• 한국표면공학회지
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• 제51권6호
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• pp.365-371
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• 2018

1D core-shell nanostructures have attracted great attention due to their enhanced physical and chemical properties. Specifically, oriented single-crystalline $TiO_2$ nanorods or nanowires on a transparent conductive substrate would be more desirable as the building core backbone. However, a facile approach to produce such structure-based hybrids is highly demanded. In this study, a three-step hydrothermal method was developed to grow NiMn-layered double hydroxide-decorated $TiO_2$/carbon core-shell nanorod arrays on transparent conductive fluorine-doped tin oxide (FTO) substrates. XRD, SEM, TEM, XPS and Raman were used to analyze the obtained samples. The in-situ fabricated hybrid nanostructured materials are expected to be applicable for photoelectrode working in water splitting.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제44회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.635-635
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• 2013

We report three-dimensional polycrystalline anatase TiO2 structures (3D a-TiO2) for environmental and bio-medical applications. The 3D a-TiO2 was synthesized without thermal treatment by the growth of rod-like polycrystals on Degussa P25 (P25) via low temperature (< $85^{\circ}C$) modified alkali hydrothermal processing. X-ray diffraction and high-resolution transmission electron microscopic results showed that the rod-like polycrystals of 3D a-TiO2 possessed the highly anatase nanostructures. The photocatalytic activity of 3D a-TiO2 was found to be 2.2 times higher than that of P25. The recyclability of the 3D a-TiO2 was found to be high: the decolorization rate was 94.8% of the initial value after fifteen cycles. In addition, 3D a-TiO2 exhibited excellent antibacterial activities for the sterilization of gram-negative Escherichia coli (E. coli) and gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus). Even at the 10th recycled use, more than 98.4% of E. coli and S. aureus can be killed. These results indicated that 3D a-TiO2 might have utility in several promising applications such as photocatalytic water/air purification and bactericidal agents.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2008년도 International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.993-994
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• 2008

Electrochromic (EC) devices are capable of reversibly changing their optical properties upon charge injection and extraction induced by the external voltage. The characteristics of the EC device, such as low power consumption, high coloration efficiency, and memory effects under open circuit status, make them suitable for use in a variety of applications including smart windows and electronic papers. Coloration due to reduction or oxidation of redox chromophores can be used for EC devices (e-paper), but the switching time is slow (second level). Recently, with increasing demand for the low cost, lightweight flat panel display with paper-like readability (electronic paper), an EC display technology based on dye-modified $TiO_2$ nanoparticle electrode was developed. A well known organic dye molecule, viologen, was adsorbed on the surface of a mesoporous $TiO_2$ nanoparticle film to form the EC electrode. On the other hand, ZnO is a wide bandgap II-VI semiconductor which has been applied in many fields such as UV lasers, field effect transistors and transparent conductors. The bandgap of the bulk ZnO is about 3.37 eV, which is close to that of the $TiO_2$ (3.4 eV). As a traditional transparent conductor, ZnO has excellent electron transport properties, even in ZnO nanoparticle films. In the past few years, one-dimension (1D) nanostructures of ZnO have attracted extensive research interest. In particular, 1D ZnO nanowires renders much better electron transportation capability by providing a direct conduction path for electron transport and greatly reducing the number of grain boundaries. These unique advantages make ZnO nanowires a promising matrix electrode for EC dye molecule loading. ZnO nanowires grow vertically from the substrate and form a dense array (Fig. 1). The ZnO nanowires show regular hexagonal cross section and the average diameter of the ZnO nanowires is about 100 nm. The cross-section image of the ZnO nanowires array (Fig. 1) indicates that the length of the ZnO nanowires is about $6\;{\mu}m$. From one on/off cycle of the ZnO EC cell (Fig. 2). We can see that, the switching time of a ZnO nanowire electrode EC cell with an active area of $1\;{\times}\;1\;cm^2$ is 170 ms and 142 ms for coloration and bleaching, respectively. The coloration and bleaching time is faster compared to the $TiO_2$ mesoporous EC devices with both coloration and bleaching time of about 250 ms for a device with an active area of $2.5\;cm^2$. With further optimization, it is possible that the response time can reach ten(s) of millisecond, i.e. capable of displaying video. Fig. 3 shows a prototype with two different transmittance states. It can be seen that good contrast was obtained. The retention was at least a few hours for these prototypes. Being an oxide, ZnO is oxidation resistant, i.e. it is more durable for field emission cathode. ZnO nanotetropods were also applied to realize the first prototype triode field emission device, making use of scattered surface-conduction electrons for field emission (Fig. 4). The device has a high efficiency (field emitted electron to total electron ratio) of about 60%. With this high efficiency, we were able to fabricate some prototype displays (Fig. 5 showing some alphanumerical symbols). ZnO tetrapods have four legs, which guarantees that there is one leg always pointing upward, even using screen printing method to fabricate the cathode.

