• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.269-276
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• 2005

Zn, Bi 와 V 금속이온 전구체를 사용하여 모노클리닉 결정구조를 갖는 신규 ZnBiVO4 광촉매를 손쉽게 합성 할 수 있는 방법을 개발하였다. 합성된 $ZnBiVO_4$ 광촉매는 XRD 과 FESEM등을 이용하여 미세구조를 분석하였으며, 분석결과 본 삼성분계 금속산화물 반도체 광촉매는 모노클리닉 결정구조를 갖는 것을 알 수 있었다. 저온 수용액방법에 의해 손쉽게 나노 구조를 갖는 $ZnBiVO_4$가 제조되었으며, 그 광촉매의 최소 입자크기는 20-30 nm 이다. $ZnBiVO_4$ 광촉매는 UV-visible DRS (diffuse reflectance spectroscopy)로 그 띠간격(band gap)을 측정하였으며, FT-IR을 사용하여 구조 및 물질 상의 순도를 확인하였다. 그리고 $H_2S$를 광분해하여 수소를 발생하는($122ml/hr{\cdot}g$) 우수한 광촉매 활성을 보여 주었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.08a
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• pp.160-160
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• 2012

산화아연, 산화니켈, 산화망간 등 금속산화물은 전기적, 광학적 및 화학적 특성이 우수하여 태양전지, 연료전지, 광촉매, 가스센싱 등 다양한 분야에 폭 넓게 활용되고 있다. 또한, 그 성장방법에 따라 다양한 형태와 크기를 제어할 수 있으며 각각의 응용되는 분야에서 요구되는 나노구조를 최적화할 수 있는 장점을 갖고 있다. 그 중, 전기화학증착법(electrochemical deposition method)은 기존의 제작방법에 비해서 간단한 공정과정과 저온성장이 가능하기 때문에 많이 사용하고 있으며, 씨드(seed)층의 형성을 통해서 원하고자하는 부분에 성장시킬 수 있다. 한편, 나노기술의 발전과 함께 IT기술이 일상생활에 밀접해지면서 구부리거나 휴대 또는 입을 수 있는 다양한 전자 및 광전자 소자의 기술 개발이 활발하게 이루어지고 있는데, 이와 더불어 다양한 금속산화물 여러 가지 플렉서블 기판에서의 나노구조의 성장 및 제어에 대한 연구가 시도되고 있다. 본 연구에서는, 전기화학증착법을 이용하여 전도성 섬유와 ITO/PET 기판을 포함한 다양한 플렉서블 기판에 산화아연, 산화니켈, 산화망간의 나노구조물을 제작하였다. 실험을 위해, 용액의 농도, 시간, 인가전압을 바꿔가면서 성장조건을 달리하여 다양한 형태와 크기의 금속산화물의 나노복합구조를 형성 및 제어를 할 수 있었다. 또한, 스퍼터링 또는 스핀코팅을 이용하여 다양한 유연기판에 씨드층을 형성함으로써 금속산화물 나노구조를 균일하고 조밀하게 성장시킬 수 있었다. 플렉서블 광전소자 응용을 위해 다양한 형태로 제작된 샘플의 결정구조와 형태, 광학적 특성, 표면특성과 같은 물리적 특성을 조사하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.191-191
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• 2013

금속 산화물 촉매 입자는 특정한 파장에 의해서 활성화되면서 전자-정공 쌍을 생성한다. 광촉매원리를 이용하면 전자 정공 제공을 통해 기존의 물질 주위에 활성 라디칼을 생성하고 물질의 특성을 변화시킬 수 있다. 이런 독특한 특성을 이용한 금속산화물의 다양한 연구가 물리, 화학, 재료, 생명 분야에서 이루어지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 광촉매 입자와 대기압 플라즈마와의 특성을 활용하여 발생되는 물리적 특성과 재료적인 특성을 이용한 응용 연구에 대한 내용을 다루고 있다. 특히 광촉매로 가장 많이 사용되는 $TiO_2$가 $200^{\circ}C$ 이하 저온 플라즈마 방전가스에 의해 상변화되는 현상을 다루고 이에 대한 구체적인 재료 분석을 실시 하였다. 즉, 저온의 알곤과 알곤/산소 대기압 플라즈마에 의해 처리된 $TiO_2$의 결정성 변화에 대해서 조사하였고 이를 이용하여 유사 작용제의 분해에 대한 연구를 하였다. 신경작용제(VX: nerve agent)의 유사작용제인 말라치온(Malathion)뿐만 아니라 셀룰로우즈(cellulose) 계의 복잡한 구조의 화학유기물 등을 대기압 플라즈마를 이용해 분해시킬 수 있음을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구에서는 대기압 플라즈마와 금속산화물의 결정성 변화에 대한 분석을 통해 기능성화된 촉매입자를 이용한 효과적인 화학물질의 분해를 소개하고, 대기압 플라즈마의 나노 소재기술로의 높은 응용가능성도 함께 살펴보았다.

