• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.237-245
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• 1997

A DEAE-chitin was prepared with DEAE HCl in an aqueous alkali-chitin solution. The resulting DEAE-chitin exhibited a highly improved affinity to water and organic solvents, It was N-deacetylated by heating in aqueous 10% sodium hydroxide containing sodium borohydride for 9h at $80^{\circ}C$ to produce DEAE-chitosan. These conditions were milder than those for the N-deacetylation of chitin. In order to increase its cationic character, the DEAE-chitin was treated with ethyl halide to give TEAE-chitin. The structural changes in the chitin derivatives were confirmed by using both FT-IR and $^1H$ NMR, and their flocculating behavior, in kaoline suspension showed the optimum property at a weak alkaline pH and 8 ppm concentration of resin conditions.

• Journal of the Korea Organic Resources Recycling Association
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.50-56
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• 2014

Conventional coagulation-gravity settling processes in heavy metal removal have a problem in coagulant cost and instability of the settling efficiency. The authors investigated the effects of pH and slow mixing conditions on heavy metal hydroxide precipitation and the particle size distribution of the precipitate for a precipitation-membrane separation process. The optimum pH values for the hydroxide precipitation ranged from 9 to 10. The addition of $FeCl_3$ did not enhance the heavy metal removal. 20 min of slow mixing at 70 rpm showed the maximum heavy metal removal to meet the water quality criteria for effluent discharge. More than 99.9% of the heavy metal precipitate particles were bigger than $2{\mu}m$.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.207-215
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• 2006

The characteristic floc growth of Al-based coagulants was investigated in the aspect of mixing intensity and visualization of generated flocs during coagulation and flocculation processes. Zeta potential of turbid particles in the artificial water nearly approached to zero at pH 8-9, in which TDS and conductivity were minimized. The removal rate of turbidity and phosphate was maximized at the optimal mixing intensity of rapid and slow mixing stages. After the rapid mixing stage of coagulation process, small particles ($3-5{\mu}m$) were abruptly generated, and higher mixing intensity made more numbers of flocs. With the progress of slow mixing stage, the number of small particles were decreased with the simultaneous increase of intermediate particles ($7-21{\mu}m$). The number of large particles (>$23{\mu}m$) were maximized at the lowest rapid mixing intensity of $95.1sec^{-1}$, whereas small particles (<$5{\mu}m$) were maximized at the highest rapid mixing intensity of $760.7sec^{-1}$.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.158-164
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• 2016

Spherical DADNE/AP (1,1-diamino-2,2-dinitroethylen/ammonium perchlorate) energetic composites were produced by drowning-out/agglomeration (D/A). The agglomeration of DADNE with AP particles was found to be affected by the amount of the bridging liquid, stirring velocity and residence time. The composites appeared to grow dramatically with the amount of bridging liquid which triggers agglomeration. As the stirring velocity and the residence time increased, the size of composites increased and then tended to decrease. Thermal gravimetric analysis showed that the addition of DADNE activates the low temperature decomposition (LTD) of AP. For the neat AP, the only about 30 wt% of AP was found to decompose at the LTD. On the other hand, it was found that 70 wt% of AP decomposed when DADNE was added by physical mixing and 90 wt% of AP decomposed when the DADNE/AP composites were prepared by the D/A method.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.30 no.1C
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• pp.7-15
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• 2010

In case that the seepage of contaminants into the subsurface has been generated from the waste impoundment by demage of geomembrane liner, it is necessary to repair the leaks of geomembrane liner for minimizing the environmental contamination by electrophoresis method. However, when electrophoresis method is applied to leachate electrolyte system, the phenomenon of clay particles flocculation would be accelerated by the interaction between clay particles and specific chemicals in leachate. In addition, the gravitational settling behaviour would be induced superior to the electrophoretic migration behaviour. Eventually, the limitations of field applicability for using the electrophoresis method are appeared. Therefore, 1-D enhanced electrophoresis method is conducted to prevent the clay flocculation and accelerate the migration of clay particles separately. After the 1-D enhanced electrophoresis experiment, we can get the results that the deflocculation effect of clay particles is increased by electrical repulsion of polymer, which adsorbed in clay particle edge, in case of using PAA dispersing agent.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2014.02a
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• pp.131-131
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• 2014

양자점은 전통적인 유기 염료에 비해 흡광영역이 넓고 발광 피크의 폭이 좁으며, 흡광과 발광 사이의 에너지 차가 커서 검출이 용이하고, 광안정성이 우수할 뿐만 아니라, 단순히 크기를 조절함으로써 발광 피크의 에너지를 제어할 수 있는 특장 때문에 많은 연구가 진행되었다. 그러나 많은 나노입자들과 마찬가지로 실질적인 응용을 위해서는 양자점 나노입자들도 대부분 표면개질을 거쳐야 하는데, 이 과정이 까다롭고 또 표면개질 중에 나노입자들의 응집이 일어나거나 광특성이 나빠지는 등의 문제가 흔히 발생한다. 한편, 서브미크론 크기의 입자들은 나노입자에 비해 응집현상이 미미해서 상대적으로 취급이 용이하다. 그 중에서도 실리카 입자들은 합성방법도 쉽게 확립되어 있고 생체친화성이 우수하며 그 표면화학 반응이 이미 잘 알려져 있어서 활용하기가 매우 용이하다. 따라서 양자점 층을 실리카 표면 가까이에 자기조립을 통해 배열한 하이브리드 구조는 양자점의 장점을 편리하게 이용할 뿐만 아니라 실리카의 표면개질 특성도 그대로 이용할 수 있다는 이중의 장점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 코어/쉘 구조로 안정화된 II-VI 반도체 양자점 층을 아래 그림 1과 같이 실리카 콜로이드 내에 배열한 하이브리드 구조를 소개하고, 이 하이브리드 구조를 표면개질 하여 LED 칩 위에 패키징 함으로써 백색광을 제조한 연구 및 더 나아가 중심에 초상자성 클러스터 핵을 배치하고 이를 둘러싼 실리카 콜로이드 표면 가까이에 양자점 층을 배열한 초상자성 하이브리드 구조를 합성하여 이를 on-site sensor에 적용한 연구 결과를 소개한다.

