• Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2007

By combining ultrasonic energy which is essential for the chain scission of polymer molecules and a multifunctional agent (MFA) having double bonds at its ends, we were able to modify the molecular structure of polycarbonate (PC) from linear to a branched structure during melt processing. The three double bonds in chain ends of MFA were expected to act as sites for trapping macroradicals of PC during the course of ultrasound-assisted mixing process. The transformation of molecular structure of PC was confirmed by the measurements of rheological properties of the modified PC. After the ultrasonic irradiation of PC together with MFA, increase in complex viscosities and shear-thinning behavior were observed. The Cole-Cole plot and measurement of extensional viscosities revealed the characteristic features of branched structure with well-defined extensional behavior which is comparable to that of a commercial branched PC.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.29-38
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• 1992

This paper describes the general formulation for the in-plane longitudinal and flexural coupled free vibration analysis of a branched structure. The branched structure, which is mainly found in machine tools, pipeline systems and so on, has some crooked parts and subsystems. And it modeled as a distributed mass system. The superiority of the present method to the transfer matrix method in the computation accuracy and speed was confirmed by the numerical computation results. Moreover, we comfirmed that boundary and intermediate conditions have been controlled by the spring constants.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.209-218
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• 2022

Recently, research on the development of anion exchange membranes (AEMs) has received considerable attention from the scientific community around the world. Here, we fabricated a series of AEMs with branched structures with different alkyl spacers and conducted comparative evaluations. The introduction of these branched structures is an attempt to overcome the low ionic conductivity and stability problems that AEMs are currently facing. To this end, branched polymers with different spacer lengths were synthesized and properties of each membrane prepared according to the branched structure were compared. The chemical structure of the polymer was investigated by proton nuclear magnetic resonance, Fourier transform infrared, and gel permeation chromatography, and the thermal properties were investigated using thermogravimetric analysis. The branched anion exchange membrane with (CH₂)₃ and (CH₂)₆ spacers exhibited ionic conductivities of 8.9 mS cm^-1 and 22 mS cm^-1 at 90℃, respectively. This means that the length of the spacer affects the ionic conductivity. Therefore, this study showing the effect of the spacer length on the ionic conductivity of the membrane in the polymer structure constituting the ion exchange membrane is judged to be very useful for future application studies of AEM fuel cells.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제31권12호
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• pp.3735-3739
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• 2010

Branched oligopeptides prepared by coupling a very hydrophobic aspartic diamino acid ethyl ester such as Asp $(LeuEt)_2$, $Asp(IleEt)_2$ and $Asp(PheEt)_2$ to glycine or glycylphenylalanine were grafted to the cyclotriphosphazene backbone bearing an equimolar hydrophilic poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG). The properties of the resultant amphiphiles were examined in comparison with those of the linear oligopeptide analogues previously reported. All cyclic phosphazene trimers grafted with the branched tetra- and pentapeptides displayed a normal trend of thermosensitivity depending on their hydrophilic to hydrophobic balance, but the stability and particle size of their micelles were found to be greatly dependent on the fine structure of the branched oligopeptides grafted. The trimers bearing branched tetrapeptides with a low hydrophobicity were found to form unstable micelles initially, which reassemble into thermodynamically more stable polymersomes.

• BMB Reports
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.1-36
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• 2000

Acetohydroxyacid synthase (EC 4.1.3.18) catalyses the first reaction in the pathway for synthesis of the branched-chain amino acids. The enzyme is inhibited by several commercial herbicides and has been subjected to detailed study over the last 20 to 30 years. Here we review the progress that has been made in understanding its structure, regulation, mechanism, and inhibition.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.459-468
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• 2002

Literature data measured by the author have been processed to report on the effect of solute structure on gas liquid partition coefficients of eleven normal, branched and cyclic alkanes ranging in carbon number from five to nine in sixty nine low molecular weight liquids. The alkane solutes are n-pentane(p), n-hexane(hx), n-heptane(hp), n-octane(o), n-nonane(n), 2-methylpentane(mp), 2,5-dimethylpentane(dp), 2,5-dimethylhexane(dh), 2,3,4-trimethylpentane(tp), cyclohexane(ch), and ethylcyclohexane(ec). The solvent set encompasses most of those studied by Rohrschneider as well as three homologous series of solvents (n-alkanes, 1-alcohols and 1-nitriles) and several perfluorinated alkanes and highly fluorinated alcohols. An excellent linear relationship was observed between lnK and the carbon number of n-alkanes. The effective carbon numbers of branched and cyclic alkanes were determined in a similar fashion to the method of Kovats index. We found that the logarithm of solute vapor pressure multiplied by solute molar volume was a perfect descriptor for the linear relationship with the median effective carbon number.

