• Carbon letters
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.219-237
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• 2014

The element carbon has been used as a source of energy for the past few hundred years, and now in this era of technology, carbon has played a significant and very prominent role in almost all fields of science and technology. So as an honour to this marvellous element, we humans should know about its various forms of existence. In this review article, we shed light on all possible carbon-allotropes; similarities in their synthesis techniques and the starting materials; their wide range of possible availability; and finally, future perspectives and applications. A brief introduction is given on the types, structures, and shapes of the allotropes of carbon for a better understanding.

• Carbon letters
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.37-43
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• 2001

Mercury has been identified as a potential health and environmental hazardous material. Activated carbon adsorption offers promising potential for the control of mercury emissions, and sulfur impregnated (sulfurized) activated carbons has been shown to be an effective sorbent for the removal of vapor phase $Hg{\circ}$ from sources. In this work, vapor phase mercury adsorption by sulfur impregnated activated carbons were investigated. Sulfur impregnated activated carbons were made by variation of impregnation temperature, and the comparison of adsorption characteristics with commercial virgin and sulfurized carbons were made. Factors affecting the adsorption capacity of virgin and sulfurized activated carbons such as pore characteristics, functional groups and sulfur impregnation conditions were discussed. It was found that the sulfur allotropes plays a critical role in adsorption of mercury vapor by sulfurized activated carbons.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.126-127
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• 2018

Carbon has numerous allotropes and various crystalline forms with full dimensionalities such as diamond, graphite, fullerenes, and carbon nanotubes leading a wide range of applications. Since the emerge of graphene consisting of a single atomic layer of carbon atoms, a fabrication of all-carbon-based device with combination of one-, two-, and three-dimensional carbons has become a hot issue. Here, we introduce an ultimate one-dimensional carbon atomic chain. Carbon atomic chains were experimentally created by removing atoms from monolayer graphene sheet under electron beam inside transmission electron microscope (TEM). A series of TEM images demonstrate the dynamics of carbon atomic chains over time from the formation, transformation, and then breakage.

• 한국수소및신에너지학회논문집
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.780-786
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• 2011

Mg hydride had high hydrogen capacity (7.6%), lightweight and low cost materials and it was promising hydrogen storage material at high temperature. However, commercial applications of the Mg hydride are currently hindered by its high absorption/desorption temperature, and very slow reaction kinetics. one of the approaches to improve the kinetic is $MgH_x$ intermixed with carbon. And it shows that carbon and carbon allotropes have a beneficial effect on hydrogen sorption in Mg. The graphene is a kind of carbon allotropes which is easily desorbed reaction at low temperatures because its reaction is exothermic. In this work, the effect of graphene concentration on the kinetics of Mg hydrogen absorption reaction was investigated. The $MgH_x$-Graphene composites has been prepared by hydrogen induced mechanical alloy (HIMA). The synthesized powder was characterized by XRD and simultaneous TG, DSC analysis. The hydrogenation behaviors were evaluated by using a sievert's type automatic PCT apparatus. In this research, results of kinetic profiles exhibit hydrogen absorption rate of $MgH_x$-5wt.% and 10wt.% graphene composite, as 1.25wt.%/ms, 10.33wt.%/ms against 0.88wt.%/ms for $MgH_x$ alone at 473K.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.245-251
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• 2017

Multiwalled carbon-nanotubes (MWCNT) and micro-structured carbon, such as biochar or activated carbon (AC), have been seen to significantly increase the growth indices of certain plant species such as maize (Zea mays L.). Seed imbibition is the stage where environmental factors that affect water transport across the seed coat barrier, make a large impact. This work explores the effect on water imbibition by maize seeds when the aqueous environment surrounding the seed is diluted by small concentrations (10 and 20 mg/l) of pristine MWCNT (p-MWCNT), carboxylate functionalized MWCNT (COO-MWCNT) and AC. The degree of sensitivity of the process to (i) large structural changes is seen by utilizing the nano (the MWCNT) and the micro (the AC) allotropic forms of carbon; (ii) to small changes in the purity and morphology of the p-MWCNT by utilizing 95% pure and 99% pure p-MWCNTs of slightly differing morphologies; and (iii) to MWCNT functionalization by using highly pure (97%) COO-MWCNT. Water imbibition was monitored over a 15 hour period by Near Infrared Thermography (NIRT) and also by seed weighing. Seed surface topography was seen by SEM imaging. Analysis of the NIRT images suggests rapid seed surface topological changes with the quantity of water imbibed. While further work is necessary to arrive at a conclusive answer, this work shows that the imbibition phase of the maize seed is sensitive to the presence of MWCNT even to small differences in the purity of the p-MWCNT and to small differences in the physicochemical properties of the medium caused by the hydrophilic COO-MWCNT.