• KSBB Journal
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.143-150
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• 2011

The aim of the study was to optimize harvesting method for concentrating microalgae from microalgae mass culture. It is well known that the mass density of microalgae is usually very low and these are small size (5-20 ${\mu}m$) in the culture medium. It is essential that microalgae is harvested and concentrated economically for economical biodiesel production from microalgae. In this study, to determine optimized conditions for microalgae harvesting by chemical flocculation. Flocculation of three algae, Chlorella ellipsoidea, Dunaliella bardawil, and Dunaliella tertiolecta, was performed using various chemical flocculants, such as inorganic flocculants (aluminium sulfate, aluminium potassium sulfate, ferrous sulfate, ferric sulfate, ferric chloride, calcium hydroxide, sodium carbonate, sodium nitrite, and sodium aluminate), organic flocculant (polyacrylamide), and biopolymer flocculants (chitosan and starch). The results indicated that aluminium based inorganic flocculants is suitable for microalgae harvesting such as Chlorella ellipsoidea, Dunaliella bardawil, and Dunaliella tertiolecta. The results also recommended that flocculant doses, agitation speed, agitation time, sedimentation time for economical microalgae harvesting method using chemical flocculants.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.474-474
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• 2022

미세플라스틱이 물 환경으로 배출되는 주요 경로로는 하수처리장 방류수와 강우유출수가 있다. 하수처리장 및 유역에서 배출된 미세플라스틱은 하천과 하구역을 거쳐 해양과 같은 대규모 수역으로 이동하는데, 이 과정에서 해양뿐만 아니라 담수호, 저수지 등과 같은 공공수역에도 미세플라스틱이 지속적으로 축적되고 있다. 특히 강우유출수에 포함된 미세플라스틱은 적절한 처리 과정 없이 하천으로 유입되는 경우가 많아 공공수역 내 미세플라스틱 저감 기술의 필요성이 증가하고 있다. 그러나 미세플라스틱 관련 기존 연구는 미세플라스틱의 분포 등 현황에 대한 모니터링 및 환경위해성과 관련한 것이 대부분이며, 미세플라스틱 저감기술 관련 연구 또한 일부 정수처리 및 하수처리 공정을 대상으로 하는 초기 단계의 연구가 진행되고 있을 뿐 공공수역에서의 미세플라스틱 저감기술 개발 관련 연구는 전무한 실정이다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 기존의 물리·화학적 수처리 공정인 용존공기부상법(Dissolved Air Flotation, DAF)에 물의 전기분해 시발생하는 브라운가스를 활용하여 응집된 물질을 빠르게 부상시켜 수체 내 오염물질을 제거할 수 있는 기술을 통해 수체 내 미세플라스틱 저감효과를 분석하였다. 또한, 해당 기술을 공공수역인 저수지에 적용하여 오염물질과 함께 미세플라스틱을 제거할 수 있는지 검토하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.55 no.2
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• pp.169-176
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• 2011

The electrochemical investigation of N,N-bis (2,5-di-tert-butylphenyl)-3,4,9,10 perylenebis (dicarboximide) laser dye have been carried out using cyclic voltammetry and convolution - deconvolution voltammetry combined with digital simulation technique at a platinum electrode in 0.1 mol/L tetrabutyl ammonium perchlorate (TBAP) in solvent 1,2 dichloroethane ($CH_2Cl-CH_2Cl$). The investigated dye was reduced via consumption of two sequential electrons to form radical anion and dianion (EE mechanism). In switching the potential to positive scan, the compound was oxidized by loss of two electrons, which were followed by a fast aggregation process ($EC_1EC_2$ mechanism). The electrode reaction pathway and the chemical and electrochemical parameters of the investigated compound were determined using cyclic voltammetry and convolutive voltammetry. The extracted electrochemical parameters were verified and confirmed via digital simulation method.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2021

Alzheimer's disease (AD), an irreversible degenerative disorder, is associated with accumulation and aggregation of amyloid-β peptides, hyperphosphorylated tau proteins, and high level of metal ions in the brain. Up to date, there is no effective therapeutic agent to stop the progress of the disease and thus early and accurate diagnosis of AD has gained increasing attention in recent years. Among several diagnostic methods, an optical imaging using fluorescent probes is one of the most promising tools to visualize AD biomarkers. In this review, we will introduce fluorescent probes that can be applied to in vivo brain imaging of AD models and also their structure. It is expected that the present review will provide useful information to many scientists in the related research fields.