• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.431-434
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• 2005

To investigate the dependences of the absorption spectrum and electronic structure properties on the ZnO nano-particle size, ZnO nanocrystals were synthesized by a sol-gel method. The absorption onset peak exhibits a systematic blue-shift with decreasing particle size due to the quantum confinement effect, as well as, with decreasing $Zn^{2+}$ concentration. The increase of particle size is mainly controlled by coarsening and aggregation step during the nucleation and growth of ZnO nano-particles. The onset absorption spectrum of ZnO colloids changes from 310 to 355 nm as $Zn^{2+}$ concentration increases from 0.01 to 0.1 mole. The average particle size as a function of aging- time can be determined from the absorption spectra. The freshly prepared nanocrystal size was about 2.8nm.

• Biomedical Science Letters
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.41-47
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• 2013

Pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) have lots of potential in biomedical sciences owing to its potential to differentiate into any kind of cells in the body. However, it is still a challenge to culture PSCs on a large scale for application to regenerative medicine. Herein, we introduce a synthetic polymer that enables large-scale suspension culture of human PSCs. By employing suspension culture, it became unnecessary to use conventional substrata such as mouse embryonic fibroblast (MEF) or Matrigel$^{TM}$, which are believed to be main causative sources of xenogeneic contamination in cultured human PSCs in vitro. Human PSCs were cultured in the medium in which elastin-like polypeptide (ELP) dissolved. The ELP in the medium became harden as temperature increases by transforming the medium into a semi-solid gel that supported growth of human PSCs in suspension. Gel-sol transition temperature of ELP can be adjusted by modifying the peptide sequence in which 5 amino acids, Val-Pro-Gly-Xaa-Gly, repeated sequentially. We constructed 3D suspension media having transition temperature around $33{\sim}35^{\circ}C$ using an ELP consisted of 40, 60, or 80 repeats of a monomer, which was Val-Pro-Gly-Val-Gly. Among the ELPs, ELP80 was chosen as the best ELP to support growth of human PSCs in suspension culture. This result suggests that the ELP80 can be a medium component for culturing human PSCs in large-scale.

• Proceedings of the Korea Association of Crystal Growth Conference
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• 1996.06b
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• pp.29-53
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• 1996

다공성 실리카 게 분말은 저밀도, 고비표면적의 특성을 가지며 물리적, 화학적 성질이 우수하여 필름의 점착방지제, 페인트의 소광제, 맥주의 흡착제, 촉매의 담지체등 산업전반에 걸쳐 여러용도로 사용되고 있다. 이러한 다공성 실리카 겔 분말은 고상법, 기상법, 액상법등으로 제조할 수 있으며, 이 중에서 sodium silicate를 원료로 하는 액상공정은 다공성의 제어가 용이하고, 공정이 간단하며, 고순도의 균질한 실리카를 얻을 수 있는 방법으로 많이 사용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 액상법(sol-gel method)를 사용하여 점착방지제, 소광제 등으로 사용되는 다공성 실리카 겔 미분말의 개발에 초점을 두어 연구하였다. 그리고, 겔 분말의 다공성 제어를 위하여 공정 각 단계에서의 겔 내부의 구조의 변화에 대한 연구와 함께 수화겔의 숙성이 기공특성에 미치는 영향, 건조조건의 기공특성에 대한 영향 등을 살펴보았다. 다공성 실리카 겔 미분말은 다음과 같은 공정에 의해 제조되었다. sodium silicate를 황산과 반응시켜 겔화하고 추가의 황산을 투입하여 미반응분의 Na를 제거한 후 pH 7이상의 알카리 영역에서 숙성하여 다공성을 지닌 실리카 수화겔을 제조하였다. 수화겔의 탈수, 세척, 건조 공정을 거쳐 건조겔을 제조하고, 1-20$\mu\textrm{m}$의 크기로 분쇄하여 최종 제품을 얻을 수 있었다. 최종 다공성 실리카 겔 분말은 비표면적 200-700$m^2$/g, 기공부피 0.5-2.5cc/g, 평균 입경 3-5$\mu\textrm{m}$, 백색도 95% 이상의 물성을 보였다. sodium silicate와 황산의 겔화 반응에 의해 생성된 수화겔은 수 nm크기의 일차입자들의 연속적인 network로이루어져 있으며, 일차입자크기가 너무 작기 때문에 내부의 기공들은 별로 존재하지 않는 상태이다. 2차 주가황산 투입에 의해 미반응의 알카리 이온들을 중화, 제거시킬 수 있으며, 겔의 다공성을 좌우하는 숙성단계에서 숙성 pH, 온도, 시간등의 인자에 의해 수화겔의 기공특성을 제어할 수 있다. pH 7이상에서 실리카의 용해도가 크고, 용해도의 입자크기 의존성이 크므로, 일자입자는 Ostwald-ripening에 의해 계속 성장할 수 있으며, 이때, 입자의 성장은 숙성 온도와 시간에 의존한다. 탈수, 세척공정에 의해 가용성 염인 Na2SO4를 제거하고, 건조조건을 변화시킴으로써 기공부피를 증가시키는 것이 가능하였으며, Fast drying을 사용하여 점착방지제에 적합한 기공부피를 갖는 실리카 건조겔을 제조할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.28.1-28.1
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• 2009

