• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.94-98
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• 2011

Poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate), PHEMA, hybrid gels containing Pluronic and acrylic acid (AAc) were prepared as new biocompatible and stimuli-responsive hydrogels by photo-polymerization technique. The prepared hybrid gel showed reversible, temperature-responsive swelling behavior due to the presence of Pluronic component, which underwent sol-gel transition at an elevated temperature to cause gel shrinkage. The hydrogel also exhibited increased swelling degrees and pH-sensitivity due to the AAc component with ionizable carboxylic acid groups. The microporous gel morphology and its changes upon stimuli was observed by scanning electron microscopy.

• Journal of Korea Foresty Energy
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.62-72
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• 2001

To elucidate the behaviors of alkali swelllng of woods. the dimensional change in cross section of cell elements of four major Korean woods during alkali swelling were examined by an optical microscory, an imaging analysis method and an X-ray diffrartion During alkali swelling, tracheid diameter of Larix kaempferi wood showed greater swelling property than that of Pinus koraiensis wood, and the cell wall swelled highly over 10% sodium hydroxide solution treatment. The radial diameter of vessel elements in earlywood shrunk, but it swelled slightly in tangential direction. When treated with 5% NaOH, the wall thickness of wood fiber increased about three times over the original one. The thickness of cell wall in all elements and the diameter of wood fiber and tracheid showed almost isotropic shrinkage. The diameter of cell elements during the mercerization process decreased, but cell wall thickness Increased. Crystal transformation of cellulose in wood was not occurred by alkali treatments. but relative crystallinity and crystallite width of the woods increased slightly. Consequently, it was demonstrated that the swelling properties of woods were dependant on wood species, cell elements and alkali concentration.

• Proceedings of the Korean Fiber Society Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.345-346
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• 2003

폴리아크릴로니트릴을 NaOH로 가수분해시키면 carboxylate anion과 carboxamide기가 생성되며, 물을 흡수할 경우 sodium carboxylate기의 해리로 팽윤이 크게 일어나므로 고흡수성을 지니게 된다[l]. 일반적으로 섬유가 팽윤을 하면 수축하며, 가수분해된 폴리아크릴로니트릴 섬유는 흡수되는 물 속의 염의 농도 또는 pH에 따라 팽윤도가 다르기 때문에 가수분해된 시간과 pH조건 변화에 따라서 수축하는 정도가 다르다. 과거의 연구결과에 의하면 아크릴 섬유는 2M HCI에서 최소의 길이로 수축하며, 2M NaOH에서 최대의 길이가 나타난다고 하였다[2]. (중략)

• Journal of Korea Foresty Energy
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.70-77
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• 1999

The behaviors of alkali swelling in four major Korean woods were examined as a function of concentration cf alkali solution. Density of alkali-treated woods increased highly with increasing alkali concentration in both softwoods and hardwoods. Wood samples swelled in dimension during alkali swelling, and thereafter they shrank highly by water washing and air drying. The air-dried wood samples after alkali treatment showed almost isotropic shrinkage in tangential and radial direction.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.514-521
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• 2010

A new one-shot process was employed to fabricate proton exchange membranes (PEMs) over conventional solvent-casting process. Here, PEMs containing nano-dispersed silica nanoparticles were fabricated using one-shot process similar to the bulk-molding compounds (BMC). Different components such as reactive dispersant, urethane acrylate nonionmer (UAN), styrene, styrene sulfuric acid and silica nano particles were dissolved in a single solvent dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) followed by copolymerization within a mold in the presence of radical initiator. We have successfully studied the water-swelling and proton conductivity of obtained nanocomposite membranes which are strongly depended on the surface property of dispersed silica nano particles. In case of dispersion of hydrophilic silica nanoparticles, the nanocomposite membranes exhibited an increase in water-swelling and a decrease in methanol permeability with almost unchanged proton conductivity compared to neat polymeric membrane. The reverse observations were achieved for hydrophobic silica nanoparticles. Hence, hydrophilic and hydrophobic silica nanoparticles were effectively dispersed in hydrophilic and hydrophobic medium respectively. Hydrophobic silica nanoparticles dispersed in hydrophobic domains of PEMs largely suppressed swelling of hydrophilic domains by absorbing water without interrupting proton conduction occurred in hydrophilic membrane. Consequently, proton conductivity and water-swelling could be freely controlled by simply dispersing silica nanopartilces within the membrane.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Dyers and Finishers Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.16-16
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• 2011

