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Synergistic Effect in Mosquitocidal Activity of Crystal Proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis NT0423 Transformed with cryIVD Gene (cryIVD 유전자로 형질전환된 Bacillus thuringiensis NT0423 균주 내독소 단백질의 모기 유충에 대한 독성의 상승효과)

  • 박현우;유용만;오현우;진병래;김인기;강석권
    • Korean journal of applied entomology
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.85-90
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    • 1996
  • Bacillus thuringiensis NT0423 produces quite a typical bipyramidal crystals of a common major band of ca. 130 kDa, and has dual specificity against Lepidoptera and Diptera. To enforce the Diptera-toxicity of B. thuringiensis NT0423, cryND gene was transformed 30 B. thuringiensis NT0423. The transfonnant B. thuringiensis PT1227 was obtained from introduction of pCGl0 into B. thuringiensis NT0423 by electroporation. The result showed that cryND and resident crystal protein genes in transformant were stably expressed with its own shape. Furthermore, the toxicity of B. thuringiensis PT1227 against Diptera was highly enforced, suggesting that the enforced toxicity of B. thuringiensis PT1227 was due to synergistic effect of both introduced and resident crystal proteins in transformant.

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The formation mechanism of grown-in defects in CZ silicon crystals based on thermal gradients measured by thermocouples near growth interfaces

  • Abe, Takao
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.402-416
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    • 1999
  • The thermal distributions near the growth interface of 150nm CZ crystals were measured by three thermocouples installed at the center, middle (half radius) and edge (10nm from surface) of the crystals. The results show that larger growth rates produced smaller thermal gradients. This contradicts the widely used heat flux balance equation. Using this fact, it is confirmed in CZ crystals that the type of point defects created is determined by the value of the thermal gradient(G) near the interface during growth, as already reported for FZ crystals. Although depending on the growth systems the effective length of the thermal gradient for defect generation are varied, we defined the effective length as 10n,\m from th interface in this experiment. If the G is roughly smaller than 20C/cm, vacancy rich CZ crystals are produced. If G is larger than 25C/cm, the species of point defects changes dramatically from vacancies to interstitials. The experimental results after detaching FZ and CZ crystals from the melt show that growth interfaces are filled with vacancies. We propose that large G produces shrunk lattice spacing and in order to relax such lattice excess interstitials are necessary. Such interstitials recombine with vacancies which were generated at the growth interface, nest occupy interstitial sites and residuals aggregate themselves to make stacking faults and dislocation loops during cooling. The shape of the growth interface is also determined by te distributions of G across the interface. That is, the small G and the large G in the center induce concave and convex interfaces to the melts, respectively.

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The CW lasing characteristics of a Cr:LiSAF laser pumped by semiconductor lasers (반도체 레이저에 의해 펌핑되는 Cr:LiSAF 레이저의 연속 발진 특성)

  • 윤장한;박종대;조창호;이재형;장준성
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.47-51
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    • 1997
  • A Cr:LiSAF laser pumped by semiconductor lasers was constructed. The pumping laser was a high-power semiconductor laser (SDL 7432-H1) of wavelength 674 nm and maximum power of 500 mW. The laser crystal was a Cr:LiSAF of plano-Brewster shape with 3% Cr3+ion concentration and 3 mm in length. The plane facet of the crystal was coated to get the maximum transmittance of pupmping laser and maximu reflection over the 800 - 880 nm bandwidth. V-shaped resonator was used to compensate the astigmatism induced by the crystal. The output power of the Cr:LiSAF laser was 19.4 mW at the pumping power of 290 mW. The wavelength was tuned by a steep dive-angled birefringent filter from 840 nm to 880 nm and the characteristics of the filter were agreed well with a theory.

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Liquid Crystal Elastomer-Based Soft Actuators (액정 엘라스토머 기반 소프트 액추에이터)

  • Bae, Jaehee;Kim, Keumbee;Choi, Subi;Ahn, Suk-kyun
    • Prospectives of Industrial Chemistry
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    • v.24 no.6
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    • pp.19-31
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    • 2021
  • 자극응답성 액정 엘라스토머(liquid crystal elastomer)는 하이드로겔(hydrogel), 형상 기억 고분자(shape memory polymer)와 더불어 생체 특성을 모방한 인공 근육, 소프트 액추에이터 및 소프트 로봇을 위한 스마트 소재로 최근 높은 관심을 받고 있다. 특히, 액정 엘라스토머는 고무 탄성과 액정 이방성이 결합된 비등방성 탄성 고분자로, 열, 빛, 전기 및 수분과 같은 외부자극에 반응하여 가역적이며, 액정 분자들의 배향조절을 통한 프로그램된 변형이 가능하다. 액정 엘라스토머가 개념 증명을 하는 수준을 넘어 실제로 유용한 소프트 액추에이터 및 로봇 시스템에 적용되기 위해서는 우수한 구동력 및 작업 용량, 높은 구동 변형률, 빠른 응답 시간, 낮은 구동 온도, 다양한 외부 자극반응성 및 높은 에너지 전환 효율 등을 확보하는 것이 중요하다. 본 기고문에서는 액정 엘라스토머의 개념에 대해 소개하고, 이러한 소재가 소프트 액추에이터로써 광범위하게 활용될 수 있도록 다양한 성능들을 향상시킬 수 있는 방법에 대해 소개하고자 한다.

