• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권12호
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• pp.4431-4440
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• 2022

An advanced nuclear reactor based on molten salts including a molten salt reactor and pyroprocessing needs a sensitive monitoring system suitable for operation in harsh environments with limited access. Multi-element detection is challenging with the conventional technologies that are compatible with the in-situ operation; hence laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) has been investigated as a potential alternative. However, limited precision is a chronic problem with LIBS. We increased the precision of LIBS under high temperature by protecting optics using a gas protective layer and correcting for shotto-shot variance and lens-to-sample distance using a laser-induced acoustic signal. This study investigates cerium as a surrogate for uranium and corrosion products for simulating corrosive environments in LiCl-KCl. While the un-corrected limit of detection (LOD) range is 425-513 ppm, the acoustic-corrected LOD range is 360-397 ppm. The typical cerium concentrations in pyroprocessing are about two orders of magnitude higher than the LOD found in this study. A LIBS monitoring system that adopts these methods could have a significant impact on the ability to monitor and provide early detection of the transient behavior of salt composition in advanced molten salt-based nuclear reactors.

• Carbon letters
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• 제28권
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• pp.1-8
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• 2018

Graphene is a single atomic layer of carbon atoms, and has exceptional electrical, mechanical, and optical characteristics. It has been broadly utilized in the fields of material science, physics, chemistry, device fabrication, information, and biology. In this review paper, we briefly investigate the ideas, structure, characteristics, and fabrication techniques for graphene applications in lithium ion batteries (LIBs). In LIBs, a constant three-dimensional (3D) conductive system can adequately enhance the transportation of electrons and ions of the electrode material. The use of 3D graphene and graphene-expansion electrode materials can significantly upgrade LIBs characteristics to give higher electric conductivity, greater capacity, and good stability. This review demonstrates several recent advances in graphene-containing LIB electrode materials, and addresses probable trends into the future.

• 한국분말재료학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.170-176
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• 2016

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are rapidly improving in capacity and life cycle characteristics to meet the requirements of a wide range of applications, such as portable electronics, electric vehicles, and micro- or nanoelectro-mechanical systems. Recently, atomic layer deposition (ALD), one of the vapor deposition methods, has been explored to expand the capability of LIBs by producing near-atomically flat and uniform coatings on the shell of nanostructured electrodes and membranes for conventional LIBs. In this paper, we introduce various ALD coatings on the anode, cathode, and separator materials to protect them and improve their electrochemical and thermomechanical stability. In addition, we discuss the effects of ALD coatings on the three-dimensional structuring and conduction layer through activation of electrochemical reactions and facilitation of fluent charge collection.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제55권4호
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• pp.307-324
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• 2018

Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have been rapidly expanding from IT based applications to uses in electric vehicles (EVs), smart grids, and energy storage systems (ESSs), all of which require low cost, high energy density and high power density. The increasing demand for LIBs has resulted in increasing price of the lithium source, which is a major obstacle to wider application. To date, the possible depletion of lithium resources has become relevant, giving rise to the interest in Na-ion batteries (NIBs) as promising alternatives to LIBs. A lot of transition metal compounds based on conversion-alloying reaction have been extensively investigated to meet the requirement for the anodes with high energy density and long life-time. In-depth understanding the electrochemical reaction mechanisms for the transition metal compounds makes it promising negative anode for NIBs and provides feasible strategy for low cost and large-scale energy storage system in the near future.

• 분석과학
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.121-130
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• 2019

Alumina is one of the most important ceramic materials because of its useful physical and chemical properties. Recently, high-purity alumina has been used in various industrial fields. This leads to increasing demand for reliable elemental analysis of impurities in alumina samples. However, the chemical inertness of alumina makes the sample preparation for conventional elemental analysis a tremendously difficult task. Herein, we demonstrated the feasibility of laser ablation for effective sampling of alumina powder. Laser ablation performs sampling rapidly without any chemical reagents and also allows simultaneous optical emission spectroscopy and mass spectrometry analyses. For six alumina samples including certified reference materials and commercial products, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and laser-ablation inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) analyses were performed simultaneously based on a common laser ablation sampling. LIBS was found to be useful to quantify alkali and alkaline earth metals with limits-of-detection (LODs) around 1 ppm. LA-ICP-MS could quantify transition metals such as Ti, Cu, Zn, and Zr with LODs in the range from a few tens to hundreds ppb.

• 센서학회지
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.462-469
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• 2023

Electric vehicles (EVs) have recently been in the spotlight and have been rapidly developed to reduce the carbon emission with respect to the transport sector. Most EVs currently employ lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) as power sources because they have a higher energy density and a lower self-discharge than other batteries. However, the LIBs cannot respond to high power demands when the state of health (SOH) falls below 80%. Therefore, the SOH of the LIBs must be accurately measured or estimated. To date, many methods have been studied and proposed for measuring or estimating the SOH. In this paper, representative methods among them are reclassified and introduced.

