• Membrane Journal
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.351-364
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• 2016

In recent decades, many researchers have tried to improve desalination performances of polyamide (PA) thin-film composite membranes (TFCs) by incorporating nanomaterials into a selective PA layer. This review focuses on PA-based nanocomposite membranes with high performances for energy-effective desalination in reverse osmosis. Carbon based nanomaterial (e.g., graphene oxide (GO), carbon nanotubes (CNT)) and/or other nanoparticles (e.g., zeolite, silica and etc.,) were applied to overcome the trade-off correlation between water permeability and salt rejection of current polymeric desalination membranes. Here, this brief review will discuss current studies of PA-based nanocomposite membranes with enhanced separation characteristics and provide the future research direction to achieve further improved desalination performances.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• 제47권5호
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• pp.433-438
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• 2010

Fe-carbon/$TiO_2$ composites were prepared by a sol-gel method using AC, ACF, CNT and $C_{60}$ as carbon precursors and were characterized by means of BET surface area, X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX). The activity of the prepared photocatalysts was investigated by degradation reaction of methylene blue (MB) irradiated with UV lamp. Effects of different carbon sources and irradiation time on photocatalytic activity were also investigated. The results showed that the photocatalytic activity of the Fe-carbon/$TiO_2$ composites was much higher than that of pristine $TiO_2$ and Fe/$TiO_2$ composites. The prominent photocatalytic activity of Fecarbon/$TiO_2$ composites could be attributed to both the effects of photo-adsorption and electron transfer by carbon substrate. In addition, the higher photocatalytic activity of Fe-carbon/$TiO_2$ composites can be compared with that of carbon/$TiO_2$ and Fe /$TiO_2$ composites due to cooperative effects between Fe and carbon.

• Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.118-131
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• 2007

Neurotransmitter imaging with radiopharmaceuticals plays major role for understanding of neurological and psychiatric disorders such as Parkinson's disease and depression. Radiopharmaceuticals for neurotransmitter imaging can be divided to dopamine transporter imaging radiopharmaceuticals and serotonin trnasporter imaging radiopharmaceuticals. Many kinds of new dopamine transporter imaging radiopharmcaeuticals has a tropane ring and they showed different biological properties according to the substituted functional group on tropane ring. After the first clinical trials with $[^{123}I]{\beta}-CIT$, alkyl chain substituent introduced to tropane ring amine to decrease time for imaging acquisition and to increase selectivity. From these results, $[^{123}I]PE2I$, [18F]FE-CNT, $[^{123}I]FP-CIT$ and $[^{18}F]FP-CIT$ were developed and they showed high uptake on the dopamine transporter rich regions and fast peak uptake equilibrium time within 4 hours after injection. $[^{11}C]McN$ 5652 was developed for serotonin trnasporter imaging but this compound showed slow kinetics and high background radioactivity. To overcome these problems, new diarylsulfide backbone derivatives such as ADAM, ODAM, AFM, and DASB were developed. In these candidates, $[^{11}C]AFM$ and $[^{11}C]DASB$ showed high binding affinity to serotonin transporter and fast in vivo kinetics. This paper gives an overview of current status on dopamine and serotonin transporter imaging radiopharmaceuitcals and the development of new lead compounds as potential radiopharmaceuticals by medicinal chemistry.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.224-230
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• 2012

Thermal batteries have excellent mechanical robustness, reliability, and long shelf life. Due to these characteristics as well as their unique activation mechanism, thermal batteries are widely adopted as military power sources. Li(Si)/$FeS_2$ thermal batteries, which are used mostly in these days, use LiCl-KCl and LiBr-LiCl-LiF as molten salt electrolyte. However, it is known that Li(Si)/$FeS_2$ thermal batteries have high internal resistance. Especially, $FeS_2$ cathode accounts for the greater part of internal resistance in unit cell. Many efforts have been put into to decrease the internal resistance of thermal batteries, which result in the development of new electrode material and new electrode manufacturing processes. But the applications of these new materials and processes are in some cases very expensive and need complicated additional processes. In this study, internal resistance study was conducted by adding carbon black and carbon nano-tube, which has high electron conductivity, into the $FeS_2$ cathode. As a results, it was found that the decrease of internal resistance of $FeS_2$ cathode by the addition of carbon black and carbon nano-tube.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 대한전기학회 2006년도 제37회 하계학술대회 논문집 C
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• pp.1444-1445
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• 2006

