• Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.183-187
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• 2012

Specimens of five softwood species were heat-treated at three temperature levels of $170^{\circ}C$, $190^{\circ}C$ and $210^{\circ}C$. Their FSP's were measured by the volumetric Swelling Method. Within a species the FSP decreases as the temperature of heat treatment increases. The FSP's of the controls range from 21.0% to 32.5%, while those of the specimens heat-treated at $210^{\circ}C$ from 18.7% to 35.3%. There was no difference of basic density between the heat-treated and control specimens.

• Journal of the Korea Furniture Society
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.163-168
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• 2012

Specimens of seven hardwood species were heat-treated at three temperature levels of 170, 190 and $210^{\circ}C$. Their FSP's were measured by the volumetric swelling method and compared with the control's. Within a species the FSP decreases as the temperature of heat treatment increases. The FSP's of the controls range from 26.1 to 29.6%, while those of the specimens heat-treated at $210^{\circ}C$ from 16.9 to 21.8%. There were no difference of basic density between the heat-treated and control specimens. The color indexes of ash and beech specimens were measured using a colorimeter. It was revealed that the temperature of heat treatment affected on the color more than the treatment time.

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1995 no.11
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• pp.253-256
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• 1995

Polymers have been one of the emerging biomedical materials in the area of biomedical research which are applicable to the human body. For human applications, noninvasive characterization of the biomedical polymers has been one of the important topics, and is valuable information. Among others, the swelling rate is one of the important measurements needed for the hydrophilic polymers. NMR imaging has been a suitable method for the noninvasive study of such a material since it is sensitive to many physical and biochemical changes of the specimens. In addition, NMR techniques possess many useful intrinsic properties such as the relaxation and diffusion effects. The present study has provided a noble and noninvasive method of measuring the process of swelling as well as volumetric changes occurred in polymers and drug delivery processes in a drug delivery system (DDS) together with changes of released drug. This gives information, relating with both water ingress process, volumetric changes of polymer specimens and the visualization of sequential drug delivery process. Also, this study provides more reliable method to ascertain the time dependent swelling process compared to the conventional method. The important aspects is that the proposed method is truly noninvasive and is able to ascertain time dependent processes.