• Macromolecular Research
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.559-564
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• 2006

The improvement of spatial resolution is a fundamental issue in the two-photon, polymerization-based, laser writing. In this study, a voxel tuning method using a radical quencher was proposed to increase the resolution, and the quenching effect according to the amount of radical quencher was experimentally investigated. Employing the proposed method, the lateral resolution of the line patterns was improved almost to 100 nm. However, a shortcoming of the quenching effect was the low mechanical strength of polymerized structures due to their short chain lengths. Nano-indentation tests were conducted to evaluate quantitatively the relationship between mechanical strength and the mixture ratio of the radical quencher into the resins. The elastic modulus was dramatically reduced from an average value of 3.015 to 2.078 GPa when 5 wt% of radical quencher was mixed into the resin. Three-dimensional woodpile structures were fabricated to compare the strength between the resin containing radical quencher and the original resin.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제28권7호
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• pp.1221-1223
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• 2007

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제31권7호
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• pp.2011-2014
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• 2010

The fluorescence intensity of a single-stranded oligonucleotide containing a fluorene-labeled deoxyuridine $(U^{Fl})$ unit increases by only 1.5-fold upon formation of its perfectly matched duplex. To increase the fluorescence signal during hybridization, we positioned a quencher strand containing a deoxyguanine (dG) nucleobase, functioning as an internal quencher, opposite to the $U^{Fl}$ unit to reduce the intrinsic fluorescence upon hybridization with a probe. From an investigation of the optimal length of the quencher strand and the effect of the neighboring base sequence, we found that a short strand (five-nucleotide) containing all natural nucleotides and dG as an internal quencher was effective at reducing the intrinsic fluorescence of a linear beacon; it also exhibited high total discrimination factors for the formation of perfectly matched and single base-mismatched duplexes. Such assays that function based on clear changes in fluorescence in response to single-base nucleotide mutations would be useful tools for accelerating diagnoses related to various diseases.

• 식품기술
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.757-769
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• 2009

• 청정기술
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.42-53
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• 2017

탈질과 탈황을 동시에 수행하는 과산화수소($H_2O_2$) 수용액 세정탑의 반응효율을 증가시키기 위해 예혼합이 이루어지는 혼합 냉각기(mixing quencher) 영역 내부의 유체유동에 대한 수치해석이 수행되었다. 산업공정에서 상용화되고 있는 세정탑 전단부의 혼합냉각기에서 과산화수소 수용액이 주입되는 노즐의 분사방식은 배기가스와 과산화수소 수용액의 혼합에 중요한 역할을 하며, 혼합냉각기에서의 혼합도는 세정탑 의 효율을 결정하는 중요 요소가 된다. 본 연구에서는 혼합냉각기 내부유체의 농도분포 개선을 목적으로 하여 혼합냉각기 내의 노즐 관의 배열을 조절하거나 노즐 팁 각도를 변경하며 유체혼합을 최적화하였다. 전산해석은 이 냉각기영역의 내부유동 및 각 유체 농도에 대한 RMS (root mean square) 값을 계산하여 내부유체의 혼합도의 개선을 확인하였다. 세부적으로는 노즐 관의 위치를 조절할 때 변경되는 냉각기 영역 후단의 농도 RMS 값을 확인하여 난류형성위치에 따른 최적화된 혼합도를 확인하였으며 기본형상 대비 난류형성방향을 조절하는 목적의 노즐 팁 각도를 증감하여 농도분포의 균질화를 비교하였다. 노즐 관의 배열에 따라 난류형성위치와 그에 따른 유체혼합이 해석되었다. 또한 노즐 팁 각도를 조절하는 경우에는 유동방향과의 각도에 따라, 흐름이 병류와 향류에 따라 혼합도의 최적화를 확인할 수 있었다. 노즐 관의 위치는 0.3 m, 노즐 팁은 병류의 $15^{\circ}$일 때 최적의 조건을 가지며 가장 낮은 RMS 값인 12.4%를 가졌다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.325-331
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• 1992

By using the general theoretical framework proposed recently for treating the fluorescence quenching kinetics, we investigate the effect of light pulse intensity on the decay of fluorescence which follows excitation of fluorophors by the light pulse of very short but finite duration. It is seen that conventional theory breaks down when the exciting light pulse has a pulse width comparable to the fluorescent lifetime and its intensity is very high. We also find that even when the light intensity is not too high, conventional theory may fail in either of the following cases: (i) when the quencher concentration is high, (ii) when there is an attractive potential of mean force between the fluorophor and quencher, or (iii) when the energy transfer from the fluorophor to the quencher may also occur at a distance, e.g., via dipole-dipole interaction. The validity of the predictions of the present theory may thus be tested by fluorescence quenching experiments performed under such situations.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.316-318
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• 2012

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.714-719
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• 2004

Controlling the cure depth of the Fa1260T photopolymer enhances the quality of a microstructure and minimizes its size in microstereolithography. In this work, variation of cure depth of the Fa1260T photopolymer is investigated while the concentration of a photopolymerization inhibitor as a radical quencher was varied. The energy source inducing photopolymerization was a He-Cd laser and a motorized stage controled the laser beam path accurately. The effects of process variables such as laser beam power and scan speed on the cure depth were examined. Optimum conditions for the minimum cure depth were determined as laser power of 230 W and scan speed of 40-50 m/s at the concentration of the radical quencher of 5％. The minimum cure depth at the optimal condition was 14 m. The feasibility of the fabrication of microstructures such as a microcup, microfunnel, and microgrid of 100 m size is demonstrated using Super IH process.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2016

The graphene oxides (GOs) were tested as a fluorescent quencher in the field of DNA-diagnostics. The various suspensions of GO nanoplates were prepared by changing the synthesis conditions. The suspensions were stable for at least 6 weeks by differing degrees of functionalization of various oxygen-containing groups of atoms. Depending on the properties of GO nanoplates, their fluorescent quenching abilities, which were determined by the amount of the tagged immobilized oligonucleotide, were also changed. GO suspension synthesized at $75^{\circ}C$ of reaction mixture showed the fluorescent quenching of 16.39 nmol/mg, which would be a potential substitution of molecular fluorescent quencher in test-systems for DNA-diagnostics.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제27권12호
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• pp.2002-2010
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• 2006

This study examined the quenching of ofloxacin (OFL) and flumequine (FLU) fluorescence by $Cuj^{2+}$, $Ni^{2+}$, $Co^{2+}$ and $Mn^{2+}$ in an aqueous solution. The change in the fluorescence intensity and lifetime was measured at various temperatures as a function of the quencher concentration. According to the Stern-Volmer plots, the fluorescence emission was quenched by both collisions (dynamic quenching) and complex formation (static quenching) with the same quencher but the effect of static quenching was larger than that of dynamic quenching. Large static and dynamic quenching constants for both OFL and FLU support significant ion-dipole and orbital-orbital interactions between fluorophore and quencher. For both molecules, the static and dynamic quenching constants by $Cu^{2+}$ were the largest among all the metal quenchers examined in this study. In addition, both the static and dynamic quenching mechanisms by $Cu^{2+}$ were somewhat different from the quenching caused by other metals. Between $Ni^{2+}$ and FLU, a different form of chemical interaction was observed compared with the interaction by other metals. The change in the absorption spectra as a result of the addition of a quencher provided information on static quenching. With all these metals, the static quenching constant of FLU was larger than those of OFL. The fluorescence of OFL was quite insensitive to both the dynamic and static quenching compared with FLU. This property of OFL can be explained by the twisted intramolecular charge transfer in the excited state.