립 펩티드로 사용되기에 적합함을 규명하였다.

• Macromolecular Research
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.499-505
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• 2005

Ordered mesoporous materials with a hydrothermally-stable, protozeolitic framework were prepared by exploring the direct conversion of inorganic species based on co-surfactant templating systems. To confer hydrothermal stability on the mesoporous aterials, the organic-inorganic hybrids were heat-treated in strongly basic media. Co-surfactant templating systems of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide [$C_{16}H_{13}(CH_{3})_{3}$NBr, CTAB] with 1,3,5-trim­ethylbenzene (TMB) or a nonionic block copolymer of poly(ethylene oxide )-b-poly(propylene oxide )-b-poly(ethyl­ene oxide) ($EO_{20}PO_{70}EO_{20}$) were employed to improve the hydrothermal stability of the organic-inorganic self-assembly during the solid rearrangement process of the inorganic species. The mesoscopic ordering of the pore structure and geometry was identified by X-ray diffraction, small angle neutron scattering and electron microscopy.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.159-166
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• 2012

We have introduced the Pickering emulsion systems to generate novel confining geometries for the selforganization of monodisperse polymer microspheres using nanoparticle-stabilized emulsion droplets encapsulating the building block particles. Then, through the slow evaporation of emulsion phases by heating, these microspheres were packed into regular polyhedral colloidal clusters covered with nanoparticle-stabilizers made of silica. Furthermore, polymer composite colloidal clusters were burnt out leaving nonspherical hollow micro-particles, in which the configurations of the cluster structure were preserved during calcination. The selfassembled porous architectures in this study will be potentially useful in various applications such as novel building block particles or supporting materials for catalysis or gas adsorption.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.83-89
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• 2012

Due to the potential importance and usefulness, usage of highly ordered nanoporous anodized aluminum oxide can be broadened in industry, when highly ordered anodized aluminum oxide can be placed on a substrate with controlled thickness. Here we report a facile route to highly ordered nanoporous alumina with the thickness of hundreds-of-nanometer on a silicon wafer substrate. Hexagonally or tetragonally ordered nanoporous alumina could be prepared by way of thermal imprinting, dry etching, and anodization. Adoption of reusable polymer soft molds enabled the control of the thickness of the highly ordered porous alumina. It also increased reproducibility of imprinting process and reduced the expense for mold production and pattern generation. As nanoporous alumina templates are mechanically and thermally stable, we expect that the simple and costeffective fabrication through our method would be highly applicable in electronics industry.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.54.2-54.2
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• 2012

Solid-state dewetting of thin films is a process through which continuous solid films decay to form islands. Dewetting of thin films has long been a critical issue in microelectronics and much effort has been made to prevent the process and enhance the stability of films. On the other hand, dewetting has also been purposely induced to create arrays of particles and other structures for applications, including plasmonic structures and catalysts for growing nanotube and nanowire. We have investigated ways of producing regular structures via templated dewetting of thin films. Mainly, two different approaches have been used in our works to template dewetting of thin films: periodic topographical templating and planar patterning of epitaxially-grown films. Dewetting of topographically-patterned thin films results in the formation of nanoparticle arrays with spatial and crystallographic orders. Morphological evolution during templated-dewetting of single crystal films occurs in deterministic ways because of geometric and crystallographic constraints, and leads to the formation of regular structures with smaller sizes and more complex shapes than the initial patches. These results will be reviewed in this presentation.