• KSBB Journal
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.615-620
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• 1998

The readily fermentable carbon sources in swine were acetic acid, propionic acid and butyric acid at the average concentrations of 7.2 g/L, 2.2 g/L and 2.7 g/L, respectively. The swine waste also contained excess nitrogen and other mineral sources. In shake flask experiments, the optimal range of cell growth for Azotobacter vinelandii UWD were 1.0∼3.5 g/L of acetic acid, 0.7∼2.0 g/L of propionic acid and 0.5∼2.0 g/L of butyric acid. A mixture of these three acids simulating two times diluted swine waste supported the best cell growth but the amount of carbon sources was limited. In shake flask and fermentor experiments, an addition of 30 g/L of glucose increased the final cell dry weight 8 times while the final poly (3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) concentration increased 86 times compared with using acid mixture only. A. vinelandii UWD preferred organic acids in the sequence of acetic acid, propionic acid, butyric acid, and valeric acid.

• Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.202-206
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• 2009

In many countries including China and U.S., researchers are developing methods to use sweetpotato as raw material for biofuel. We consider the sweetpotato is not only a source of green fuel, it eventually will provide various material including paper, adhesives, biodegradable plastics, and secondary metabolites. Sweetpotato is one of the high efficiency crop because it yields more calories per unit area than either maize or potato, and it requires the shortest growing cycle of the root crops grown in the tropics. Sweetpotato is the most useful crop for the coming starchbased industry era. Sweetpotato genetic resources are collected, characterized, evaluated, and maintained by U.S., China, Japan, and the International Potato Center. New varieties of sweetpotato using the proper genetic resources and molecular breeding will be developed to cope with the global food and energy in 21st century.

• Journal of Forest and Environmental Science
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.297-302
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• 2015

With the intention to solve environmental problems caused by synthetic plastics from petroleum resources, biodegradable polyurethane foams and thermosetting moldings were prepared from biomass, such as wood and wheat bran by liquefaction method. Biodegradability of these biomass-based polymeric materials was investigated. In activated sludge, polyurethane foams from liquefied wheat bran and thermosetting molding from phenolated wood were decomposed approximately 14% and 29% for 20 days, respectively. One of the wood fungi, Coriolus versicolor was able to grow without supplemental nutrition, only with distilled water and polyurethane foam as a nutrition source. Risk assessments were also conducted and results showed that estrogenicity, mutagenicity, and carcinogenicity were not observed in the extractives of biomass- based polymeric materials.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물공학회 2002년도 생물공학의 동향 (X)
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• pp.379-380
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• 2002

기계적 성질이 우수한 PVC와 생분해성이 우수한 고분자로 알려져 있는 폴리카프로락톤 (PCL)과 블렌드하여 새로운 소재의 생분해성 필름을 제조하여 생분해성 효과에 대해 조사하였으며, 그 결과 PCL/PVC 필름의 표면은 8주 후에 다수의 작은 구멍이 형성되었으며, 이러한 결과는 PCL의 함량이 9%로 낮아도 생분해성을 지닌다는 것을 의미한다.

• 한국포장학회지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.25-32
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• 2009

It is now widely recognized that the disposal of packaging waste is an increasing environmental concern. Recent interest in polymer waste management of packaging materials has added incentive to the research. Poly(vinyl alcohol) is a readily biodegradable water-soluble polymer. However, this polymer cannot be processed by conventional extrusion technologies because the melting point of PVA is close to its decomposition temperature. Therefore, PVA films have been mostly prepared by solvent casting from water. Applications of PVA include sizing, binders, fibers, and films for agricultural chemicals and hospital laundry bags. A better understanding of PVA films, which also play important roles in the degradation of plastics, will expand the usage of PVA. Composite films based on PVA generally exhibit better mechanical and thermal properties than pure PVA. The aim of this review article is to review types, formation, and properties of PVA films and PVA based composite films used in packaging related researches.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.92-97
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• 2022

Plastics are classified into 7 types such as PET (PETE), HDPE, PVC, LDPE, PP, PS, and Other for separation and recycling. Recently, large corporations advocating ESG management are replacing them with bioplastics. Incineration and landfill of disposal of plastic waste are responsible for air pollution and destruction of the ecosystem. Because it is not easy to accurately classify plastic materials with the naked eye, automated system-based screening studies using various sensor technologies and AI-based software technologies have been conducted. In this paper, NIR scanning devices considering the NIR wavelength characteristics that appear differently for each plastic material and a system that can identify the type of plastic by learning the NIR spectrum data collected through it. The accuracy of plastic material identification was evaluated through a decision tree-based SVM model for multiclass classification on NIR spectral datasets for 8 types of plastic samples including biodegradable plastic.

