• 전기화학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.47-54
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• 2018

동일 전극 로딩 조건(${\sim}15mg\;cm^{-2}$)에서 면적당 용량($mAh\;cm^{-2}$)을 극대화하기 위해, 고분자 바인더의 함량을 4, 2, 1 wt%로 줄인 $LiNi_{0.5}Co_{0.2}Mn_{0.3}O_2$ 전극을 제조하였다. 바인더 함량이 1 wt%로 낮춘 경우, 압연 후 펀칭 과정에서 전극 코팅층이 부분적으로 박리되는 문제가 발생하여 추가 분석은 진행되지 않았다. 전극 내 바인더 함량을 4 wt%에서 2 wt%로 줄이면, 계면 접착력은 0.4846에서 $0.2627kN\;m^{-1}$로 약 46% 감소하고, 전극 코팅층의 강도도 3.847에서 2.013 MPa로 약 48%가 떨어졌다. 그러나, 두 전극을 리튬 전극과 반쪽 전지로 구성하여 전기화학적 특성을 살펴보면, 초기 방전 용량과 충방전 효율은 유사하였다. 하지만, 단기 수명 평가에서 2 wt% 바인더 전극은 수명 특성이 떨어질 뿐만 아니라, 전지를 분해하는 과정에서 전극 코팅층이 집전체에서 박리되는 현상이 관찰되었다. 반면, 4 wt% 바인더 전극은 높은 전극 로딩조건에서도 전극 코팅층과 집전체 계면이 잘 유지되고 있음이 확인되었다.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.23-31
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• 2004

For the fabrication of high efficient bifunctional electrocatalyst of oxygen electrode for PEM URFC (Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Unitized Regenerative Fuel Cell), which is a promising energy storage and conversion system using hydrogen as the energy medium, several bifunctional electrocatalysts were prepared and tested in a single cell URFC system. The catalysts for oxygen electrode revealed fuel cell performance in the order of Pt black > PtIr > PtRuOx > PtRu ~ PtRuIr > PtIrOx, whereas water electrolysis performance in the order of PtIr ~ PtIrOx > PtRu > PtRuIr > PtRuOx ~ Pt black. Considering both reaction modes PtIr was the most effective elctrocatalyst for oxygen electrode of present PEM URFC system. In addition, the water electrolysis performance was significantly improved when Ir or IrOx was added to Pt black just 1 wt.% without the decrease of fuel cell performance. Based on the catalyst screening and the optimization of catalyst composition and loading, the optimum catalyst electrodes for PEM URFC were $1.0mg/cm^2$ of Pt black as hydrogen electrode and $2.0mg/cm^2$ of PtIr (99:1) as oxygen electrode.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.523-530
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• 2019

For the low-Pt electrodes for polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEMFCs), the optimization of ionomer content for anode catalyst layers was carried out. A commercial catalyst of 20 wt.% Pt/C was used instead of 50 wt.% Pt/C which is commonly used for PEMFCs. The ionomer content varies from 0.6 to 1.2 based on ionomer to carbon ratio (I/C) and the catalyst layer is formed over the electrolyte by the ultrasonic spray process. Evaluation of the prepared MEA in the unit cell showed that the optimal ionomer content of the air electrode was 0.8 on the I/C basis, while the hydrogen electrode was optimal at the relatively high ionomer content of 1.0. In addition, a large difference in cell performance was observed when the ionomer content of the hydrogen electrode was changed. Increasing the ionomer content from 0.6 to 1.0 by I/C in a hydrogen electrode with 0.05 mg/㎠ platinum loading resulted in more than double cell performance improvements on a 0.6 V. Through the analysis of various electrochemical properties in the single cell, it was assumed that the change in ionomer content of the hydrogen electrode affects the water flow between the hydrogen and air electrodes bounded by the membrane in the cell, which affects the overall performance of the cell. A more specific study will be carried out to understand the water flow mechanism in the future, and this study will show that the optimization process of hydrogen electrode can also be a very important cell design variable for the low-Pt and high-performance MEA.