• Clean Technology
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.285-292
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• 2022

Adsorption tower systems based on activated carbon adsorption towers have mainly been employed to reduce the emission of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), a major cause of air pollution. However, the activated carbon currently used in these systems has a short lifespan and thus requires frequent replacement. An approach to overcome this shortcoming could be to develop metal oxide photocatalysis-activated carbon composites capable of degrading VOCs by simultaneously utilizing photocatalytic activation and powerful adsorption by activated carbon. TiO₂ has primarily been used as a metal oxide photocatalyst, but it has low economic efficiency due to its high cost. In this study, ZnO particles were synthesized as a photocatalyst due to their relatively low cost. Silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) were deposited on the ZnO surface to compensate for the photocatalytic deactivation that arises from the wide band gap of ZnO. A microfluidic process was used to synthesize ZnO particles and Ag NPs in separate reactors and the solutions were continuously supplied with a pack bed reactor loaded with activated carbon powder. This microfluidic-assisted pack bed reactor efficiently prepared a Ag-ZnO-activated carbon composite for VOC removal. Analysis confirmed that Ag-ZnO photocatalytic particles were successfully deposited on the surface of the activated carbon. Conducting a toluene gasbag test and adsorption breakpoint test demonstrated that the composite had a more efficient removal performance than pure activated carbon. The process proposed in this study efficiently produces photocatalysis-activated carbon composites and may offer the potential for scalable production of VOC removal composites.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.55 no.5
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• pp.718-722
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• 2017

We have investigated the photocatalytic activity for the decomposition of methyl orange on the pure $LaCoO_3$ and metal ion doped $LaCoO_3$ perovskite-typeoxides prepared using microwave process. In the case of pure $LaCoO_3$ and cesium ion doped $LaCoO_3$ catalysts, the formation of the perovskite crystalline phase was confirmed regardless of the preparation method. From the results of UV-Vis DRS, the pure $LaCoO_3$ and cesium ion doped $LaCoO_3$ catalysts have the similar absorption spectrum up to visible region. The chemisorbed oxygen plays an important role on the photocatalytic decomposition of methyl orange and the higher the contents of chemisorbed oxygen, the better performance of photocatalyst.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.299-307
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• 2019

Photocatalysis is an environment friendly technique for degrading organic dyes in water. Tungsten oxide is becoming an active area of research in photocatalysis nanomaterials for having a smaller bandgap than the previously favored titanium dioxide. Synthesis of hierarchical structures, doping platinum (Pt), coupling with nanocomposites or other semiconductors are investigated as valid methods of improving the photocatalytic degradation efficiency. These impact the reaction by creating a redshift in the wavelength of light used, effecting charge transfer, and the formation/recombination of electron-hole pairs. Each of the methods mentioned above are investigated in terms of synthesis and photocatalytic efficiency, with the simplest being modification on the morphology of tungsten oxide, since it does not need synthesis of other materials, and the most efficient in photocatalytic degradation being complex coupling of metal oxides and carbon composites. The photocatalysis technology can be incorporated with water purification membrane by modularization process and applied to advanced water treatment system.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.55-61
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• 2006

