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Synthesis of binary Cu-Se and In-Se nanoparticle inks using cherry blossom gum for CuInSe2 thin film solar cell applications

  • Pejjai, Babu;Reddy, Vasudeva Reddy Minnam;Seku, Kondaiah;Cho, Haeyun;Pallavolu, Mohan Reddy;Le, Trang Thi Thuy;Jeong, Dong-seob;Kotte, Tulasi Ramakrishna Reddy;Park, Chinho
    • Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering
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    • v.35 no.12
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    • pp.2430-2441
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    • 2018
  • Selenium (Se)-rich binary Cu-Se and In-Se nanoparticles (NPs) were synthesized by a modified heat-up method at low temperature ($110^{\circ}C$) using the gum exudates from a cherry blossom tree. Coating of CISe absorber layer was carried out using Se-rich binary Cu-Se and In-Se NPs ink without the use of any external binder. Our results indicated that the gum used in the synthesis played beneficial roles such as reducing and capping agent. In addition, the gum also served as a natural binder in the coating of CISe absorber layer. The CISe absorber layer was integrated into the solar cell, which showed a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 0.37%. The possible reasons for low PCE of the present solar cells and the steps needed for further improvement of PCE were discussed. Although the obtained PCE is low, the present strategy opens a new path for the fabrication of eco-friendly CISe NPs solar cell by a relatively chief non-vacuum method.

A New Spray Chrysanthemum Cultivar, "Cherry Blossom" with Resistant to White Rust, Single Flower Type and Bright Pink Petals for Cut Flower

  • Lim, Jin-Hee;Shin, Hak-Ki;Park, Sang Kun;Cho, Hae-Ryong;Rhee, Hye-Kyung;Kim, Mi-Seon;Joung, Hyang Young
    • Korean Journal of Breeding Science
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    • v.40 no.4
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    • pp.439-442
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    • 2008
  • A new spray chrysanthemum cultivar, 'Cherry Blossom' was released by National Horticultural Research Institute (NHRI), Rural Development Administration (RDA), Korea in 2007. A cross was made in 2002 between 'Relance', a spray cultivar with red petals and resistant to white rust and 'Yeonja', a spray cultivar with pink petals. Trials were conducted from 2005 to 2007 for the evaluation and selection of this cultivar, including shading culture in summer and retarding culture in autumn. The natural flowering time of "Cherry Blossom" is late October, but year-round flowering is possible by shading and lighting treatment. This cultivar is single type flowers with dark pink petals and green flower center and resistant to white rust. It is very stable color of petals when the variety is cultivated under high temperature conditions in summer season. The diameter of flower is 55.0 mm. The number of flowers per stem is 10.5 and the number of petals per flower is 24.0. The days to flowering under the short day treatment is about 45 in spring season.

Effects of Foliar Application of CaCl2 on Ca Content and Occurrence and Alleviation of Blossom-end Rot of Paprika During High Temperature Season (고온기 CaCl2 엽면 살포가 파프리카 칼슘함량, 배꼽썩음과 발생과 경감에 미치는 영향)