• 청정기술
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.306-313
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• 2014

나노다공성 $TiO_2$ 필름은 주로 염료감응형 태양전지의 작동전극으로 사용된다. 지금까지 염료감응형 태양전지의 광전환효율을 높이기 위해 $TiO_2$ 나노구조체에 대한 다양한 연구가 시도되어왔다. 본 연구에서는 수열합성법을 이용하여 FTO glass 위에 루타일 $TiO_2$ 나노로드를 수직적으로 성장시켰고 그 위에 아나타제 $TiO_2$ 필름을 재 합성하였다. 이 새로운 방법은 아나타제 $TiO_2$ 합성시 요구되는 시드층 합성단계를 피할 수 있었다. 밀집한 아나타제 $TiO_2$ 층은 전자생성층으로써 고안되었고 시드층 대신 합성된 루타일 $TiO_2$ 나노로드는 생성된 전자들이 FTO glass로 이동하는 통로역할을 하게 되었다. 전자이동률을 증진시키기 위해 루타일 나노로드에 $TiCl_4$ 수용액을 이용하여 표면 처리하였고 열처리 후 표면 위에 얇은 아나타제 $TiO_2$ 필름을 형성시켰다. 합성된 루타일-아나타제 $TiO_2$ 구조체의 두께는 $4.5-5.0{\mu}m$이고 셀 테스트 결과 3.94%의 광전환효율을 얻게 되었다. 이는 루타일 $TiO_2$ 나노로드 전극과 비교했을 때 광전환효율이 상당히 향상되는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.85-89
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• 2009

Nano-crystalline hydroxyapatite (HAp) films were formed at the Ti surface by a single-step microarc oxidation (MAO), and HAp-zirconia composite (HZC) films were obtained by subsequent chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of zirconia onto the HAp. Through the CVD process, zero- and one-dimensional zirconia nanostructures having tetragonal crystallinity (t-ZrO2) were uniformly distributed and well incorporated into the HAp crystal matrix to form nanoscale composites. In particular, (t-$ZrO_2$) was synthesized at a very low temperature. The HZC films did not show secondary phases such as tricalcium phosphate (TCP) and tetracalcium phosphate (TTCP) at relatively high temperatures. The most likely mechanism for the formation of the t-$ZrO_2$ and the pure HAp at the low processing temperature was proposed to be the diffusion of $Ca^{2+}$ ions. The HZC films showed increasing micro-Vickers hardness values with increases in the t-$ZrO_2$ content. The morphological features and phase compositions of the HZC films showed strong dependence on the time and temperature of the CVD process. Furthermore, they showed enhanced cell proliferation compared to the $TiO_2$ and HAp films most likely due to the surface structure change.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제44회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.669-669
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• 2013

Hierarchical N doped TiO2 nanostructured catalyst with micro, meso and macro porosity have been synthesized by a facile self-formation route using ammonia and titanium isopropoxide precursor. The samples were calcined in different calcination temperature ranging from $300^{\circ}C$ to $800^{\circ}C$ at slow heating rate ($5^{\circ}C$/min) and designated as NHPT-300 to NHPT-800. $TiO_2$ nanostructured catalyst have been characterized by physico-chemical and spectroscopy methods to explore the structural, electronic and optical properties. UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectra confirmed the red shift and band gap narrowing due to the doping of N species in TiO2 nanoporous catalyst. Hierarchical macro porosity with fibrous channel patterning was observed (confirmed from FESEM) and well preserved even after calcination at $800^{\circ}C$, indicating the thermal stability. BET results showed that micro and mesoporosity was lost after $500^{\circ}C$ calcination. The photocatalytic activity has been evaluated for methanol oxidation to formaldehyde in visible light. The enhanced photocatalytic activity is attributed to combined synergetic effect of N doping for visible light absorption, micro and mesoporosity for increase of effective surface area and light harvestation, and hierarchical macroporous fibrous structure for multiple reflection and effective charge transfer.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.699-704
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• 2018

