• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1990.02a
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• pp.193-198
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• 1990

We constructed Langmuir trough for the ultra-thin films (from a few tens {{{{ ANGSTROM }}) of nonlinear optical organic materials. Surface pressure - area isotherm for the tetracosanoic acid which is a fatty acids, was recorded and Langmuir -Blodgett films was deposited using it. The homogenity was investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM).

• Membrane Journal
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.32-36
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• 1996

Acylated chitosan derivatives with several kind of acyl chain length were synthesized. Using trough, monolayers of the acylated chitosan derivatives were formed. Limiting area per glucose unit and temperature dependence of $\pi-A$ curves were determined. Multilayers were prepared by horizontal dipping method.

• BMB Reports
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• v.44 no.10
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• pp.674-679
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• 2011

Bacillus sphaericus produces mosquito-larvicidal binary toxin composed of BinA and BinB. While BinB is expected to bind to a specific receptor on the cell membrane, BinA interacts to BinB or BinB receptor complex and translocates into the cytosol to exert its activity via unknown mechanism. To investigate functional roles of aromatic cluster in BinA, amino acids at positions Y213, Y214, Y215, W222 and W226 were substituted by leucine. All mutant proteins were highly produced and their secondary structures were not affected by these substitutions. All mutants are able to insert into lipid monolayers as observed by Langmuir-Blodgett trough and could permeabilize the liposomes in a similar manner as the wild type. However, mosquito-larvicidal activity was abolished for W222L and W226L mutants suggesting that tryptophan residues at both positions play an important role in the toxicity of BinA, possibly involved in the cytopathological process after toxin entry into the cells.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.61-62
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 대표적인 양친매성분자인 Arachidic acid를 이용하여 박막을 제작하였으며, 층수 변화에 따른 표면이미지와 전압-전류 특성을 측정하였다. Arachidic acid 는 포화지방산으로 ($CH_3(CH_2)_{18}$ COOH)의 구조를 가지며, 크기가 $27.5{\AA}$으로 $CH_3(CH_2)_{18}$의 소수기와 COOH의 친수기로 구성되어 있어, Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) Trough을 사용하여 박막제작과 분자제어가 쉽다. Chloroform을 용매로 하여 2 mmol/l의 농도를 조성하여 ${\pi}$-A 등온선을 통해 기체 상태, 액체 상태, 고체 상태를 관찰하였다. LB 막의 제작 및 평가에서 막의 안정성은 ${\pi}$-A 곡선, AFM(Atomic force microscopy) 등을 통하여 확인하였다. 또한 LB 막을 Metal/유기물 LB막/Metal 구조의 소자로 제작하여 전압-전류 특성을 측정하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.394-395
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 Arachidic acid Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) 막의 표면이미지와 전압-전류 특성을 측정하였다. Arachidic acid는 포화지방산으로 ($CH3(CH_2)_{18}$ COOH)의 구조를 가지며, 크기가 $27.5\;{\AA}$으로 $CH_3(CH_2)_{18}$의 소수기와 COOH의 친수기로 구성되어 있어, LB Trough를 사용하여 박막제작과 분자제어가 쉽다. Chloroform을 용매로 하여 2mmol/l의 농도를 조성하여 ${\pi}$-A 등온선을 통해 기체 상태, 액체 상태, 고체 상태를 관찰하였다. LB막의 제작 및 평가에서 막의 안정성은 ${\pi}$-A곡선, AFM (Atomic force microscopy) 등을 통하여 확인 하였다. 또한 LB 막을 Metal/LB막/Metal 구조의 소자로 제작하여 전압-전류 특성을 측정하였다.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.111-116
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• 2008

Collapsed perflurostearic acid (PFS) films were prepared on the different pH and the various metal ion ($Na^+$, $Ca^{2+}$, $La^{3+}$) containing subphase using Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) trough. The degree of ionization of collapsed PFS film formed from floating monolayer has been determined by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. The intensity of C = O of -COOH peaks of collapsed PFS decreased with increasing pH of subphase. The order of ionization of collapsed PFS on the subphase of the same pH was $La^{3+}$ > $Ca^{2+}$ > $Na^+$. The degree of ionization of collapsed PFS on the Deionized (D.I.) water subphase is above 50% even at subpahse pH 3, which is much higher degree of ionization than that of stearic acid.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.264-264
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• 2013

Strong metal-support interaction effect is an important issue in determining the catalytic ac-tivity for heterogeneous catalysis. In this study, we investigated the support effect and the role of organic capping layers of two-dimensional Pt nanocatalysts on reducible metal oxide supports under the CO oxidation. Several reducible metal oxide supports including CeO2, Nb2O5, and TiO2 thin films were prepared via sol-gel techniques. The structure, chemical state and optical property were characterized using XRD, XPS, TEM, SEM, and UV-VIS spectrometer. We found that the reducible metal oxide supports have a homogeneous thin thickness and crystalline structure after annealing at high temperature showing the different optical band gap energy. Langmuir-Blodgett technique and arc plasma deposition process were employed to ob-tain Pt nanoparticle arrays with capping and without capping layers, respectively on the oxide support to assess the role of the supports and capping layers on the catalytic activity of Pt catalysts under the CO oxidation. The catalytic performance of CO oxidation over Pt supported on metal oxide thin films under oxidizing reaction conditions (40 Torr CO and 100 Torr O2) was tested. The results show that the catalytic activity significantly depends on the metal oxide support and organic capping layers of Pt nanoparticles, revealing the strong metal-support interaction on these nanocatalysts systems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.08a
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• pp.211-211
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• 2011

Nanostructures, with a diversity of shapes, built on substrates have been developed within many research areas. Lithography is one powerful, but complex, technique to make structures at the nanometer scale, such as platinum nanowires for studying CO catalytic reactions [1], or aluminum nanodisks for studying the plasmon effect [2]. In this work, we approach a facile method to construct nanostructures using noble metals on a titania thin film by using self-assembled structures as a pattern. Here, a large-scale silica monolayer is transferred to the titania thin film substrates using a Langmuir-Blodgett trough, followed by the deposition of a thin transition metal layer. Owing to the hexagonal close-packed structure of the silica monolayer, we would obtain a metal nanostructure that includes separated metallic triangles (islands) after removing the patterning silica beads. This nanostructure can be employed to investigate the role of metal-oxide interfaces in CO catalytic reactions by changing the patterning silica particles with different sizes or by replacing the oxide support. The morphology and chemical composition of the structure can be characterized by scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. In addition, we modify these islands to a connected island structure by reducing the silica size of the patterning monolayer, which is utilized to generating hot electron flow based on the localized surface plasmon resonance effect of the metal nanostructures.