Preparation of porous hydroxyapatite ceramics (Hydroxyapatite 다공체의 제조)

  • Song, J.T.;Ryou, D.W.;Choi, S.H.
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.4 no.3
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    • pp.284-293
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    • 1994
  • The various methods of preparation for the porous hydroxyapatite ceramics using naphthalene, $H_20_2$ and chlorinated paraffine with $H_20_2$ were investigated. And then the prepared orous hydroxyapatite ceramics were characterized by XRD, SEM, FT-IR and the apparent porosity. The pore size of porous hydroxyapatite ceramics was controlled by the content and size of naphthalene granular. It was found that the porosity of it was increased with the amount of naphthalene, but the bending strength was decreased. The application of hydrogen peroxide produced porous materials like a sponge tissue, but the porosity and the shape of sintered body were hardly controlled. In the case of using chlorinated paraffine with the simultaneous addition of hydrogen peroxide, the sponge tissue was obtained and also could be controlled from 50 up to about 65% porosity of it.

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Electro-optical devices from polymer-stabilized liquid crystals with molecular shape polarity

  • Kim, Sang-Hwa;Chien, Liang Chy;Komitov, Lachezar
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.839-842
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    • 2004
  • We present a fast-switching electro-optical device based on flexoelectro-optic effect in short pitch cholesterics oriented in uniform lying helix texture. The device has two operating modes: amplitude and phase modulation mode. The amplitude modulation mode is a fast in-plane switching of the device optic axis that enables to achieve a high percent of modulation of the transmitted light intensity whereas the phase mode gives a continuous change of the refractive index and thus of the phase shift of the transmitted light. By using a small concentration of diacrylate monomer and selecting the illumination conditions we have been able to create a inhomogeneous polymeric network mostly localized at both substrate surfaces and stabilize the two switching modes.

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Mullitization of Aluminium Silicate Gel (Aluminium Silicate Gel의 Mullite화)

  • 이광식;이형복;정윤중
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.26 no.5
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    • pp.625-630
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    • 1989
  • Aluminium silicate gels were prepared by gel-technique using Al(OH)3 and TEOS as starting materials. Aluminium silicate gel as formed mullite at 120$0^{\circ}C$. From this method, homogeneous mullite was formed available needle-like shaped and close compacted. As excess SiO2 mullite composition, the needle-like shaped crystal, size according to increased with SiO2, was increased from 3${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ to 7${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ but liquid phase did not affect the formation of needle-like shaped mullite. As excess Al2O3 mullite composition, the needle-shape mullite crystal could not be detected because Al2O3 acted as chunky behavior.

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Enhanced flexoelectric switching made from self-assembly of smectic liquid crystal and triallyl dopant

  • Lim, Tong-Kun;Lee, Ji-Hoon
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.175-177
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    • 2006
  • Here we report an enhanced flexoelectric switching in a self-assembled system of smectic liquid crystal and some specific dopant. The assembled unit block seemed to have electric dipole and as a result induces large flexoelectric polarization due to its asymmetric shape and shows fast switching to the electric field. The unit blocks are oriented in a helical fashion in the cell with large gap (${\sim}5{\mu}m$) and shows selective reflection property. In the thin cell (${\sim}2{\mu}m$), the unit blocks are aligned homeotropically on the bare ITO substrate with no surface treatment and shows fast decaying time.

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Shape Control and Characterization of One-dimensional ZnO Nanostructures through the Synthesis Procedure (합성절차에 따른 1차원 ZnO 나노구조의 형태조절과 특성평가)

  • Kong, Bo-Hyun;Park, Tae-Eun;Cho, Hyung-Koun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.13-17
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    • 2006
  • The one-dimensional ZnO nanostructures prepared through thermal evaporation under various cooling down procedures by changing the flow rates of the carrier gas and the reactive gas were investigated. The nanorod structures were changed into the nanonail types with a broad head through the reduction of the flow rate of the carrier gas. The decrease of the reactive gas reduced the length of the nail heads due to the limited mass transport of reactive gas. The intensity ratio of the ultraviolet emission/green emission of photoluminescence was proportional to the length of the broad head showing a larger surface area. The vertically aligned nanostructures were grown along the [0001] direction of ZnO regardless of the aligned directions. The crystal direction of the nanostructures was determined by that of the initial ZnO crystal.

Crystal Growth and Phase Transition of Piezoelectric $KAlSiO_4$ (압전성 $KAlSiO_4$ 단결정 육성 및 상변화)

  • 오광석;박봉모;정수진;이태근;박병규;김호성
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.33 no.3
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    • pp.362-370
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    • 1996
  • Kalsilite (KAlSiO4) system undergoes a displacive phase transition from hexagonal phase with p63 space group to the phase with P63mc at 886$^{\circ}C$. The flux composition having kalsilite :K2O:B2O3=1:2:2 has enabled the growth of hexagonal kalsilite with the size of 0.5~1 mm at a slow cooling rate (0.3$^{\circ}C$/hr). On decreasing the cooling rate the size has increased and pyramidal (1011) faces are newly developed with the shape of (0001) and (1010) faces. Upon stirring (1011) faces are degraded. The space group of O1 and O2 are P21221 and C2221 respectively. Their orthorombic modification O1 and O2 are synthesized at relatively low and high temperature respectively.

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