• 한국분말재료학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.95-101
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• 2016

Carbon nanofiber (CNF) composites coated with spindle-shaped $Fe_2O_3$ nanoparticles (NPs) are fabricated by a combination of an electrospinning method and a hydrothermal method, and their morphological, structural, and chemical properties are measured by field-emission scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. For comparison, CNFs and spindle-shaped $Fe_2O_3$ NPs are prepared by either an electrospinning method or a hydrothermal method, respectively. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) fabricated with the composites exhibit enhanced open circuit voltage (0.70 V), short-circuit current density ($12.82mA/cm^2$), fill factor (61.30%), and power conversion efficiency (5.52%) compared to those of the CNFs (0.66 V, $11.61mA/cm^2$, 51.96%, and 3.97%) and spindle-shaped $Fe_2O_3$ NPs (0.67 V, $11.45mA/cm^2$, 50.17%, and 3.86%). This performance improvement can be attributed to a synergistic effect of a superb catalytic reaction of spindle-shaped $Fe_2O_3$ NPs and efficient charge transfer relative to the one-dimensional nanostructure of the CNFs. Therefore, spindle-shaped $Fe_2O_3$-NP-coated CNF composites may be proposed as a potential alternative material for low-cost counter electrodes in DSSCs.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제44회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.243-244
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• 2013

Over the past 15 years, several groups have incorporated radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ) based instruments before the accelerator in accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) systems for ion-gas interactions at low kinetic energy (＜40 eV). Most AMS systems arebased on a tandem accelerator, which requires negative ions at injection. Typically, AMS sensitivity abundance ratios for radioactive-to-stable isotope are limited to Xr/Xs ＞10^-15, and the range of isotopes that can be analyzed is limited because of theneed to produce rather large negative ion beams and the presence of atomic isobaric interferences after stripping. The potential of using low-kinetic energy ion-gas interactions for isobar suppression before the accelerator has been demonstrated for several negative ion isobar systems with a prototype RFQ system incorporated into the AMS system at IsoTrace Laboratory, Canada (Ontario, Toronto). Requisite for any such RFQ system applied to very rare isotope analysis is large transmission of the analyte ion. This requires proper phase-space matching between the RFQ acceptance and the ion beam phase space (e.g. 35 keV, ${\varphi}3mm$, +-35 mrad), and the ability to control the average ion energy during interactions with the gas. A segmented RFQ instrument is currently being designed at Korea Institute for Science and Technology (한국과학기술연구원, KIST). It will consist of: a) an initial static voltage electrode deceleration region, to lower the ion energy from 35 keV down to ＜40 eV at injection into the first RFQ segment; b) the segmented quadrupole ion-gas interaction region; c) a static voltage electrode re-acceleration region for ion injection into a tandem accelerator. Design considerations and modeling will be discussed. This system should greatly lower the detection limits of the 6 MV AMS system currently being commissioned at KIST. As an example, current detection sensitivity of 41Ca/Ca is limited to the order of 10^-15 while the 41Ca/Ca abundance in modern samples is typically 41Ca/Ca~10^-14 - 10^-15. The major atomic isobaric interference in AMS is 41K. Proof-of-principal work at IsoTrace Lab. has demonstrated that a properly designed system can achieve a relative suppression of KF3-/41CaF3- ＞4 orders of magnitude while maintaining very high transmission of the 41CaF3- ion. This would lower the 41Ca detection limits of the KIST AMS system to at least 41Ca/Ca~10^-19. As Ca is found in bones and shells, this would potentially allow direct dating of valuable anthropological archives and archives relevant to our understanding of the most pronounced climate change events over the past million years that cannot be directly dated with the presently accessible isotopes.

• 분석과학
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.308-314
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• 2007

방사흐름 전지를 연결한 고성능 액체 크로마토그래프를 사용하여 독소루비신, 에피루비신, 노갈라마이신, 다우노루비신 및 아이다루비신을 동시에 정량 할 수 있는 역상 크로마토그래피법을 개발하였다. 안트라사이클린계 항생제들은 이동상 용매 중에서 은/염화은 (0.01 M NaCl) 기준전극에 대하여 확산 전류를 나타내는 -0.74 V에서 검출되었다. 부피 흐름속도 ($V_f$)를 1.0 mL/min로 고정하였을 때 독소루비신, 에피루비신, 다우노루비신 및 아이다루비신은 각각 6.4 분, 7.4분, 12.7분 및 18.4분의 머무름 시간 ($t_r$)에서 나타났으며, $V_f$ 0.6 mL/min 에서는 독소루비신, 에피루비신, 노갈라마이신, 다우노루비신 및 아이다루비신의 $t_r$은 각각 9.9분, 11.5분, 13.5분, 19.6분 및 28.7분에서 나타났다. 주입된 각각의 안트라사이클린계 항생제의 농도 ($2.40{\times}10^{-7}M{\sim}1.42{\times}10^{-5}M$)에 대하여 봉우리 면적 (전하)를 도시하였을 때 상관계수의 제곱 ($R^2$)은 0.999 이상으로 직선 성이 우수하였다. 다섯 가지 안트라사이클린계 항생제의 검출한계는 $1.0{\times}10^{-8}M{\sim}1.5{\times}10^{-7}M$이었으며 정밀도는 $0.7{\mu}M$ 이하의 농도를 제외하고는 상대 표준편차3%($1.00{\times}10^{-6}M{\sim}1.42{\times}10^{-5}M$) 미만이었다. 사람의 혈청 중에 포함된 $1.00{\times}10^{-5}M$ 에피루비신, $0.48{\times}10^{-5}M$ 노갈라마이신 및 $1.52{\times}10^{-5}M$ 다우노루비신을 $C_{18}$ 카트리지로 고상 추출하였을 때 회수율은 각각 97%, 100% 및 90% 이었다.