• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제24권6호
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• pp.802-804
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• 2003

The relative stabilities of weak binding clusters are sensitive to temperature due to the entropy effect. Thus, here we report significant changes in relative stabilities between two low-energy electron-water trimer structures and those between three low-energy electron-water pentamer structures, as the temperature increases. The trimer and pentamer show structural changes around 200 K.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.247-256
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• 1981

Silica bricks had been in arc-furnace roofs of various sizes and steelmaking practices. The resulting materials were examined with reference to mineral and chemical changes. Silica bricks develope definite zones while in service. These zones represent a concentration gradient through the brick that results from the thermal gradient across the brick and from the furnace atmosphere. There are major brick losses by spalling as well as by melting of the hot-face surface in an iron-oxide rich liquid.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.69-71
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• 1989

Effects of SDS and temperature on the conformational changes of bacteriorhodopsin were studied using a, b, c bands of bacteriorhodopsin. In the SDS denaturation, bacteriorhodopsin in purple membrane was more labile than bacteriorhodopsin reconstituted into PC vesicles. These rather interesting results may be understood by effective SDS concentration in lipid layer.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 1997

We investigated the influence of various known sterilization methods on atrazine assimilation. The present study was designed to investigate the effect of autoclaving, sodium azide and mercuric chloride treatment on the assimilation of atrazine in soil and sediment. The sterilization reactor treated with sodium azide resulted in $^{14}CO_2$ generation and atrazine was rapidly disappeared from reactor through chemical reaction with sodium azide. These findings seem to indicate that sodium azide sterilization is not recommended for atrazine studies. In sample reactors autoclaved or treated with mercuric chloride, $^{14}CO_2$ generation was not detected and most of the disappeared atrazine was found to exist as hydroxyatrazine. These results suggested that autoclaving or mercuric chloride treatment could be effective sterilization methods. However, chemical properties(pH and redox potential) of soil and sediment were altered by any of the sterilization methods applied. So it was suspected that these altered properties could affect distribution and mineralization of atrazine in soil and sediment. In addition, both autoclaving and mercuric chloride treatment have altered $K_d$ values of hydroxyatrazine more significantly than those of atrazine. Consequently, although autoclaving and mercuric chloride treatment are effective sterilization methods, one must be careful in using them in practice as these methods may cause chemical degradation of both of atrazine and its metabolites and changes in chemical properties of soil and sediment. In conclusion, careful assessment of sterilization methods must be made for the degradation studies of chemicals in soil and sediment in order to minimize possible undesirable chemical degradation of sample and/or changes in physico-chemical properties of soil and sediment by the selected sterilization methods.

• Macromolecular Research
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.122-127
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• 2003

A glass-like carbon was fabricated using furan resin. The influence of heat treatment temperature during fabrication process on the chemical and micro-structural changes was studied by various analytical and spectroscopic methods including TGA, FT-IR, CHN, TEM and XRD. The chemical resistance properties of the fabricated glass-like carbon were also investigated. It has been found that the heat-treated samples at higher temperature up to 2600 $^{\circ}C$ in $N_2$ atmosphere had little weight loss, small amounts of functional groups, and high carbon content. The fabricated glass-like carbons upon heat treatment at 2600 $^{\circ}C$ showed an amorphous stage without any grain growth and/or reconstruction of structure. The glass-like carbon had much better chemical resistance than the artificial graphite, and exhibited a high chemical resistance due to its low surface areas, minimum impurities, and low graphite crystallites.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.1555-1560
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• 2010

Quantum dots (QDs) are extensively employed for biomedical research as a fluorescence reporter and their use for various labeling applications will continue to increase as they are preferred over conventional labeling methods for various reasons. However, concerns have been raised over the toxicity of these particles in the biological system. Till date no thorough investigation has been carried out to identify the molecular signatures of QD mediated toxicity. In this study we evaluated the toxicity of CdSe, $Cd_{1-x}Zn_xS$/ZnS and CdSe/ZnS quantum dots having different spectral properties (red, blue, green) using human embryonic kidney fibroblast cells (HEK293). Cell viability assay for both short and long duration exposure show concentration material dependent toxicity, in the order of CdSe > $Cd_{1-x}Zn_xS$/ZnS > CdSe/ZnS. Genome wide changes in the expression of genes upon QD exposure was also analyzed by wholegenome microarray. All the three QDs show increase in the expression of genes related to apoptosis, inflammation and response towards stress and wounding. Further comparison of coated versus uncoated CdSe QD-mediated cell death and molecular changes suggests that ZnS coating could reduce QD mediated cytotoxicity to some extent only.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.67-74
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• 2023