기존의 얇고 가벼운 기능성 투습방수 film은 각종 등산복이나 육해공군전투복, 경찰복, 소방복 등에 폭넓게 이용되고 있다. 그러나 현재의 이런 제품들은 뛰어난 투습방수성을 나타내지만 눈, 비, 이슬 등과 같은 수분과 만날 경우 필름 고분자 구조의 Swelling으로 표면의 불규칙한 요철현상이 생기며, 이는 제품의 불량으로 문제시 되고 있다. Swelling이 생기지 않는 친수성 Urethane film이 스키복으로 많이 상용되고 있기는 하지만 두께가 두껍고 무거워서 움직임이 불편한 단점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 문제점들을 보완하여 얇고 가벼운 기능성 비팽윤 투습 방수 필름을 제조하였다. 제조된 비팽윤 투습 방수 필름제품은 기존의 투습 방수 필름과도 다른 독특한 Bead concrete 구조를 형성하고 있으며, 미세입자들이 서로 접합하여 우수한 투습성을 발현하며, 기저층의 모노리스 멤브레인(Monolithic film)의 적층구조로서 형성되어 있어 강도 및 투습도 등의 성능이 제어되고, 수분 흡수에 따른 팽윤현상이 발생하지 않는다.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.418-430
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• 2000

A new hydroxylpropyl chitosan (HPCTO) capable of forming both thermotropic and lyotropic liquid crystalline phases was synthesized by reaction of alkali chitosan with propylene oxide and its solid films cross-linked with glyoxal were prepared by casting the liquid crystalline solution in methanol. The thermal and swelling properties of the cross-linked films were investigated. The films displayed fingerprint patterns characteristic of cholesteric liquid-crystalline phase, and their pitches increased with increasing temperature and cross-linker concentration. The cross-linked samples exhibited an anisotropic swelling in both water and methanol, suggesting that the two-dimensional cross-linking preferentially performs between HPCTO molecules. The degree of anisotropy highly depended on the solvent, but hardly on the cross-linker concentration investigated.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.349-355
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• 2007

Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-acrylonitrile) [P(NIPAAm-co-AN)] copolymers with AN content of up to 10 mol% and their hydrogels were synthesized using water as a reaction medium, and the effects of AN unit incorporation on the critical gel transition temperature(CGTT) and swelling behaviors of the hydrogels were investigated. The CGTT of the copolymer hydrogel was $30{\sim}32\;^{\circ}C$, decreasing with increasing AN content. Below CGTT, swelling rate and equilibrium swelling ratio of the copolymer hydrogel decreased with increasing AN content. On the other hand, it exhibited faster deswelling and lower equilibrium deswelling ratio with increasing AN content above CGTT.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07c
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• pp.1363-1363
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• 2006

PPLP를 절연지로 사용하는 OF 케이블 절연지의 팽윤 특성은 전력 케이블 절연특성에 크게 영향을 줄 뿐만 아니라, 케이블 제조나 운전시에도 영향을 미치므로 매우 중요한 설계 관리 요소이다. 특히 PPLP 케이블 제조시 PPLP의 팽윤 정도에 따라 지권장력의 설정이 달라지므로 반드시 고려해야만 한다. 기존의 일반적인 Kraft지를 절연지로 사용하는 OF 케이블의 경우는 팽윤 현상이 거의 없어 지권장력 설정시 이를 고려하지 않아도 되지만, PPLP는 이를 고려하지 않고 지권을 찬다면 케이블 제조 후 절연지의 끊어짐 현상, 절연층의 butt-gap 현상 둥 Polypropylene laminated paper를 절연지로 사용하는 케이블의 경우, 팽윤 현상의 발생으로 인해 절연파괴가 일어날 수 있다. 그러나 PPLP 절연지를 사용하는 이유는 케이블의 장거리 운전시 기존 Kraft지를 사용했을 때 보다 유전손실이 더 개선될 뿐만 아니라 절연체의 두께를 저감하여 포설이 용이하기 때문이다. 이에 본 논문에서는 PPLP에서 고분자의 팽윤이 일어나는 정도에 따라 결정화도의 변화와 전기적인 성능(체적저항, AC 파괴)과의 연관성을 검토하였다.

• Textile Coloration and Finishing
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.37-43
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• 1994

Commercial Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) filaments were treated in solvents mixtures such as benzyl alcohol/perchloroethylene(BA/PER), benzyl alcohol/trichloroethylene(BA/TRI), benzyl alcohol/ethylene chloride(BA/EC), metha nol/perchloroethylene(ME/PER), and methanol/trichloroethyle(ME/TRI). Swelling of PET in solvent mixtures showed rapidly in the middle range of mixture ratio. Contribution of swelling of each component to total swelling of binary mixtures with increasing treated time was generally showed in proportion to the mixture ratio of the each component in dependence of the extend of swelling.