일차원 나노구조물은 양자 갇힘 효과 및 나노와이어가 갖는 체적 대비 높은 표면적 비에 기인하는 독특한 전기적, 광학적, 광전기적, 전기화학적 특성으로 인하여 많은 주목을 받아왔다. 특히 수직으로 성장된 나노와이어는 체적 대비 높은 표면적 비의 특성을 나타낸다. VLS(Vapor-Liquid-Soild) 공정은 나노구조물의 성장 과정에서 자기정렬 효과 때문에 더욱 주목을 받는다. 본 연구에서는 두 영역 열화학 기상증착법을 이용하여 Si\$SiO_2$(300 nm)\Pt 기판 위에 수직으로 정렬된 실리콘 옥사이드 나노기둥을 VLS 공정으로 성장시켰다. 성장된 실리콘 옥사이드 나노기둥의 형상과 결정학적 특성을 주사전자현미경 및 투과전자현미경으로 분석하였다. 그 결과 성장된 실리콘 옥사이드 나노기둥의 지름과 길이는 촉매 박막의 두께에 따라 변하였다. 실리콘 옥사이드 나노 기둥의 몸체는 비정질 상을 나타내었으며, Si과 O로 구성되어 있었다. 또한 성장된 실리콘 옥사이드 나노 기둥의 머리는 결정성을 나타내었으며, Si, O, Pt 및 Ti으로 구성되어 있었다. 실리콘 옥사이드 나노 기둥의 수직 정렬은 촉매물질인 Pt/Ti 합금의 결정성 정렬 선호에 기인하는 것으로 판단되며, 수직 성장된 실리콘 옥사이드 나노기둥은 기능성 나노소재로 활용이 가능할 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.42-48
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• 2022

The shortage of available freshwater is a major global issue worldwide and an increasing demand for clean water requires efficient water purification strategies. Here we describe a method to drastically increase the efficiency of a microreactor for photocatalytic water purification. To find out how the shape of the catalyst affects water purification, nanostructured catalysts of different structures, such as dense film, nanorod, and nanohelix, are prepared and their water purification characteristics are analyzed. Compared to the flat catalyst, the nanostructured catalyst showed a distinct ability in its pollutant degradation, but the detailed structural variation does not significantly affect the water purification. To further increase efficiency, we apply a micromixer to nanorod-based microreactor, which allows even enhanced mass transfer. This enables the solution of the water purification problem and greatly contributes to the industries where the efficiency of photocatalytic activity has attracted extensive interest.

• 융합정보논문지
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.123-128
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• 2017

나노구조를 갖는 물질들은 나노구조물이 갖는 고유의 체적 대비 높은 표면적 비와 양자 갇힘 효과에 기인하는 독특한 전기적, 광학적, 광전기적, 자기적 특성으로 인하여 많은 주목을 받아왔다. 열화학 기상 증착 공정은 나노 구조물의 성장과정에서 다양한 구조를 갖는 나노소재의 합성 능력 때문에 더욱 주목을 받아왔다. 본 연구에서는 두 영역 열화학 기상 증착법과 소스 물질 $TiO_2$ 파우더를 이용하여 VLS 공정으로 Si\$SiO_2$(300 nm)\Pt(5~40 nm) 기판 위에 실리콘 옥사이드 나노와이어를 성장시켰다. 성장된 실리콘 옥사이드 나노와이어의 형상과 결정학적 특성을 전계방출 주사전자현미경과 투과전자현미경으로 분석하였다. 분석결과, 성장된 실리콘 옥사이드 나노와이어의 형상인 지름과 길이는 촉매 박막의 두께에 의존하여 다른 모양을 나타내었다. 또한 성장된 실리콘 옥사이드 나노와이어는 비정질 상을 갖는 것으로 분석되었다.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 2011년도 추계학술발표대회
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• pp.1.1-1.1
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• 2011

Electrospinning has known to be very effective tool for production of versatile one-dimensional (1D) nanostructured materials such as nanofibers, nanorod, and nanotubes and for easily assembly to two-, three-dimensional(2D, 3D) nanostructures such as thin film, membrane, and nonwoven web, etc. We have studied on the electrospinning technology for novel energy storage and conversion materials such as advanced separator, dye sensitized solar cell, supercapacitor, etc. High heat-resistive nanofibrous membrane as a new separator for future lithium ion polymer battery was prepared by electrospinning of PVdF based composite solution. The novel nanofibrous composite nonwovens have tensile strength of above 50 MPa and modulus of above 1.3 GPa. The internal structure of the electrospun composite nanofiber with a diameter of few hundreds nanometer were composed of core-shell nanostructure. And also electrospun $TiO_2$ nanorod/nanosphere based dye-sensitized solar cells with high efficiency are successfully prepared. Some battery performance will be introduced.