• 센서학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.360-365
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• 2019

A polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)-based film speaker is successfully fabricated with enhanced bass sound by incorporating buckled nanospring carbon nanotubes (NS-CNTs) as fillers. Various concentrations up to 1-7 wt% of uniformly dispersed buckled NS-CNTs are loaded to increase the beta (β)-phase fraction, crystallinity, and dielectric constant of the speaker, and this results in the bass part enhancement of about 19 dB full scale (dBFS) at 7 wt% filler loading of the piezoelectric film speaker.

• 한국건설순환자원학회논문집
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.332-340
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• 2023

이 연구는 나노 입자의 혼입이 시멘트 모르타르의 파괴인성치에 미치는 영향을 조사하였다. 탄소나노튜브 (carbon nanotube, CNT), 나노실리카 (nanosilica. NS), 그리고 나노 탄산칼슘 (nano calcium carbonate, NC)가 각각 혼입된 시멘트 모르타르의 3점 재하 휨강도, 압축강도, 슬럼프 실험을 수행하였다. 물시멘트비, 잔골재시멘트비가 각각 0.45, 1.5인 모르타르에 19.5 mm 강섬유가 0, 2 vol.% 혼입된 시멘트 모르타르를 사용하였다. 나노 입자 혼입은 시멘트 모르타르의 파괴인성치와 압축강도를 일부 향상시켰다. 그러나 강섬유가 보강된 시멘트 모르타르의 경우 나노 입자 혼입은 모르타르 유동성을 저하하여 강섬유의 분산도에 부정적 영향을 초래하여 오히려 파괴인성치를 감소시키는 결과를 확인할 수 있었다. 나노 입자의 혼입으로 인한 모르타르의 유동성 저하를 개선할 수 있는 추가적인 연구가 필요하다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.297.2-297.2
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• 2016

Photoacoustic generation of ultrasound is an effective approach for development of high-frequency and high-amplitude ultrasound transmitters. This requires an efficient energy converter from optical input to acoustic output. For such photoacoustic conversion, various light-absorbing materials have been used such as metallic coating, dye-doped polymer composite, and nanostructure composite. These transmitters absorb laser pulses with 5-10 ns widths for generation of tens-of-MHz frequency ultrasound. The short optical pulse leads to rapid heating of the irradiated region and therefore fast thermal expansion before significant heat diffusion occurs to the surrounding. In this purpose, nanocomposite thin films containing gold nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes (CNTs), or carbon nanofibers have been recently proposed for high optical absorption, efficient thermoacosutic transfer, and mechanical robustness. These properties are necessary to produce a high-amplitude ultrasonic output under a low-energy optical input. Here, we investigate carbon nanotube (CNT)-polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) composite transmitters and their nanostructure-originated characteristics enabling extraordinary energy conversion. We explain a thermoelastic energy conversion mechanism within the nanocomposite and examine nanostructures by using a scanning electron microscopy. Then, we measure laser-induced damage threshold of the transmitters against pulsed laser ablation. Particularly, laser-induced damage threshold has been largely overlooked so far in the development of photoacoustic transmitters. Higher damage threshold means that transmitters can withstand optical irradiation with higher laser energy and produce higher pressure output proportional to such optical input. We discuss an optimal design of CNT-PDMS composite transmitter for high-amplitude pressure generation (e.g. focused ultrasound transmitter) useful for therapeutic applications. It is fabricated using a focal structure (spherically concave substrate) that is coated with a CNT-PDMS composite layer. We also introduce some application examples of the high-amplitude focused transmitter based on the CNT-PDMS composite film.