• 공업화학
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.115-124
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• 2020

지속가능한 플라스틱 산업은 크게 사용 후에 물과 이산화탄소로 분해되어 환경에 악영향을 주지 않는 생분해성 플라스틱과 대기 중의 탄소자원으로 광합성된 바이오매스로부터 전환된 원료를 사용하여 탄소 중립을 실현하는 바이오매스 기반 플라스틱으로 나누어진다. 그중 산업의 새로운 방향으로 바이오매스 기반 엔지니어링 플라스틱(EP) 및 천연 나노섬유를 이용한 강화 나노복합소재가 각광받고 있다. 이들 소재는 천연자원을 활용한다는 친환경성의 이점 외에도 석유계 플라스틱보다 뛰어난 차별화된 고기능성을 부여하여 고부가가치 플라스틱 시장에서의 경쟁력을 가진다. 대표적 바이오매스 기반 단량체인 isosorbide와 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid로부터 제조되는 폴리에스터, 폴리카보네이트 소재는 석유계 대비 높은 투명성, 기계적 특성, 열안정성, 기체 차단성 등으로 산업화의 선두에 있다. 더 나아가서 연속사용온도 150 ℃ 이상의 슈퍼 EP 소재에도 적용될 수 있는 가능성을 보였다. 나노셀룰로오스, 나노키틴 등의 자연계 나노섬유의 표면 친수성, 다관능기를 활용한 in situ 중합법을 이용하여 기존에 보고된 바 없는 기계적 물성 향상을 최소한의 나노필러 함량으로 이루어내었다. 본 총설에서 다루는 바이오매스 기반 tough-플라스틱은 환경이 요구하는 탄소 중립, 소비자가 요구하는 고기능성, 산업이 요구하는 접근성을 모두 만족함으로써 석유계 플라스틱을 대체해 나갈 것으로 기대한다.

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.265-272
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• 2008

Biodegradable polybutylene succinate(PBS) is an environment friendly plastics for fisheries, because it can mitigate the ghost fishing problem caused by gill-net and trap fisheries. To evaluate photodegradability of PBS monofilament in comparison with polyamide(PA) and polyethylene(PE) monofilament, these 3 types of monofilaments were spun and exposed to ultraviolet light(UV) of weather-ometer for 900 hours, and then their modification, crystal structure, strength, and extensibility were analysed. PBS monofilament did not show any crack and maintained its crystal structure after 900 hour exposure to UV whereas PE monofilament began showing cracks and structure modification after 600 hour exposure. Under UV exposure, the strength and extensibility decreased more rapidly in PBS than in PA and PE. We estimate that gill nets made of PBS monofilament can endure for about 1 year. The breaking strength and elongation decreased linearly with the exposure time for the 3 types of monofilaments. The derived regression equations of the residual tenacity(RT, kg/$mm^2$) and the residual extensibility(RE, %) with the exposure time in year(Y) for each monofilament were; PBS : RT=48.598 - 8.6437Y($R^2=0.93$), RE=28.165 - 7.3233Y($R^2=0.98$), P A : RT=59.771 - 8.6437Y($R^2=0.98$), RE=32.198 - 5.2772Y($R^2=0.92$), P E : RT=60.898 - 5.6528Y($R^2=0.98$), RE=11.887 - 0.7188Y($R^2=0.98$).

• 접착 및 계면
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.140-145
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• 2019

환경적 관점에서 고분자필름이나 코팅제 산업계에서 이산화탄소와 휘발성 유기화합물의 저감은 가장 중요한 이슈 중의 하나이다. 광경화 시스템은 용제를 사용치 않아 휘발성 유기화합물의 방출을 최소화 할 수 있고 빠른 경화로 인한 에너지 소모가 적은 잇점이 있다. 또한, 생분해성 고분자는 거대한 폐플라스틱의 발생을 고려하면 환경적으로 경제적으로 많은 관심을 받고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 생분해성 고분자인 폴리락타이드 다이올과 폴리에틸렌 글리콜을 폴리올로하여 광경화형 폴리우레탄 아크릴레이트를 합성하였고 자외선에 의해 말단의 아크릴레이트 그룹의 경화반응을 진행하였다. 경화된 필름의 인장강도, 파단율 및 Tg는 폴리락타이드 다이올의 함량 증가와 더불어 증가하였고 친수특성과 열정안정성은 폴리에틸렌 글리콜 함량과 비례하였다. 따라서 친환경적인 폴리올의 함량 조절로 광경화 폴리우레탄 아크릴레이트의 물성이 조절 가능하였다.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.318-322
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• 2004

Lactic acid is an environmentally benign organic acid that could be used as a raw material for biodegradable plastics if it can be inexpensively produced by fermentation. Two genes (ldhL and ldhD) encoding the L-(+) and D-(-) lactate dehydrogenases (L-LDH and D-LDH) were cloned from Lactobacillus sp., RKY2, which is a lactic acid hyper-producing bacterium isolated from Kimchi. Open reading frames of ldhL for and ldhD for the L and D-LDH genes were 962 and 998 bp, respectively. Both the L(+)- and D(-)-LDH proteins showed the highest degree of homology with the L- and D-lactate dehydrogenase genes of Lactobacillus plantarum. The conserved residues in the catalytic activity and substrate binding of both LDHs were identified in both enzymes.