• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.491-499
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• 2014

It is important to accurately measure and control the relative humidity of humidified gas entering a PEM (polymer electrolyte membrane) fuel cell stack because the level of humidification strongly affects the performance and durability of the stack. Humidity measurement devices can be used to directly measure the relative humidity, but they cost much to be equipped and occupy spaces in a fuel cell system. We present soft sensors for predicting the relative humidity without actual humidity measuring devices. By combining FIR (finite impulse response) model with PLS (partial least square) and SVM (support vector machine) regression models, DPLS (dynamic PLS) and DSVM (dynamic SVM) soft sensors were developed to correctly estimate the relative humidity of humidified gases exiting a planar-type membrane humidifier. The DSVM soft sensor showed a better prediction performance than the DPLS one because it is able to capture nonlinear correlations between the relative humidity and the input data of the soft sensors. Without actual humidity sensors, the soft sensors presented in this work can be used to monitor and control the humidity in operation of PEM fuel cell systems.

• BMB Reports
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• 제38권5호
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• pp.517-525
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• 2005

Solid phase peptide synthesis method, which was introduced by Merrifield in 1963, has spawned the concept of combinatorial chemistry. In this review, we summarize the present technologies of solid phase peptide synthesis (SPPS) that are related to combinatorial chemistry. The conventional methods of peptide library synthesis on polymer support are parallel synthesis, split and mix synthesis and reagent mixture synthesis. Combining surface chemistry with the recent technology of microelectronic semiconductor fabrication system, the peptide microarray synthesis methods on a planar solid support are developed, which leads to spatially addressable peptide library. There are two kinds of peptide microarray synthesis methodologies: pre-synthesized peptide immobilization onto a glass or membrane substrate and in situ peptide synthesis by a photolithography or the SPOT method. This review also discusses the application of peptide libraries for high-throughput bioassays, for example, peptide ligand screening for antibody or cell signaling, enzyme substrate and inhibitor screening as well as other applications.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1995년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.552-558
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• 1995

Stereolithography is a process used to rapidly produce polymer components directly from a computer-representation of the part. There are several considerations to be made for the efficient use of te process. Especially, the build-up orientation of part critically affect to the part accuracy, total build time and the volume of support structures. Te purpose of this study is to determine the optimal build-up part orientation for the SLA process with improving part accuracy, minimizing total build time, and the volume of supprot structures. The first factor is related to the area of surfaces which have staircase protrusions after solidification, the second factor is related to the total number of layers, and the third factor is related to the area of the surfaces which need to be supported with support structures. An algorithm is developed to calculate the staircase area with quantifying the process planning errors that the volume of materials is supposed to be removed or added to the part, and the optimal layer thickness for the SLA system whichcan hadle the variable layer thickness in different orientations achieved by rotating the given part to the specified finite directions. So the optimal part orientation is determined based on the user's selections of primary criterion and the optimal thickness of layers is calculated at any part orientations.

• 멤브레인
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.14-22
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• 2007

본 연구는 투과증발법을 이용하여 수용액 중 미량의 목련 향 성분을 농축하는 방법으로, PVDF/PDMS 복합막을 제조하여 지지막의 구조와 활성층의 두께에 따른 분리능의 변화를 살펴보았다. PVDF 지지막은 제막조건인 응고액의 온도가 감소하고 고분자 농도가 증가함에 따라 지지층에서의 표면공극률과 기공의 직경이 감소함을 순수투과실험을 통해서 간접적으로 확인하였고, 복합막에 대한 지지막 구조의 영향을 투과 mechanism식에 적용하여 해석하였다. 또한 PDMS의 두께가 증가됨에 따라 선택도가 증가하는 결과를 통해서, 활성층에서의 물질전달을 Fick's law에 의하여 설명하는데 제한이 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• Carbon letters
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.38-40
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• 2010