• 전기화학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.155-163
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• 2019

우수한 수명특성을 지니는 흑연과 높은 용량을 지니고 있는 실리콘 일산화물의 혼합전극을 제조하여 리튬이온 이차전지용 음극으로 적용하여 이의 사이클 성능에 대하여 평가하였다. 천연흑연과 실리콘 일산화물을 9:1의 질량비로 혼합하여 제조한 전극은 $480mAh\;g^{-1}$의 가역용량으로 천연흑연에 비하여 33% 이상의 높은 용량을 나타내었다. 그러나, 실리콘 일산화물의 부피변화로 인하여 용량의 퇴화가 지속적으로 발생하였다. 본 연구에서는 전극 및 전해질의 구성에 변수들을 적용하여 각각의 변수가 영향을 주는 전기화학적 특성을 파악하고 이를 통하여 사이클 수명을 향상시킬 수 있는 방안을 모색하고자 하였다. 전극 제조 시에 poly(vinylidene fluoride)(PVdF) 바인더에 비하여 carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) 바인더는 가장 우수한 사이클 특성을 나타내었으며, CMC와 styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR)을 함께 사용하는 SBR/CMC 바인더의 경우에는 CMC 단독 바인더를 사용하는 경우와 유사한 사이클 특성과 동시에 속도특성에서 장점을 지니고 있었다. 전해액 첨가제로 fluoroethylene carbonate (FEC)를 적용하는 경우에 수명특성이 크게 개선되었다. FEC의 함량이 10 질량%로 높아지게 되면 전지의 속도특성이 저하되기 때문에 5 질량%의 사용이 적절하였다. 또한 전극의 로딩값을 낮추게 되면 사이클 특성을 크게 향상시킬 수 있었으며, 집전체를 사포로 연마하여 거칠기를 증가시키는 것도 사이클 특성의 개선을 가져올 수 있었다.

• 한국에너지공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국에너지공학회 2004년도 추계 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.133-138
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• 2004

Proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is considered as a clean and efficient energy conversion det ice for mobile and stationary applications. Anions all the components of the PEMFC, the interface between the electrolyte ,and electrode catalyst plays an important role in determining tile cell performance since the electrochemical reactions take place at the interface in contact with tile reactant gases. Therefore, to increase the interface area and obtain a high-performance PEMFC, surface of the electrolyte membrane was roughened by Ar$^{+}$ beam bombardment. The results imply that by modifying surface of the electrolyte membrane, platinum loading can be reduced significantly without performance loss. To optimize the surface treatment condition, effects of ion dose density on characteristics of the membrane/electrode interface were examined by measuring the cell performance, impedance spectroscopy, and cyclic voltammograms. Surface of the modified membranes were characterized using scanning electron microscopy and FT-IR.R.

• Journal of Electrochemical Science and Technology
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.199-207
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• 2022

Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs) have emerged as a promising alternative to lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) owing to their high energy density and economic viability. In addition, all-solid-state LSBs, which use solid-state electrolytes, have been proposed to overcome the polysulfide shuttle effect while improving safety. However, the high interfacial resistance and poor ionic conductivity exhibited by the electrode and solid-state electrolytes, respectively, are significant challenges in the development of these LSBs. Herein, we apply a poly (ethylene oxide) (PEO)-based composite solid-state electrolyte with oxide Li₇La₃Zr₂O₁₂ (LLZO) solid-state electrolyte in an all-solid-state LSB to overcome these challenges. We use an electrochemical method to evaluate the degradation of the all-solid-state LSB in accordance with the carbon content and loading weight within the cathode. The all-solid-state LSB, with sulfur-carbon content in a ratio of 3:3, exhibited a high initial discharge capacity (1386 mAh g^-1), poor C-rate performance, and capacity retention of less than 50%. The all-solid-state LSB with a high loading weight exhibited a poor overall electrochemical performance. The factors influencing the electrochemical performance degradation were revealed through systematic analysis.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2008년도 International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.993-994
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• 2008

Electrochromic (EC) devices are capable of reversibly changing their optical properties upon charge injection and extraction induced by the external voltage. The characteristics of the EC device, such as low power consumption, high coloration efficiency, and memory effects under open circuit status, make them suitable for use in a variety of applications including smart windows and electronic papers. Coloration due to reduction or oxidation of redox chromophores can be used for EC devices (e-paper), but the switching time is slow (second level). Recently, with increasing demand for the low cost, lightweight flat panel display with paper-like readability (electronic paper), an EC display technology based on dye-modified $TiO_2$ nanoparticle electrode was developed. A well known organic dye molecule, viologen, was adsorbed on the surface of a mesoporous $TiO_2$ nanoparticle film to form the EC electrode. On the other hand, ZnO is a wide bandgap II-VI semiconductor which has been applied in many fields such as UV lasers, field effect transistors and transparent conductors. The bandgap of the bulk ZnO is about 3.37 eV, which is close to that of the $TiO_2$ (3.4 eV). As a traditional transparent conductor, ZnO has excellent electron transport properties, even in ZnO nanoparticle films. In the past few years, one-dimension (1D) nanostructures of ZnO have attracted extensive research interest. In particular, 1D ZnO nanowires renders much better electron transportation capability by providing a direct conduction path for electron transport and greatly reducing the number of grain boundaries. These unique advantages make ZnO nanowires a promising matrix electrode for EC dye molecule loading. ZnO nanowires grow vertically from the substrate and form a dense array (Fig. 1). The ZnO nanowires show regular hexagonal cross section and the average diameter of the ZnO nanowires is about 100 nm. The cross-section image of the ZnO nanowires array (Fig. 1) indicates that the length of the ZnO nanowires is about $6\;{\mu}m$. From one on/off cycle of the ZnO EC cell (Fig. 2). We can see that, the switching time of a ZnO nanowire electrode EC cell with an active area of $1\;{\times}\;1\;cm^2$ is 170 ms and 142 ms for coloration and bleaching, respectively. The coloration and bleaching time is faster compared to the $TiO_2$ mesoporous EC devices with both coloration and bleaching time of about 250 ms for a device with an active area of $2.5\;cm^2$. With further optimization, it is possible that the response time can reach ten(s) of millisecond, i.e. capable of displaying video. Fig. 3 shows a prototype with two different transmittance states. It can be seen that good contrast was obtained. The retention was at least a few hours for these prototypes. Being an oxide, ZnO is oxidation resistant, i.e. it is more durable for field emission cathode. ZnO nanotetropods were also applied to realize the first prototype triode field emission device, making use of scattered surface-conduction electrons for field emission (Fig. 4). The device has a high efficiency (field emitted electron to total electron ratio) of about 60%. With this high efficiency, we were able to fabricate some prototype displays (Fig. 5 showing some alphanumerical symbols). ZnO tetrapods have four legs, which guarantees that there is one leg always pointing upward, even using screen printing method to fabricate the cathode.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제32권10호
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• pp.831-835
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• 2008

We present a continuous electrical cell lysis chip, using a DC bias voltage to generate the focused high electric field for cell lysis as well as the electroosmotic flow for cell transport. The previous cell lysis chips apply an AC voltage between micro-gap electrodes for cell lysis and use pumps or valves for cell transport. The present DC chip generates high electrical field by reducing the width of the channel between a DC electrode pair, while the previous AC chips reducing the gap between an AC electrode pair. The present chip performs continuous cell pumping without using additional flow source, while the previous chips need additional pumps or valves for the discontinuous cell loading and unloading in the lysis chambers. The experimental study features an orifice whose width and length is 20 times narrower and 175 times shorter than the width and length of a microchannel. With an operational voltage of 50 V, the present chip generates high electric field strength of 1.2 kV/cm at the orifice to disrupt cells with 100% lysis rate of Red Blood Cells and low electric field strength of 60 V/cm at the microchannel to generate an electroosmotic flow of $30{\mu}m/s{\pm}9{\mu}m/s$. In conclusion, the present chip is capable of continuous self-pumping cell lysis at a low voltage; thus, it is suitable for a sample pretreatment component of a micro total analysis system or lab-on-a-chip.

• 한국강구조학회 논문집
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.711-723
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• 2012

플랜지와 웨브에 서로 강도가 다른 이종강재를 사용한 CFT 합성구조의 거동특성을 파악하기 위하여, 플랜지는 건축용 800MPa급 강재인 HSA800, 웨브에는 일반강도 강재인 SM490 강재를 사용하여 실험연구를 수행하였다. 주요실험 변수는 강관의 강도 조합, 충전된 콘크리트의 강도, 콘크리트 충전효과이다. 이종강재간의 용접접합부는 낮은강도 강재에 적합한 용접부를 사용하여 접합부 성능을 검증하였다. 실험체의 거동특성을 평가하기 위해 편심압축 실험을 수행하였으며, 현행 설계기준들에 따른 예측결과와 비교하였다. 플랜지에 고강도 강재를 적용함에 따라 단면의 축강도 및 휨모멘트강도가 증가하였으며, 부재 강도를 충분히 발현한 이후 용접부에서 파괴가 일어났다. 실험결과 현행 설계기준을 적용하여 합성단면의 축력-모멘트 상관관계 및 유효휨강성을 안전측으로 예측 가능하였다.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 2006년 추계학술발표대회 개요집
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• pp.225-227
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• 2006

As rail steel at a crossing area must undergo much higher loading than those at regular railway, Mn-alloyed steel is normally used for its high load-carrying capability and reduced wear rate. However, as these Mn-alloyed steel is tend to have casting defects, manufacturing cost to produce defect-free Mn-alloyed steel becomes quite expensive. Therefore, in order to replace Mn-alloyed steel, we performed build-up welding using CH-90 and investigated regarding to wear characteristics of build-up weld metal.