This study aims to measure sedimentation status change with the changes in internal pressure for dry chemical extinguishers of various use periods and analyze the suitability of the fire extinguishers' performance criteria. When the internal pressure of the fire extinguisher is 0%, 2 out of 10 new dry chemical powders for the 5 elapsed years were noted to be suitable, including 3 recycled dry chemical powders with 5 elapsed years that were found eligible. One out of 10 new dry chemical powders for 10 elapsed years was shown as suitable. Also, one new dry chemical powder for 13 elapsed years was suitable. When the internal pressure of the fire extinguisher was 50%, all 10 out of 10 new dry chemical powders for 5 years, recycled one with 5 elapsed years, and a new one with 10 elapsed years were found to be suitable, while 9 new dry chemical powders for 13 years were shown as suitable. When the internal pressure of the fire extinguisher was normal, new ones with 5 elapsed years, recycled ones with 5 elapsed years, new ones with 10 elapsed years, and new ones with 13 elapsed years were all 10 out of 10 samples noted as suitable. In summarizing the experiment results, it was found that the sedimentation status, one of the fire extinguisher's physical properties experiments, affects the fire extinguisher's performance criteria rather than the change with use periods.

• Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.87-93
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• 2009

목재의 탄화과정에서 일어나는 화학적 변화를 알아보기 위하여 목탄의 기초물성과 화학결합양식의 변화를 조사하였다. 탄화온도 증가에 따른 pH 변화에 있어서는, $300^{\circ}C$와 같이 낮은 온도에서 탄화한 탄화물의 pH는 약산성 또는 중성에 가까우나, $600^{\circ}C$ 이상에서 탄화한 고온탄화물의 pH는 알칼리성을 띠는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 탄화온도가 증가하여 탄화정도가 더욱 진행되면, 탄재 내의 탄소함량이 증가하고, 수소와 산소함량이 감소하였으며, 이러한 경향은 $600^{\circ}C$까지의 탄화에서 현저하게 나타났으나, $600^{\circ}C$ 이상의 탄화온도에서는 그 변화가 완만하였다. 탄화온도가 높아짐에 다라 C-C 결합 비율이 증가하고, C-O-H 또는 C-O-R 결합 비율이 감소하는 경향이 뚜렷이 나타났다. 이는 C-O-H 등 산소를 포함한 결합이 분해되어 C-C결합 비율이 높아지고, 이는 새로운 관능기의 생성과도 관련되는 것으로 추정된다. 또한 탄화 온도의 상승에 따라 C=O결합 등의 비율이 다소 증가 또는 감소하는 것으로 보아, 일부는 분해, 생성, 재결합 등의 과정을 거치는 것으로 판단된다. 목탄의 이와 같은 화학적 변화에 대한 인식은 세공 특성 등 물리적인 파라메타만으로 흡착성을 이해하려고 할 때 발생하는 한계를 극복할 수 있는 사고가 되며, 또한 목탄의 성능개선과 신용도 개발의 기초가 될 것으로 생각된다.

• Applied Biological Chemistry
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.127-133
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• 1996

재래식 찹쌀고추장 및 보리고추장의 산업화를 유도하기 위하여 우리나라의 주요 고추장인 찹쌀고추장과 보리고추장을 순창 및 괴산에서 각각 제조하였다. 180일동안 숙성시키면서 숙성 중의 이화학적 성분조사와 아울러 관능검사 등의 고추장의 품질 특성을 규명하여 재래식 고추장의 적정 숙성기간을 설정하고자 하였다. 숙성 180일동안 찹쌀고추장과 보리고추장의 이화학적 성분 변화는 비슷한 경향을 나타내고 있었으나 관능적 품위에서는 찹쌀고추장이 보리고추장보다 색, 향, 맛, 전체적인 기호도에서 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 찹쌀고추장 및 보리고추장의 이화학적 성분과 관능검사를 실시한 결과를 고려하였을 때 두 고추장의 적정 숙성기간은 150일로 나타났다.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.7-14
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• 1979

Poly(trans-5-methylproline) (PTMP)의 변광회전에 따른 CD, ORD 및 uv 스펙트럼의 변화를 관찰하였다. PTMP의 정방향 변광회전은 유기강산이나 trifluoroethanol (TFE) 속에서 일어나며 역방향 변광회전은 TFE용액을 과량의 지방족 알코올로서 회전시킬때 일어났다. 정방향과 역방향 변광회전시의 CD, ORD, 및 uv 스펙트럼의 변화는 polyproline 변광회전시의 변화와 평형하게 일어났다. PTMP의 정방향 변광회전시 ${\alpha}CH-$양성자의 화학적이동은 0.3 ppm downfield로 이동하였고 환원 점도는 0.15에서 0.26(dl/g)로 증가하였다 적당한 용매의 혼합물에서는 형태 I 과 II는 평형을 이루었다. 이러한 모든 용액성질의 변화는 polyproline의 변화와 유사하기 때문에 I, II의 두 형태는 polyproline 형태 I, II와 같을 것이며 형태 I은 모두 시스아미드 결합을 가진 helix이고, 형태 II는 모두 트란스 아미드 결합을 가진 helix일 것이다.