• 멤브레인
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.337-350
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• 2016

향후 우리 사회의 혁신적 변화를 가져올 휴대용 전자기기, 전기자동차 및 스마트 그리드 에너지 저장장치 등의 비약적인 발전에 따라, 그 전원으로서 리튬이차전지에 대한 관심이 더욱 증대하고 있다. 본 총설에서는, 리튬이차전지 핵심 소재 중 하나인 분리막에 대해 기공 구조 및 물리화학적 물성 관점에서 고찰하고, 이와 함께 최신 연구 동향을 소개하고자 한다. 리튬이차전지 분리막은 양극과 음극 사이에 위치하는 다공성 막으로서, 두 전극 간의 전기적 단락을 방지하고, 이온의 흐름을 가능하게 하는 기능을 갖는다. 분리막 자체는 전지 내 전기화학 반응에는 직접적으로 참여하지 않으나, 앞서 언급한 기능들에 의해 전지 성능 및 안전성에 큰 영향을 끼친다. 최근 들어, 이러한 분리막의 기본 특성 이외에, 전지 안전성 강화 및 금속 이온 흡착 등을 비롯한 다양한 기능 부여를 위한 노력들이 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 총설에서는 현재 상업화된 폴리올레핀 분리막에 대한 이해를 토대로, 개질 폴리올레핀 분리막, 부직포 분리막, 세라믹 복합 분리막 및 화학 활성 분리막 등으로 대표되는 최신 분리막 기술들을, 차세대 전지 개발 방향과 관련 지어 기술하고자 한다.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제26권6호
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• pp.477-484
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• 2016

선풍기, 오디오, 전기밥솥 등의 소형 산업가전제품들은 대부분 ABS, PP, PS 등의 재질로 이루어져 있다. 색깔이 있는 플라스틱은 근적외선(NIR) 분광기에 의해 분류가 가능하지만, 반면에 검은색 플라스틱은 빛을 흡수하는 특성으로 인해 분류하기가 어렵다. 그래서 본 연구에서는 LIBS(Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy) 분광기를 통해 폐소형가전 플라스틱을 선별하는 RBFNNs(Radial Basis Function Neural Networks) 패턴 분류기를 소개한다. 전처리부분에는 차원축소 알고리즘 중 하나인 PCA(Principal Component Analysis)를 사용해 처리 속도를 향상시킬 뿐만 아니라 효과적인 데이터의 특성을 추출한다. 조건부에는 FCM(Fuzzy C-Means) 클러스터링을 사용한다. 결론부에는 다항식의 형태 중 하나인 1차 선형식을 연결가중치로서 사용한다. PSO와 5-fold cross validation은 성능의 신뢰도를 향상시키고, 분류율을 높이는데 사용된다. 제안된 분류기의 성능은 최적화한 것과 최적화하지 않은 것 두 가지의 관점에서 보여준다.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.1259-1264
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• 2014

수소는 미래 에너지원 중 하나로서, 이미 여러 산업분야와 항공우주 분야에서 널리 사용되고 있다. 수소는 작은 분자크기로 인해 수송관이나 저장탱크의 작은 금으로부터 쉽게 가스 누설이 일어난다. 본 연구에서는 소량의 수소 누설을 측정하기 위한 탐지 기술을 개발하기 위하여 레이저 유도 플라스마 분광법을 이용하였다. Al, Cu, SUS등 세 가지의 금속을 가지고, 각 금속이 플라스마 발생 및 signal에 미치는 영향과 반복적인 레이저 조사로 인한 표면의 손상을 표면전자현미경(SEM)으로 관찰하고, 표면 손상이 signal에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 연구결과 Al을 이용한 경우 signal의 세기가 다른 두 금속에 비해 좋으며, 표면 손상으로 인한 signal의 영향 또한 다른 금속에 비해 Al을 사용 시 원자광의 변화가 약 $100W/m^2$ 적은 것으로 관찰되었다.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.100-107
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• 2021

As a significant technology in the smartization era promoted by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the secondary battery industry has recently attracted significant attention. The demand for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), which exhibit excellent performance, is considerably increasing in different industrial fields. During the manufacturing process of LIBs, it is necessary to join the cathode and anode sheets with thicknesses of several tens of micrometers to lead taps of the cathode and anode with thicknesses of several hundreds of micrometers. Ultrasonic welding exhibits excellent bonding when bonded with very thin plates, such as negative and positive electrodes of LIBs, and dissimilar and highly conductive materials. In addition, ultrasonic welding has a small heat-affected zone. In LIBs, Cu is mainly used as the negative electrode sheet, whereas Cu or Ni is used as the negative electrode tab. In this study, one or two electrode sheets (t0.025 mm Cu) were welded to one lead tab (t0.1 mm Cu). The welding energy and pressure were used as welding parameters to determine the welding strength of the interface between two or three welded materials. Finally, the effects of these welding parameters on the welding strength were investigated.