  • Oh, Jeong Sim;Lee, Yong-Beom;Bae, Jong Hyang;Na, Jong Kuk;Choi, Ki Young
    • Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.263-270
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    • 2021
  • This experiment was carried out to determine the effect of CaCl2 foliar spraying on the inhibition of blossom-end rot (BER) in hot summer paprika (Capsicum annum L. 'Special') cultivation. The effect of CaCl2 application was examined by the foliar application based on different fruit size, frequency, and spraying time. Also, it was investigated the occurrence and alleviation effect of BER symptom. Foliar application of CaCl2 (Ca 0.4%) was conducted by treating a fruit and leaf at 4 to 9 nodes above the crown flowers of each plant with 350 mL per week from June 3 to July 1. When the CaCl2 was sprayed at 7-day intervals for 4 weeks, the Ca content was the lowest in the fruit harvested with BER symptom in 11 to 20 mm of fruit width (FW). Four different regions in both BER symptom and normal fruits showed significant differences of Ca content, the highest was in pedicel, followed by stem-end, middle, and blossom-end. The Ca content increased sharply in normal paprika with 31-40 mm FW, in which Ca content was 78% higher than that of BER. Ca content in the middle and blossom-end of paprika over 21 mm in FW ranged 19.8% to 28.8% in normal fruits and 15.7% to 18.5% in BER, respectively. The incidence of BER increased rapidly by more than 60% in fruits with 31-40 mm FW. While there was no difference in fruit weight among the FW treatment, marketable yield rate was highest in the 21-30 mm FW, and the sugar content was high in the 11-30mm FW. When CaCl2 was applied three times for 7 days to a paprika having a 21- 30 mm FW, the cell wall-bound (CWB) Ca content was the highest and the rate of BER was lowest with 6.3%. After 10 days of CaCl2 foliar spray treatment, the CWB Ca content of paprika increased by 2.9 to 3.5 times compared to the control in all treatments. At 7 days after the CaCl2 foliar spraying once a day at varying spraying time, the leaf burn observed from 9:30 a.m. to 17:00 p.m. and the proline content increased as the spraying time was delayed. Therefore, the CaCl2 foliar spraying method for reducing of BER occurrence during paprika summer cultivation seems to be appropriate to spray 2-3 times at intervals of 3 days and before 8 a.m. at the time when the FW is 21-30 mm.

Study of the Soonjo GichukJinchanEuigwe JagyeongjeonJeongil Misu in 1829 (1829년 순조 기축진찬의궤(己丑進饌儀軌) 자경전 정일 진찬 미수에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Ha-yun;Kim, Myung-Hee;Kim, Ah-Hyeon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.322-329
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    • 2018
  • This study analyzed the Gichuk years JagyeongjeonJeongilJinchan Misu. The banquet, Misu is offered to the king by the crown prince, crown princess, and vassal, according to procedure. JagyeongjeonJeongil Misu are offered as 49 dishes spanning seven courses, so seven dishes in each misu are offered. Various types of food, such as Gawjeong, fruit, soups and side dishes, are placed. Misu involves only the king, crown prince, and crown princess in the banquet. The number of misu dishes are different for the King and prince. The table used is called the Joochil Sowonban and the tableware used is brassware and pottery. Sangwha used Peonies, Chinese rose, Red peach blossom-samjihwa, and Red peach blossom-byulgeonhwa in each misu.

Efficient Computation and Control of Geometric Shape Morphing based on Direction Map (방향지도 기반 기하모핑의 효율적인 계산 및 제어 방법)

  • Lee, J.H.;Kim, H.;Kim, H.S.
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.243-253
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    • 2003
  • This paper presents a new geometric morphing algorithm for polygons based on a simple geometric structure called direction map, which is mainly composed of a circular list of direction vectors defined by two neighboring vertices of a polygon. To generate a sequence of intermediate morphing shapes, first we merge direction maps of given control shapes based on a certain ordering rule of direction vectors, and scale the length of each direction vectors using Bezier or blossom controls. We show that the proposed algorithm is an improvement of the previous methods based on Minkowski sum (or convolution) in th aspects of computational efficiency and geometric properties.

The Pollination of Honeybee on Peach Blossom Planted in Vinyl House and its Valuation of the Fruits after Harvest

  • Kim, Young-Soo;Cho, Jae-Wook;Lee, Man-Young;Lee, Myeong-Lyeol
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Sericultural Science Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.70-70
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    • 2003
  • The pollination activity of honeybees(Apis melltfera L.) were investigated at the green-house peach blossom of Cheongdo Peach Experiment Station in Korea during the early spring from 2/28/02 - 3/4/02. Furthermore, the differences of ripened fruits, such as bearing ratio, fruit weight, diameter, hardness, sweetness, and acidity were measured to compare the effects with honeybee, artificial, honeybee+artificial, and none pollination. (omitted)