The superior properties of ZnO such as high exciton binding energy, high thermal and chemical stability, low growth temperature and possibility of wet etching process in ZnO have great interest for applications ranging from optoelectronics to chemical sensor. Particularly, vertically well-aligned ZnO nanorods on large areas with good optical and structural properties are of special interest for the fabrication of electronic and optical nanodevices. Currently, low-dimensional ZnO is synthesized by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), thermal evaporation, and sol.gel growth. Recently, our group has been reported about achievement the growth of Ga-doped ZnO nanorods using ZnO seed layer on p-type Si substrate by RF magnetron sputtering system at high rf power and high growth temperature. However, the crystallinity of nanorods deteriorates due to lattice mismatch between nanorods and Si substrate. Also, in the growth of oxide using sputtering, the oxygen flow ratio relative to argon gas flow is an important growth parameter and significantly affects the structural properties. In this study, Phosphorus (P) doped ZnO nanorods were grown on c-sapphire substrates without seed layer by radio frequency magnetron sputtering with various argon/oxygen gas ratios. The layer change films into nanorods with decreasing oxygen partial pressure. The diameter and length of vertically well-aligned on the c-sapphire substrate are in the range of 51-103 nm and about 725 nm, respectively. The photoluminescence spectra of the nanorods are dominated by intense near band-edge emission with weak deep-level emission.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.245-245
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• 2009

l-D nanostructured materials have much more attention because of their outstanding properties and wide applicability in device fabrication. Copper oxide(CuO) has been realized as a p-type metal oxide semiconductor with narrow band gap of 1.2 -1.5eV. Copper oxide nanostructures can be synthesized by various growth method such as oxidation reaction, thermal evaporation thermal decomposition, sol-gel. and Mostly CuO nanowire prepared on the Cu substrate such as Copper foil, grid, plate. In this study, CuO NWs were grown by thermal oxidation (at various temperatures in air (1 atm)) of Cu metal deposited on CuO (20nm)/$SiO_2$(250nm)/Si. A 20nm-thick CuO layer was used as an adhesion layer between Cu metal and $SiO_2$

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.570-573
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• 1999

Hydroxyapatite films were prepared on Si(100) substrates by using a sol-gel method with calcium nitrate and phosphoric acid as starting materials. Precursor sols were spin-coated onto the substrates and prefired at $500^{\circ}C$ for 10 min in air. Formation of the hydroxypatite structure was confirmed in the sample annealed at $500^{\circ}C$ by the X-ray diffraction $\theta$-2$\theta$ scans and a tricalcium phosphate phase was observed in the samples annealed at both temperature regions of $500^{\circ}C$~$700^{\circ}C$ and $900^{\circ}C$. From the results of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, the change of a carbon content and improvement of crystallinity have been discussed as a function of increase of annealing temperature.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.280-284
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• 2015