• 대한수학회지
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.1167-1177
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• 2001

The groups generated by reflections in faces of Coxeter polyhedra in three-dimensional Thurstons spaces are considered. We develop a method for finding of finite index subgroups of Coxeter groups which uniformize three-dimensional manifolds obtained as two-fold branched coverings of manifolds of Heegaard genus one, that are lens spaces L(p, q) and the space S$^2$$\times$S$^1$.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.102-109
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• 1997

효소반응과 부분 산가수분해 결과를 해석하여 Leuconostoc mesenteriodes M-12 덱스트란수크라제 억셉터 반응 산물인 새로운 분지올리고당의 구조를 확인하였다. 분지올리고당 B4의 구조는 62-O-$\alpha$-D-kojibiosylmaltose인 것으로 확인되었으며, 분지올리고당 B5의 구조는 63-O-$\alpha$-D-kojibiosylpanose였다. 억셉터 반응산물을 덱스트라나제로 분해한 결과 새로운 올리고당인 D4를 확인할 수 있었다. 억셉터 반응산물을 억셉터로 이용한 두 번째 억셉터 반응의 생성물을 덱스트라나제 처리하여 D4를 얻었는데 덱스트라나제와 글\ulcorner아밀라제에 의해 분해되지 않았다. 그 구조는 62-O-$\alpha$-D-kojibiosylisomaltose로 확인되었다. 직선상 또는 분지 결합을 가진 d.p. 6 이하의 억셉터 반응산물의 생성 패턴도 확인하였다.

• 한국식품영양과학회지
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.214-222
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• 2011

천년초에 존재하는 점질다당의 새로운 이용방안을 모색하기 위해 천년초로부터 다당을 분리하여 항전이 활성을 평가하고 구조 분석을 행하였다. B16BL6 종양세포를 이용한 폐암 전이모델에서 천년초 조다당 CNC-0는 농도 의존적으로 높은 항전이 활성을 나타냈다. 천년초 조다당 CNC-0는 DEAE-Sepharose FF 및 Sephadex G-75를 이용한 연속적 chromatography를 행하여 CNC-Ia으로 정제하고 이들의 구조적 특성을 검토하였다. CNC-Ia는 분자량 약 700 kDa의 다당체로 구성당 조성을 확인한 결과, arabinose, galactose 및 xylose를 높은 비율로 함유하고 있었으며 rhamnose와 fucose를 미량 함유하고 있었다. 본 당쇄의 결합양식을 규명하기 위해 methylation analysis를 행한 결과 CNC-Ia은 terminal Araf, 5-linked Araf, 4-linked Galp, terminal Xylp와를 포함한 총 18종의 결합으로 구성되어 있었으며 full branched Araf, 3,4,6-branched Galp 및 full branched Galp 와 같은 3종의 CNC-Ia 고유의 특징적 결합을 포함하고 있었다. 또한 CNC-Ia의 미세구조를 규명하기 위해 exo-${\alpha}$-Larabinofuranosidase와 endo-${\beta}$-1,4-D-galactanase를 이용한 연속 가수분해 및 해석도 행하였다. 이상의 결과로부터 천년초 유래 다당 CNC-Ia는 ${\beta}$-($1{\rightarrow}4$)-galactan 주쇄에 arabinose oligo당이 측쇄로 분지된 Type I arabinogalactan으로 판단되었으며 주쇄 및 측쇄 모두 고도로 분지된 특징이 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제45권7호
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• pp.495-501
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• 2022

Leucine dehydrogenase (LDH, EC 1.4.1.9) catalyzes the reversible deamination of branched-chain L-amino acids to their corresponding keto acids using NAD⁺ as a cofactor. LDH generally adopts an octameric structure with D4 symmetry, generating a molecular mass of approximately 400 kDa. Here, the crystal structure of the LDH from Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa-LDH) was determined at 2.5 Å resolution. Interestingly, the crystal structure shows that the enzyme exists as a dimer with C2 symmetry in a crystal lattice. The dimeric structure was also observed in solution using multiangle light scattering coupled with size-exclusion chromatography. The enzyme assay revealed that the specific activity was maximal at 60℃ and pH 8.5. The kinetic parameters for three different amino acid and the cofactor (NAD⁺) were determined. The crystal structure represents that the subunit has more compact structure than homologs' structure. In addition, the crystal structure along with sequence alignments indicates a set of non-conserved arginine residues which are important in stability. Subsequent mutation analysis for those residues revealed that the enzyme activity reduced to one third of the wild type. These results provide structural and biochemical insights for its future studies on its application for industrial purposes.