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Fragrance and Metabolite Components of Flowers from Korean Native Apocynum lancifolium Russanov

  • Kim, JoHoon;Lee, JaeMyun;Park, YeGun;Ann, SeoungWon;Baik, JungAe
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.30 no.10
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    • pp.879-889
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    • 2021
  • This study characterizes the volatile aromatic and metabolite components of domestic native Apocynum lancifolium blossom. The accurate characterization of fragrances collected from the blossom was carried out using gas chromatography-mass. A total of 70 chemical components were identified, including ketones of acetophenone (29.22%), phenylethyl alcohol (10.54%), methyl-benzenemethanol (8.43%), benzyl alcohol (7.97%), natural bicyclic sesquiterpene types of caryophyllene (6.08%), gurjunene (6.20%), humulene (1.90%), and ocimene (1.04%). Overall, the content of ketones, alcohols, and terpenes was higher than that of others. The major metabolite components were pentanoic acid, malic acid, fructofuranoside, quinic acid, tagatose, sorbose, galactose, inositol, galactaric acid, glucopyranoside, and octadecenoic acid.

The Effect of Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa spp.) as a Pollinator on the Fruit Set Increment of Sweet Pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) in Summer Hydroponics (착색단고추 고온기 호박벌 처리에 의한 착과증진 효과)

  • Won, Jae-Hee;Lee, Seong-Yoll;Kim, Jong-Kee;Jeon, Shin-Jae
    • Journal of Bio-Environment Control
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.420-424
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    • 2009
  • This experiment was executed to investigate the effect of the carpenter bee as a pollinator on the fruit set increment of sweet pepper in summer hydroponics in the alpine area of Gangwon province, Korea. Where the number of fruit sets were increasing during the treatment of pollination by the carpenter bee, total yields during the whole growing period were not different. The number of seeds per fruit in the treatment of the carpenter bee increased more than that in the control by 7.3 percent increment, but the percentage of blossom-end rot increased. As fruit weight range of SS size (below 120g) decreased and that of L size (from 181g to 210g) increased by the pollination treatment, so the percentage of standardized products for the export to Japan improved. Therefore this result was effective for the fruit production of high quality for the export to Japan and it will be necessary for further study on the method of reducing blossom-end rot to be done.

Effect of Fermented Soybean Meal by Bacillus subtilis in Pacific White Shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei Diets on Growth Performance, Innate Immunity and Disease Resistance (Bacillus subtilis 발효대두박의 사료 내 첨가가 흰다리새우(Litopenaeus vannamei)의 성장, 면역력 및 질병저항성에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Soohwan;Lee, Chorong;Chang, Kyunghoon;Bae, Junyoung;Cho, Seong-Jun;Lim, Se-Jin;Lee, Kyeong-Jun
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.50 no.1
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    • pp.8-14
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    • 2017
  • A feeding trial was conducted to evaluate the effect of dietary supplementation with fermented soybean meal by Bacillus subtilis (BFSBM) on growth performance, feed utilization, innate immunity, water quality, and disease resistance of Litopenaeus vannamei. A basal fish meal-based diet was regarded as a control and two other diets were prepared by replacing 30% fish meal with either soybean meal (SBM) or BFSBM. Triplicate groups of shrimp ($0.80{\pm}0.010g$) were fed one of the experimental diets for 6 weeks. No differences were found in final body weight, feed conversion ratio, or survival among all dietary treatments after the feeding trial. Shrimp fed the BFSBM diet had significantly higher phagocytic and phenoloxidase activities than those of shrimp fed the SBM diet. Total ammonia concentrations in culture water during a zero water exchange test tended to decrease in tanks where BFSBM diet was provided. Disease resistance of shrimp to Vibrio harveyi tended to increase in the BFSBM group during 14 days of challenge compared to that in the control (CON) and SBM groups. These results show that dietary supplementation with BFSBM can enhance the innate immunity of Pacific white shrimp and replace at least 30% of dietary fish meal.