Carbon supported electrocatalysts are commonly used as electrode materials for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells(PEMFCs). These kinds of electrocatalysts provide large surface area and sufficient electrical conductivity. The support of typical PEM fuel cell catalysts has been a traditional conductive type of carbon black. However, even though the carbon particles conduct electrons, there is still significant portion of Pt that is isolated from the external circuit and the PEM, resulting in a low Pt utilization. Herein, new types of carbon materials to effectively utilize the Pt catalyst are being evaluated. Carbon nanofiber/activated carbon fiber (CNF/ACF) composite with multifunctional surfaces were prepared through catalytic growth of CNFs on ACFs. Nickel nitrate was used as a precursor of the catalyst to synthesize carbon nanofibers(CNFs). CNFs were synthesized by pyrolysising $CH_4$ using catalysts dispersed in acetone and ACF(activated carbon fiber). The as-prepared samples were characterized with transmission electron microscopy(TEM), scanning electron microscopy(SEM). In TEM image, carbon nanofibers were synthesized on the ACF to form a three-dimensional network. Pt/CNF/ACF was employed as a catalyst for PEMFC. As the ratio of prepared catalyst to commercial catalyst was changed from 0 to 50%, the performance of the mixture of 30 wt% of Pt/CNF/ACF and 70wt% of Pt/C commercial catalyst showed better perfromance than that of 100% commercial catalyst. The unique structure of CNF can supply the significant site for the stabilization of Pt particles. CNF/ACF is expected to be promising support to improve the performance in PEMFC.

• 멤브레인
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.146-151
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• 2016

술폰화 폴리아릴렌에테르술폰(SPAES) 랜덤 공중합체는 고분자 전해질 연료전지에 적용될 때 높은 수소이온전도도, 상대적으로 낮은 생산 단가 그리고 열화학적 저항성등과 같은 장점을 갖는다. 반면, SPAES 공중합체는 가혹한 구동 조건하에서 낮은 화학적 안정성과 치수 불안전성으로 인해 실제 연료전지 막에 직접적으로 적용하는데 어려움이 있다. 그에 타당한 해결책은 SPAES 공중합체를 상호 연결된 기공 구조와 높은 열화학적 강도를 가지는 지지체 필름(예 : 전기방사된 폴리이미드 지지체)에 함침시키는 것이다. 본 연구에서는 함침막 제조를 위한 이오노머로 빠른 이온 수송을 위해 높은 자유 체적을 유도하는 회전 그룹을 갖는 SPAES 공중합체를 선택하였다. 제작된 막의 실용가능성은 막 특성화를 통해 평가되었다.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.110-112
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• 2006

Membrane electrode assembly (MEA) for polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC) are commonly prepared in the research laboratory by spraying, screen-printing and brushing catalyst slurry onto membrane or other support material like carbon paper or polyimide film in a batch style. These hand applications of the catalyst slurry are painstaking process with respect to precision of catalyst loading and reproducibility. It has been generally mentioned that the adoption of continuous process is very helpful to develop the reliable product. In the present work, we report the results of using continuous type coater with doctor-blade to coat catalyst slurry for preparing the MEA catalyst layers In a faster and highly reproducible fashion. We show that while expectedly faster than batch style, the machine coater requires the use of slurry of appropriate composition and a properly selected transfer decal material in order to achieve superior MEA plat lnw loading reproducibility. To make highly viscous catalyst slurry that is imperative for using coater, we use 40wt.% Nafion solution and minimize the content of organic solvent. And the choice of proper high surface area catalyst is important in the viewpoint of making well-dispersed slurry. After catalyst coating onto the support material, we transferred the catalyst layer to both sides of Nafion membrane by hot-pressing In this case, the degree of transfer was Influenced by hot-pressing condition including temperature, pressure, and time. To compare the transferring ability, we compared so many films and detaching papers. And among the support, polyethylene terephthalate(PET) film shows the prominent result.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.223-229
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• 2013

Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) is a power generation system to convert chemical energy of fuels and oxidants to electricity directly by electrochemical reactions. As a catalyst support for PEMFCs, carbon black has been generally used due to its large surface area and high electrical conductivity. However, under certain circumstances (start up/shut down, fuel starvation, ice formation etc.), carbon supports are subjected to serve corrosion in the presence of water. Therefore, it would be desirable to switch carbon supports to corrosion-resistive support materials such as metal oxide. $TiO_2$ has been attractive as a support with its stability in fuel cell operation atmosphere, low cost, commercial availability, and the ease to control size and structure. However, low electrical conductivity of $TiO_2$ still inhibits its application to catalyst support for PEMFCs. In this paper, to explore feasibility of $TiO_2$ as a catalyst support for PEMFCs, $TiO_2$ nanofibers were synthesized by electrospinning and calcinated at 600, 700, 800 and $900^{\circ}C$. Effects of calcination temperature on crystal structure and electrical conductivity of electrospun $TiO_2$ nanofibers were examined. Electrical conductivity of $TiO_2$ nanofibers increased significantly with increasing calcination temperature from $600^{\circ}C$ to $700^{\circ}C$ and then increased gradually with increasing the calcination temperature from $700^{\circ}C$ to $900^{\circ}C$. It was revealed that the remarkable increase in electrical conductivity could be attributed to phase transition of $TiO_2$ nanofibers from anatase to rutile at the temperature range from $600^{\circ}C$ to $700^{\circ}C$.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제62권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2024

고분자 전해질 연료전지(PEMFC) 내구성에 촉매 지지체 내구성이 미치는 영향이 크다. 촉매 지지체의 가속 내구 평가는 높은 전압(1.0~1.5 V)에서 진행되어 촉매층의 촉매와 이오노머 바인더도 같이 열화되어 지지체 내구성 평가에 방해가 된다. 내구성 평가대상인 지지체가 더 열화되는 조건을 찾고자 기존의 프로토콜 (DOE 프로토콜)을 개선하였다. 상대습도를 35% 낮추고 전압변화 횟수를 감소시킨 프로토콜 (MDOE)을 개발하였다. 1.0 ↔ 1.5 V 전압변화 사이클 반복 후에 촉매 비활성도 (MA)와 전기화학적 활성면적 (ECSA), 전기이중층 용량 (DLC), Pt 용해와 입자 성장 등을 분석하였다. 비활성도 감소 40% 도달하는데 MDOE 프로토콜은 500 사이클 밖에 안되어 DOE방법보다 전압변화 횟수를 감소시키면서 카본 지지체 열화를 DOE 프로토콜보다 50% 증가시킬 수 있었다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제44회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.642-642
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• 2013

Graphene, two dimensional single layer of carbon atoms, has tremendous attention due to its superior property such as high electron mobility, high thermal conductivity and optical transparency. Especially, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) grown graphene has been used as a promising material for high quality and large-scale graphene film. Unfortunately, although CVD-grown graphene has strong advantages, application of the CVD-grown graphene is limited due to ineffective transfer process that delivers the graphene onto a desired substrate by using polymer support layer such as PMMA(polymethyl methacrylate). The transferred CVD-grown graphene has serious drawback due to remaining polymeric residues generated during transfer process, which induces the poor physical and electrical characteristics by a p-doping effect and impurity scattering. To solve such issue incurred during polymer transfer process of CVD-grown graphene, various approaches including thermal annealing, chemical cleaning, mechanical cleaning have been tried but were not successful in getting rid of polymeric residues. On the other hand, lithographical patterning of graphene is an essential step in any form of microelectronic processing and most of conventional lithographic techniques employ photoresist for the definition of graphene patterns on substrates. But, application of photoresist is undesirable because of the presence of residual polymers that contaminate the graphene surface consistent with the effects generated during transfer process. Therefore, in order to fully utilize the excellent properties of CVD-grown graphene, new approach of transfer and patterning techniques which can avoid polymeric residue problem needs to be developed. In this work, we carried out transfer and patterning process simultaneously with no polymeric residue by using a metal etch mask. The patterned thin gold layer was deposited on CVD-grown graphene instead of photoresists in order to make much cleaner and smoother surface and then transferred onto a desired substrate with PMMA, which does not directly contact with graphene surface. We compare the surface properties and patterning morphology of graphene by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force microscopy(AFM) and Raman spectroscopy. Comparison with the effect of residual polymer and metal on performance of graphene FET will be discussed.