• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• v.48 no.4
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• pp.431-449
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• 2020

Structural property of most hydrogels is soft, resulting in low mechanical performance that limits their usage in the biomedical applications. For overcoming the drawback, cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) were adopted in this study. Effects of CNCs on characteristics and drug delivery performance of poly (vinyl alcohol) based hydrogels were explored. FT-IR results showed that the fabricated hydrogels had semi-IPN (semi-interpenetrating polymer network) by formation of acetal and aldehyde bridge. Water absorption and swelling ratio decreased with increasing CNCs content, and the hydrogels with CNCs showed better viscoelastic performance than the without CNCs. Also, CNCs mostly improved the ability of the hydrogel to absorb the drug and the sustainability of the drug release. These results demonstrated that incorporating CNCs into the hydrogel systems can be a good alternative to improve drug delivery performance and mechanical property of the hydrogels.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.51-57
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• 2021

This paper analyzed the effects of the concentration of nano-silica particles contained in epoxy resin on the thermomechanical properties of the composite materials. The 12nm sized nanoparticles were mixed with epoxy polymer by 5 different weight ratios for the test samples. The glass transition temperature, stress relaxation, and thermal expansion behaviors were measured using dymanic mechanical analyzer (DMA) and thermomechanical analyzer (TMA). It was shown that the nano particle mixing ratios had significant influences on the viscoelastic behaviors of the materials. As the content of the silica particles was increased, the elastic modulus was also increased, while the glass transition temperatures were decreased. Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) results played an important role in determining the causes of the property changes by the filler contents in terms of the molecular structures, enabling the interpretations on the material behaviors based on the chemical structure changes.