신규 $Nb_2Zr_6O_{17-x}N_x$ 광촉매를 고상합성법처리(solid state synthesis) 후 암모니아가스($NH_3$)에 의한 기상처리법(ammonolysis)으로 합성하였다. 합성된 신규 광촉매 및 이를 다시 Pt 및 $RuO_2$를 도핑 하여 $H_2S$를 광분해하여 수소를 발생 실험을 수행하였다. 이 신규 oxynitrid계 광촉매는 가시광하에서 $H_2S$를 광분해하여 수소를 발생하는(Quantum yield = 13.5 %) 우수한 광촉매 활성을 보여주었다.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.52 no.5
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• pp.667-671
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• 2014

In this study, we suggest a facile method to control conditions of single component independently when preparing consisting two-component metal oxides nanofiber by simply dispersing nanoparticles in precursor solution. The well dispersed $SiO_2$ nanoparticles in $TiO_2$ nanofibers were successfully synthesized through a simple electrospinning process. The as-synthesized nanodfibers were investigated via FE-SEM, XRD and EDS for structural studies, furthermore, the analysis of UV-VIS and photocatalytic activity were carried out for demonstrate the effect of $SiO_2$ nanoparticles dispersed in $TiO_2$ nanofibers. As a result, $TiO_2$ nanofibres dispersed with $SiO_2$ nanoparticles have enhanced photocatalytic activity than that of $TiO_2$ nanofibres only. In this strategy, the introduction of $SiO_2$ nanoparticles in $TiO_2$ nanofibers were attribute to enlarge absorption in the visible region (380~440 nm). Additionally, $Br{\o}nsted$ acid sites generated in each metal oxide of Ti and Si increase OH radicals efficiently as well as it limit recombination loss by holding photogenerated electrons for high efficient photocatalytic activity.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.50 no.3
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• pp.215-224
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• 2017

Arsenic (As) is known to be the most toxic element and frequently detected in groundwater environment. Inorganic As exists as arsenite [As(III)] and arsenate [As(V)] in reduced and oxidized environments, respectively. It has been reported that the toxicity of arsenite is much higher than that of arsenate and furthermore arsenite shows relatively higher mobility in aqueous environments. For this reason, there have been numerous researches on the process for oxidation of arsenite to arsenate to reduce the toxicity of arsenic. In particular, photooxidation has been considered to be simple, economical, and efficient to attain such goal. This study was conducted to evaluate the applicability of naturally-occurring goethite as a photocatalyst to substitute for $TiO_2$ which has been mostly used in the photooxidation processes so far. In addition, the effects of several factors on the overall performance of arsenite photocatalytic oxidation process were evaluated. The results show that the efficiency of the process was affected by total concentration of dissolved cations rather than by the kind of those cations and also the relatively higher pH conditions seemed to be more favorable to the process. In the case of coexistence of arsenite and arsenate, the removal tendency by adsorption onto goethite appeared to be different between arsenite and arsenate due to their different affinities with goethite, but any effect on the photocatalytic oxidation of arsenite was not observed. In terms of effect of humic acid on the process, it is likely that the higher concentration of humic acid reduced the overall performance of the arsenite photocatalytic oxidation as a result of competing interaction of activated oxygen species, such as hydroxyl and superoxide radicals, with arsenite and humic acid. In addition, it is revealed that the injection of oxygen gas improved the process because oxygen contributes to arsenite oxidation as an electron acceptor. Based on the results of the study, consequently, the photocatalytic oxidation of aqueous arsenite using goethite seems to be greatly feasible with the optimization of process.

• Membrane Journal
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.33-42
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• 2022

Growing industrialization leads to severe water pollution. Organic effluents from pharmaceuticals and textile industries released in wastewater adversely affect the environment and human health. Presence of antibiotics used for antibacterial treatment in wastewater leads to the growth of drug resistance bacteria, which is very harmful for human being. Various small organic molecules are used for the preparation of organic dye molecules in the textile industries. These molecules hardly degrade, which is present in the wastewater effluents from printing and dyeing industries. In order to address these problems, photoactive catalyst is embedded in the membrane and wastewater are passed through it. Through this process, organic molecules are photodegraded and at the same time, the degraded compounds are separated by the membrane. Titanium dioxide (TiO₂) is a semiconductor which behave as excellent photocatalyst. Photocatalytic ability is enhanced by the making its composite with other transition metal oxide and incorporated into polymeric membrane. In this review, the degradation of dye and drug molecules by photocatalytic membrane are discussed.