Au doped $TiO_2$ nanoparticles have been synthesized using a reverse micelle technique combined with metal alkoxide hydrolysis and condensation. Au doped $TiO_2$ was coated with glass substrate. The size of the particles and thickness of the coating can be controlled by manipulating the relative rates of the hydrolysis and condensation reaction of TTIP within the micro-emulsion. The average size of synthesized Au doped $TiO_2$ nanoparticle was about in the size range of 15 to 25 nm and the Au particles formed mainly the range of 2 to 10 nm in diameter. The effect of synthesis parameters, such as the molar ratio of water to TTIP and the molar ratio of water to surfactant, are discussed. The synthesized nanopaticles were coated on glass substrate by a spin coating process. The thickness of thin film was about 80 nm. The degradation of MB on a $TiO_2$ thin film was enhanced over 20 % efficiency by the incorporation of Au.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.176-180
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• 2006

[ $(Na_{0.5}Bi_{0.5})TiO_3$ ][NBT] thin films were prepared on a highly (100) oriented $LaNiO_3[LNO]$ by sol-gel process. X-ray diffraction patterns of the NBT films annealed above $600^{\circ}C$ for 5 minutes have confirmed a highly (100) oriented growth and pseudocubic structure (a=3.884${\AA}$). The (l00) orientation factor increased from 90 to $99\%$ with increasing soaking time from 5 to 60 minutes at $600^{\circ}C$. The NBT films ($600^{\circ}C$/5 min,) have a flat and dense microstructure with large columnar grains, and their grain size are about 44 nm. The Au/NBT/LNO/Si hetero structure sample show a ferroelectric properties.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.268-276
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• 2009

In this study, activated carbon (AC) was treated with ferric ion by a sol-gel method. The compound (Fe-AC) was employed for the preparation of Fe-activated carbon/$TiO_2$, (Fe-AC/$TiO_2$) composites. The prepared Fe-AC/$TiO_2$ composites were characterized with surface properties, structural crystallinity, elemental identification and photocatalytic activity. The SEM results showed that ferric compounds and titanium dioxide were fixed onto the AC surfaces. The XRD results showed that Fe-AC/$TiO_2$ composites mostly contained anatase phase. EDX showed the presence of C, O, and Ti with Fe peaks in all samples. Its photocatalytic degradation effect was evaluated with the degradation behavior of the methylene blue (MB) solution. MB degradation could be attributed to the synergetic effects of adsorption, photo-degradation of $TiO_2$ and photo-Fenton of Fe component. The degradation rate for this photocatalysis was evaluated as a function of the concentration of the dye, the amount of $TiO_2$ and the pH. Photocataytic activity is good at activity pH.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.553-560
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• 1997

A fine $\alpha$-Al2O3 powder was prepared by sol-gel process for membrane application. And it was carried out by adding 1.5wt% $\alpha$-Al2O3 powders(mean size : 87 nm) as seeds to the prepared sols and by controlling the heating schedule (the heating rate and the soaking time) to prevent the microstructural change, which occured during $\theta$-to $\alpha$Al2O3 phase transformation. The seeded $\alpha$-Al2O3 particles acted as the heterogeneous nucleation sites for the $\alpha$-Al2O3 nucleation during the transformation of $\theta$- to $\alpha$-Al2O3 and resulted in increasing the driving force of phase transformation to activate the formation of $\alpha$-Al2O3 phase at 82$0^{\circ}C$. By $\alpha$-Al2O3 seeding and controlling of heating condition the phase transformation of $\theta$- to $\alpha$-Al2O3 was accomplished at low temperature and the grain growth process was depressed. Therefore, the unsupported membrane could be fabricated in $\alpha$-Al2O3 . The average diameter of pores in the fabricated membrane was 7 nm and the porosity was 47%.