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are grown on TiN-Coated silicon substrates at $700^{\circ}C$ using an ICP-CVD method. Ni catalysts for CNT growth are formed using an RF magnetron sputtering system. Post-treatment using hydrogen ions has been performed in the ICP reactor by varying the treatment period. The characterization using various techniques, such as FESEM, HRTEM, and Raman spectroscopy, show that the physical dimension as well as the crystal quality of CNTs are changed by the post-treatment process. It is also seen that the hydrogen ion-bombardment may change the surface structure of CNTs, which may lead to produce better electron emission properties. The physical reason for all the measured data obtained are discussed to establish the relationship between the structural property and the electron emission characteristic of CNTs.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.327-336
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• 2009

최근 인류의 삶의 질 향상에 따라 건강하고, 쾌적하고, 편안한 삶을 살기 위한 많은 노력이 진행되고 있다. 센서는 이러한 삶의 질 향상을 위해서 필수불가결한 요소 중 하나이며, 고성능의 지능화된 센서가 요구되고 있어, 앞으로 이에 대한 수요는 더욱 증대될 것으로 생각된다. 최근의 센서 연구 개발 방향은 센서에 기능을 부여하는 기능성 재료가 중요한 요소로 더욱 부각되고 있으며, 특히, 다양한 성분과 형태로 존재하는 나노 기능 재료는 기존의 벌크 재료와는 차별화된 독특한 물리, 화학, 기계, 광학적 특성을 갖고 있어 더욱 주목받고 있다. 최근 기존의 나노 입자 연구에서 더욱 발전하여 서로 적용하기 위한 나노선이나 CNT를 포함한 나노튜브, 나노 복합재료 등의 연구가 매우 활발하다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 나노 재료를 이용한 가스 센서, 수질 센서, 바이오 센서, 광 센서 그리고 물리 센서 등 최신 나노 센서 연구개발 동향을 살펴보았으며, 미래 센서기술 발전방향 중 하나로서 나노 재료에 의한 센서의 고기능화 및 극소형화가 매우 중요한 부분으로 활용될 것으로 예측되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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• 한국조명전기설비학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.201-203
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 LED(light emitting diode)를 사용한 일반 조명에서부터 자동차 조명에 대한 LED, CNT(carbon nano-tube), OLED조명의 융합기술 현황에 대하여 살펴보았다. 정부의 15/30보급정책의 일환인 LED조명 시범보급사업(부산 및 대전 지하철역사, 김대중 컨벤션센터, 대구 및 대전 우체국 등)과 한국산업규격(KS C 7651-3)의 제정 등으로 LED 응용 조명은 시장에서의 사용으로 기존 조명기기와의 경쟁력이 예상된다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2015

This paper presents design, fabrication, and performance evaluation of a high voltage power supply for Carbon Nano Tube-based planar light sources. The proposed power supply employs an LLC resonant half-bridge converter and a sixfold voltage-multiplying rectifier. Steady-state characteristics of the voltage-multiplying rectifier are analyzed and used to derive the input-to-output voltage conversion ratio of the power supply. The input-to-output frequency response characteristics of the LLC tank circuit are analyzed and utilized in designing a proto-type power supply which produces a 15 KV output using a 400 V input source. The high-voltage transformer is fabricated using a sectional bobbin structure with an epoxy impregnation, in order to provide sufficient insulation for high voltage operations. The performance of the proposed power supply is confirmed with stable and reliable operations at the 15 KV output from no load to nominal load conditions. The proposed power supply is well suited as an electric ballast required stable operations of Carbon Nano Tube-based planar light sources.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• 제11권7호
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• pp.2713-2718
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• 2010

To improve the CNT's dispersion, we tried to chemically modify the surface of MWNT with the butyllithium and the hexyllithium solution in sonicated reactor. The functionalized-MWNTs were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectrometer(FT-IR) and Raman spectrophotometer. Also, we investigated the amount of alkyl moiety incorporated into MWNT's surface with Thermal gravimetric analyzer(TGA) and dispersibility in various organic solvents. Finally, we could find organic content was about 5% of the functionalized MWNT and dispersibility was enhanced in some solvents having intermediate solubility parameter.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 제38회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1363-1364
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• 2007

The composites such as Sn-CNTs, $SnSb_{0.5}$-CNTs and $CoSb_3$-CNTs have attracted much attention in the past years owing to their good overall properties. In these samples, intermetallic compounds show high specific capacities. Recently, interest in metal oxides such as $Al_{2}O_{3}$, MgO and $TiO_2$ has been largely stimulated by the realization that they can improve the cycling stability of the Li-ion battery electrodes. The reversible capacity of the $TiO_2$/CNTs composite reaches 168 mAh $g^{-1}$ at the first cycle and remains almost constant during long-term cycling. In this study, a nanocomposite of $TiO_2$/CNTs was prepared by sol-gel method and its electrochemical properties as anode materials for Li-ion batteries were studied by galvanostatic cycling, cyclic voltammograms (CV) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS).