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음이온교환막 수전해 촉매기술 동향 (Research Trend in Electrocatalysts for Anion Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis)

  • 김지영;이기영
    • 전기화학회지
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    • 제25권2호
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    • pp.69-80
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    • 2022
  • 고순도 수소생산을 위한 음이온 교환막 수전해는 양성자 교환막 수전해 시스템에서 사용되는 기존 귀금속 촉매 대신 저렴한 비귀금속 기반 촉매를 사용하여 차세대 녹색 수소 생산 기술로 많은 관심을 받고 있다. 하지만 음이온 교환막 수전해 기술은 개발 초기 단계이기 때문에 음이온 교환막 수전해의 핵심 요소인 음이온 교환막, 이오노머, 전극지지체 및 촉매에 관한 연구 수행이 필요하다. 그 중, 현재 촉매 분야에서 진행되고 있는 연구들은 기개발된 알칼리용 반쪽전지 촉매를 음이온 교환막 시스템에 적용하는 방향의 연구가 진행되고 있으며 적용된 촉매는 낮은 활성도와 내구성의 문제점을 가진다. 이에 본 총설은 알칼리성 매질에서 비귀금속 기반 촉매를 사용하여 산소발생반응 및 수소발생반응을 촉진시킨 촉매 합성 기술을 제시하였다.

Review of the Current Research on Fetal Bovine Serum and the Development of Cultured Meat

  • Lee, Da Young;Lee, Seung Yun;Yun, Seung Hyeon;Jeong, Jae Won;Kim, Jae Hyeon;Kim, Hyun Woo;Choi, Jung Seok;Kim, Gap-Don;Joo, Seon Tea;Choi, Inho;Hur, Sun Jin
    • 한국축산식품학회지
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    • 제42권5호
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    • pp.775-799
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this review is to summarize studies that investigate blood and the main components of fetal bovine serum (FBS) in vertebrates, including major livestock, and review the current research on commercializing cultured meat. Detailed research on FBS is still lacking; however, some studies have shown that FBS consists of proteins, carbohydrates, growth factors, cytokines, fats, vitamins, minerals, hormones, non-protein nitrogen, and inorganic compounds. However, there are few studies on how the composition of FBS differs from blood or serum composition in adult animals, which is probably one of the main reasons for not successfully replacing FBS. Moreover, recent studies on the development of FBS replacers and serum-free media have shown that it is difficult to conclude whether FBS has been completely replaced or serum-free media have been developed successfully. Our review of the industrialization of cultured meat reveals that many basic studies on the development of cultured meat have been conducted, but it is assumed that the study to reduce or replace ingredients derived from fetuses such as FBS has not yet been actively developed. Therefore, developing inexpensive and edible media is necessary for the successful industrialization of cultured meat.

A comparison of using a smartphone versus a surgical microscope for microsurgical anastomosis in a non-living model

  • Jianmongkol, Surut;Vinitpairot, Chaiyos;Thitiworakarn, Navapong;Wattanakamolchai, Settapon
    • Archives of Plastic Surgery
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    • 제49권1호
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    • pp.121-126
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    • 2022
  • Background Although they may not replace standard training methods that use surgical microscopes, smartphones equipped with high-resolution screens and high-definition cameras are an attractive alternative for practicing microsurgical skills. They are ubiquitous, simple to operate, and inexpensive. This study compared anastomoses of chicken femoral vessels using a smartphone camera versus a standard operative microscope. Methods Forty anastomoses of non-living chicken femoral vessels were divided into four groups. A resident and an experienced microsurgeon performed anastomoses of femoral chicken vessels with 8-0 and 10-0 sutures, using a smartphone camera and a surgical microscope. The time to complete the anastomosis and the number of anastomosis errors were compared using the Mann-Whitney U test. Results The time taken to perform an anastomosis by the experienced microsurgeon was significantly longer when using the smartphone (median: 32.5 minutes vs. 20 minutes, P<0.001). The resident completed the anastomoses with both types of equipment without a significant difference in the operative times. When using a smartphone, the operation times were not significantly different between the resident and the experienced microsurgeon (P=0.238). The resident showed non-significant differences in operation time and the number of errors when using a smartphone or an operative microscope (P=1.000 and P=0.065, respectively). Conclusions Microsurgical practice with non-living chicken femoral vessels can be performed with a smartphone, though it can take longer than with an operative microscope for experienced microsurgeons. The resident may also experience frustration and tend to make more anastomosis errors when using a smartphone versus an operative microscope.

3D 프린팅으로 제작된 AlCrFeNi 고엔트로피 합금의 분말 입도에 따른 특성 분석 (A Study on Powder Size Dependence of Additive Manufactured AlCrFeNi HEA on Its Microstructure and Mechanical Properties)

  • 최종우;박혜진;강결찬;정민섭;오기태;홍성환;김현길;김기범
    • 한국분말재료학회지
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    • 제29권1호
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    • pp.22-27
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    • 2022
  • Conventionally, metal materials are produced by subtractive manufacturing followed by melting. However, there has been an increasing interest in additive manufacturing, especially metal 3D printing technology, which is relatively inexpensive because of the absence of complicated processing steps. In this study, we focus on the effect of varying powder size on the synthesis quality, and suggest optimum process conditions for the preparation of AlCrFeNi high-entropy alloy powder. The SEM image of the as-fabricated specimens show countless, fine, as-synthesized powders. Furthermore, we have examined the phase and microstructure before and after 3D printing, and found that there are no noticeable changes in the phase or microstructure. However, it was determined that the larger the powder size, the better the Vickers hardness of the material. This study sheds light on the optimization of process conditions in the metal 3D printing field.

IT 기기의 마이너스 전원 생성 시 문제점에 관한 분석 (Analysis of Problems when Generating Negative Power for IT devices)

  • 전호익;이현창
    • 한국소프트웨어감정평가학회 논문지
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    • 제16권2호
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    • pp.109-115
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    • 2020
  • 본 논문에서는 어댑터나 배터리에 의해 단일전원을 공급받는 IT기기에서, 저렴한 buck 소자를 이용해 마이너스 전압을 발생할 때 발생하는 문제점을 분석하였다. 원인 분석을 위해 buck 소자의 동작원리와 inverter 회로의 원리를 살펴보고, buck 소자를 이용해 inverter 회로를 구성했을 떄의 회로적 특성을 분석하였다. 분석 결과 buck 소자를 이용한 inverter회로는 초기에 큰 기동전류가 필요함을 확인하였으며, 특히 전원을 공급하는 회로에서 기동전류에 미치지 못하는 전류용량일 경우 래치 업 현상과 유사한 상태에 빠질 수 있음을 확인하였다. 분석결과를 확인하기위해 실험회로를 구성하고 입력전류를 확인한 결과, 공급전류가 충분한 경우 과전류가 흐르면서 기동됨을 확인하고, 공급전류가 충분치 않은 경우에는 회로가 기동하지 못해 래치 업 현상이 발생해 회로 전체가 위험상태에 도달함을 확인하였다.

ANALYSIS OF THIN FILM POLYSILICON ON GLASS SYNTHESIZED BY MAGNETRON SPUTTERING

  • Min J. Jung;Yun M. Chung;Lee, Yong J.;Jeon G. Han
    • 한국표면공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국표면공학회 2001년도 추계학술발표회 초록집
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    • pp.68-68
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    • 2001
  • Thin films of polycrystalline silicon (poly-Si) is a promising material for use in large-area electronic devices. Especially, the poly-Si can be used in high resolution and integrated active-matrix liquid-crystal displays (AMLCDs) and active matrix organic light-emitting diodes (AMOLEDs) because of its high mobility compared to hydrogenated _amorphous silicon (a-Si:H). A number of techniques have been proposed during the past several years to achieve poly-Si on large-area glass substrate. However, the conventional method for fabrication of poly-Si could not apply for glass instead of wafer or quartz substrate. Because the conventional method, low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) has a high deposition temperature ($600^{\circ}C-1000^{\circ}C$) and solid phase crystallization (SPC) has a high annealing temperature ($600^{\circ}C-700^{\circ}C$). And also these are required time-consuming processes, which are too long to prevent the thermal damage of corning glass such as bending and fracture. The deposition of silicon thin films on low-cost foreign substrates has recently become a major objective in the search for processes having energy consumption and reaching a better cost evaluation. Hence, combining inexpensive deposition techniques with the growth of crystalline silicon seems to be a straightforward way of ensuring reduced production costs of large-area electronic devices. We have deposited crystalline poly-Si thin films on soda -lime glass and SiOz glass substrate as deposited by PVD at low substrate temperature using high power, magnetron sputtering method. The epitaxial orientation, microstructual characteristics and surface properties of the films were analyzed by TEM, XRD, and AFM. For the electrical characterization of these films, its properties were obtained from the Hall effect measurement by the Van der Pauw measurement.

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산업보건서비스체계의 효율적 관리방안에 관한 연구 (A Study on Reforming the Occupational Health Care System is Korea)

  • 문옥륜;한동운;최병순;최재욱;하은희;이기효;장동민
    • 보건행정학회지
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    • 제4권1호
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    • pp.138-175
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    • 1994
  • The objectives of this study are (i) to review current situations and problems of the occupational health care system with emphasis on reforming the organizations and services, (ii) to find out a disirable occupational health system model based on integration of the occupational health system and the general health system, and finally, (iii) to suggest policy implications in occupational health services in the light of objectives of the newly emerging national health insurance reform in Korea. The major policy implications of this study are as follows: 1. In the long-run, within the occupational health system, preventive occupational health services such as employees' physical check-up, working environment examination, etc should financially be integrated with industrial accident compensation insurance. Currently separately paying expenses for each different category of services by the owner of an enterprise should be disbursed once through the payment of contributions of industrial accident compensation insurance. And then, it is necessary to strengthen and expand the role and function of industrial accident compensation insurance to cover preventive occupational health services. 2. The occupational health system should be integrated with general health system for its effective management. For the short-term policy, it is necessary to eliminate fiscal and access barrier between industrial accident compensation insurance and national health insurance by means of ex post facto settlement of accounts. The duplication of employees' physical check- ups between under the health insurance program and under the industrial health services must be coordinated in a manner either through mutual authorization by the two parties concerned or through merge into the health insurance. 3. The intent of current employees' physical check-up system focused on detection of occupational diseases, should be converted to an idea of medical surveillance system or biological moritoring system. The introduction of medical surveillance or biological monitoring system is a necessary condition to build a positive, effective and inexpensive occupational health care system.

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Predicting rock brittleness indices from simple laboratory test results using some machine learning methods

  • Davood Fereidooni;Zohre Karimi
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • 제34권6호
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    • pp.697-726
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    • 2023
  • Brittleness as an important property of rock plays a crucial role both in the failure process of intact rock and rock mass response to excavation in engineering geological and geotechnical projects. Generally, rock brittleness indices are calculated from the mechanical properties of rocks such as uniaxial compressive strength, tensile strength and modulus of elasticity. These properties are generally determined from complicated, expensive and time-consuming tests in laboratory. For this reason, in the present research, an attempt has been made to predict the rock brittleness indices from simple, inexpensive, and quick laboratory test results namely dry unit weight, porosity, slake-durability index, P-wave velocity, Schmidt rebound hardness, and point load strength index using multiple linear regression, exponential regression, support vector machine (SVM) with various kernels, generating fuzzy inference system, and regression tree ensemble (RTE) with boosting framework. So, this could be considered as an innovation for the present research. For this purpose, the number of 39 rock samples including five igneous, twenty-six sedimentary, and eight metamorphic were collected from different regions of Iran. Mineralogical, physical and mechanical properties as well as five well known rock brittleness indices (i.e., B1, B2, B3, B4, and B5) were measured for the selected rock samples before application of the above-mentioned machine learning techniques. The performance of the developed models was evaluated based on several statistical metrics such as mean square error, relative absolute error, root relative absolute error, determination coefficients, variance account for, mean absolute percentage error and standard deviation of the error. The comparison of the obtained results revealed that among the studied methods, SVM is the most suitable one for predicting B1, B2 and B5, while RTE predicts B3 and B4 better than other methods.

Fe 함량에 따른 Ti-5Mo-xFe 준안정 베타 합금의 압축 변형거동 변화 (Change of Compressive Deformation Behaviors of Ti-5Mo-xFe Metastable Beta Alloy According to Fe Contents)

  • 이용재;이재관;이동근
    • 열처리공학회지
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    • 제36권5호
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    • pp.303-310
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    • 2023
  • β titanium alloys are widely used in aerospace industry due to their excellent specific strength and corrosion resistance. In particular, mechanical properties of metastable β titanium can efficiently be controlled by various deformation mechanisms such as slip, twinning, and SIM (Stress-Induced Martensite Transformation), making it an ideal material for many industrial applications. In this study, Ti-5Mo-xFe (x=1, 2, 4 wt%) alloy was designed by adding a relatively inexpensive β element to ensure price competitiveness. Additionally, microstructural analysis was conducted using OM, SEM, and XRD, while mechanical properties were evaluated through hardness and compression tests to consider the deformation mechanisms based on the Fe content. SIMT occurred in all three alloys and was influenced by the presence of βm (metastable beta) and beta stability. As the Fe content decreased, the α'' phase increased due to SIMT occurring within the βm phase, resulting in softening. Conversely, as the Fe content increased, the strength of the alloy increased due to a reduction in α'' formation and the contributions of solid solution strengthening and grain strengthening. Moreover, unlike the other alloys, shear bands were observed only in the fracture of the Ti-5Mo-4Fe alloy, which was attributed to differences in texture and microstructure.

Fundamental Metrology by Counting Single Flux and Single Charge Quanta with Superconducting Circuits

  • Niemeyer, J.
    • Progress in Superconductivity
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    • 제4권1호
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2002
  • Transferring single flux quanta across a Josephson junction at an exactly determined rate has made highly precise voltage measurements possible. Making use of self-shunted Nb-based SINIS junctions, programmable fast-switching DC voltage standards with output voltages of up to 10 V were produced. This development is now extended from fundamental DC measurements to the precise determination of AC voltages with arbitrary waveforms. Integrated RSFQ circuits will help to replace expensive semiconductor devices for frequency control and signal coding. Easy-to-handle AC and inexpensive quantum voltmeters of fundamental accuracy would be of interest to industry. In analogy to the development in the flux regime, metallic nanocircuits comprising small-area tunnel junctions and providing the coherent transport of single electrons might play an important role in quantum current metrology. By precise counting of single charges these circuits allow prototypes of quantum standards for electric current and capacitance to be realised. Replacing single electron devices by single Cooper pair circuits, the charge transfer rates and thus the quantum currents could be significantly increased. Recently, the principles of the gate-controlled transfer of individual Cooper pairs in superconducting A1 devices in different electromagnetic environments were demonstrated. The characteristics of these quantum coherent circuits can be improved by replacing the small aluminum tunnel Junctions by niobium junctions. Due to the higher value of the superconducting energy gap ($\Delta_{Nb}$$7\Delta_{Al}$), the characteristic energy and the frequency scales for Nb devices are substantially extended as compared to A1 devices. Although the fabrication of small Nb junctions presents a real challenge, the Nb-based metrological devices will be faster and more accurate in operation. Moreover, the Nb-based Cooper pair electrometer could be coupled to an Nb single Cooper pair qubit which can be beneficial for both, the stability of the qubit and its readout with a large signal-to-noise ratio..

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