• 전기화학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.162-173
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• 2022

우리의 삶에 있어 새로운 물질의 개발/발견은 전 세계의 환경 및 에너지 문제를 해결하는 데 필수적인 열쇠이다. 이러한 관점에서 결정성 탄소계 2차원 재료는 벌집 또는 sp/sp² 하이브리드 구조의 탄소 소재의 전기 전도도, 화학적 안정성, 표면 공학 등 다양한 관점에서 오랜 시간 동안 연구되어 왔다. 특히, 그래핀을 포함한 새로운 2차원 탄소 소재 개발은 신재생 에너지 분야에서 수십 년 동안 지속적으로 개발되고 있다. 구체, 입방체 등의 다양한 구조 형태의 금속나노입자와 함께 복합화하여 시너지 효과를 낼 수 있는 탄소동소체가 연구되고 있으며, 이를 통하여 신재생 에너지 분야의 디바이스 성능이 획기적으로 향상되고 있다. 본 총설에서는 2D 탄소동소체 재료, 그래핀 및 그라파인의 연구 방향과 재생 에너지 분야의 성능을 향상시키기 위한 응용 방법을 소개하고자 한다.

• Carbon letters
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• 제26권
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• pp.81-87
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• 2018

Morphological differences in multi-layered graphene flakes or graphene nanoplatelets prepared by oxidative (rGO-NP, reduced graphene oxide-nanoplatelets) and non-oxidative (GIC-NP, graphite intercalation compound-nanoplatelets) routes were investigated with various analytical methods. Both types of NPs have similar specific surface areas but very different structural differences. Therefore, this study proposes an effective and simple method to identify structural differences in graphene-like allotropes. The adsorptive potential peaks of rGO-NP attained by the density functional theory method were found to be more scattered over the basal and non-basal regions than those of GIC-NP. Raman spectra and high resolution TEM images showed more distinctive crystallographic defects in the rGO-NP than in the GIC-NP. Because the R-ratio values of the edge and basal plane of the sample were maintained and relatively similar in the rGO-NP (0.944 for edge & 1.026 for basal), the discrepancy between those values in the GIC-NP were found to be much greater (0.918 for edge & 0.164 for basal). The electrical conductivity results showed a remarkable gap between the rGO-NP and GIC-NP attributed to their inherent morphological and crystallographic properties.

• 멤브레인
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.101-119
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• 2021

깨끗한 물에 대한 수요는 우리 사회가 인간의 삶을 개선하기 위해 점점 더 진보되고 수준 높은 기술을 개발함에도 불구하고 모든 현대 사회에 존재한다. 그러나 지구 기후 변화가 전 세계 여러 지역에서 더욱 극적인 영향을 미치기 시작하면서 폐수를 처리하거나 인체 건강에 해로운 박테리아, 미생물, 바이러스 및 기타 용매를 제거하기 위해 저렴하고 효과적인 방법에 대한 요구가 계속되고 있고 그 어느 때보다 중요하다. 폴리아닐린(PANI), 폴리(비닐리덴 플루오라이드)(PVDF) 등으로 구성되어 있는 합성막은 잘 구축되어 있고 막의 특성과 성능에 관한 정보를 수집하기 위해 광범위하게 연구되었지만 최근 연구에 따르면 이러한 합성막을 전류에 전도성 있게 만드는 것으로 나타났다. 다른 물질로 막을 도핑하거나 탄소 동소체와 같은 전도성 물질을 막 표면에 통합함으로써 기공 크기의 조정 가능성, 더 나은 방오성과 항균성을 허용함으로써 이러한 막의 성능을 증가시키는 것으로 나타났다. 본 총설에서는 현대의 전기 전도성 막을 기존 막과 비교하고 전기장 하에서의 성능 향상과 물여과 및 폐수 처리 응용 분야에서의 잠재력에 대해 논의한다.