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Photoacid Catalyzed Reaction of Phenol with Styrene

  • Kim, Vicna;Shin, Eun Ju;Chung, Minchul;Ahn, Hogeun;Kwak, Wonbong
    • Rapid Communication in Photoscience
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.13-15
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    • 2016
  • The reaction of styrene with phenol using photoacid catalyst has been investigated. Upon irradiation with 450 nm light, protonated merocyanine photoacid converts into spiropyran form with releasing proton. The reaction of styrene with phenol has been conducted under irradiation with 450 nm light using merocyanine photoacid catalyst at room temperature in comparison with the results using some selected catalysts including $H_2SO_4$ or $FeCl_3$ at the reaction temperature of $120^{\circ}C$.

COMS BIPROPELLANT PROPULSION SYSTEM (COMS 특별세션)

  • Han, Cho-Young;Park, Eung-Sik;Baek, Myung-Jin;Lee, Ho-Hyung
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2007.10a
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    • pp.41-44
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    • 2007
  • Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) has jointly developed a bipropellant propulsion system for Communication, Ocean and Meteorological Satellite (COMS) with EADS Astrium in UK. The technology relevant to a bipropellant propulsion system is quite new one in Korea, which is transferred for the first time, with development of COMS propulsion system. It hasn't ever attempted before, and hasn't got any general idea itself as well, in Korea. The COMS Chemical Propulsion System (CPS) is designed to perform both the orbital injection function, to take the spacecraft from transfer orbit to Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO), and all on-station propulsive functions throughout the lifetime of the satellite. All station keeping manoeuvres are performed using the CPS. The design, manufacture and testing of COMS CPS are addressed in this paper. Feasibility of COMS CPS applicable to the other advanced mission is investigated as well.

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A Study on the Bullet Trajectory for the Anti-aircraft Gun (대공화기 탄도궤적에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Hwan-Il;Park, Kang;Shin, Dong-Il;Park, Woo-Seong;Joo, Gee-Don
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2012.06b
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    • pp.117-119
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    • 2012
  • 기존의 탄도방정식[2]에서 여러 조건을 제시하여 간략화된 대공화기 탄도방정식을 얻는다. 대공화기의 탄도궤적이므로 양력계수가 들어간 항의 값이 충분히 작다는 가정을 하였다. 또한 속도의 크기를 시간불변이라는 가정을 하였다. 이 탄도방정식은 기존의 방정식[1]에 비하여 밀도, 풍속, 항력계수 및 탄도계수가 식에 나타나 있어 일반적인 탄도방정식으로 이용가능하고 또한 미분방정식의 해를 구할 필요가 없다. 모의실험을 통하여 제시된 탄도방정식을 이용하여 풍속이 들어간 탄도궤적을 구한다.

Evolutionary Signature of Information Transfer Complexity in Cellular Membrane Proteomes

  • Kim, Jong-Min;Kim, Byung-Gee;Oh, S.-June
    • Genomics & Informatics
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.111-121
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    • 2009
  • Cell membrane proteins play crucial roles in the cell's molecular interaction with its environment and within itself. They consist of membrane-bound proteins and many types of transmembrane (TM) proteins such as receptors, transporters, channel proteins, and enzymes. Membrane proteomes of cellular organisms reveal some characteristics in their global topological distribution according to their evolutionary positions, and show their own information transfer complexity. Predicted transmembrane segments (TMSs) in membrane proteomes with HMMTOP showed near power-law distribution and frequency characteristics in 6-TMS and 7-TMS proteins in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, respectively. This reaffirms the important roles of membrane receptors in cellular communication and biological evolutionary history.

Synthesis and Characterization of Fluorinated Poly(phenylmaleimide-co-pentafluorophenylmaleimide) for Optical Waveguides

  • Choi, Jongwan;Oh, Jin-Woo;Kim, Nakjoong
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.1077-1080
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    • 2013
  • Fluorinated polymaleimides with high thermal stability and low optical absorption loss in the optical communication wavelength of $1.55{\mu}m$ were investigated for application in low-loss waveguide materials. The fluorinated polymaleimides were prepared from two monomers phenylmaleimide (H-PMI) and pentafluorophenylmaleimide (F-PMI). All synthesized copolymers had high thermal stability (decomposition temperature $(T_d)=380-430^{\circ}C$). The refractive index of the copolymers could be tuned from 1.4969 to 1.5950 in the TE mode and from 1.4993 to 1.5932 for the TM mode at 632.8 nm by copolymerizing different weight ratios of H-PMI and F-PMI. The refractive index of the copolymers decreased with increasing F-PMI content. In addition, when the amount of F-PMI was increased, optical loss and absorption loss at 632.8 nm and 1550 nm, respectively, decreased.

Molecular Modeling of the Chiral Recognition of Propranolol Enantiomers by a β-Cyclodextrin

  • Kim, Hyun-myung;Jeong, Karp-joo;Lee, Sang-san;Jung, Seun-ho
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.95-98
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    • 2003
  • Enantioselectivity of the propranolol on β-cyclodextrin was simulated by molecular modeling. Monte Carlo (MC) docking and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations were applied to investigate the molecular mechanism of enantioselective difference of both enantiomeric complexes. An energetic analysis of MC docking simulations coupled to the MD simulations successfully explains the experimental elution order of propranolol enantiomers. Molecular dynamics simulations indicate that average energy difference between the enantiomeric complexes, frequently used as a measure of chiral recognition, depends on the length of the simulation time. We found that, only in case of much longer MD simulations, noticeable chiral separation was observed.

A Case Study on Using Uncritical Inference Test to Promote Malaysian College Students' Deeper Thinking in Organic Chemistry

  • Kan, Su-Yin;Cha, Jeongho;Chia, Poh Wai
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.59 no.2
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    • pp.156-163
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    • 2015
  • In Malaysia, the students' poor performance in mathematics and sciences needs immediate attention and remedies. In order to tackle this problem, an active learning environment that encourages students' question-asking capability must be molded. Transformation from traditional teacher-based approach to active-learning classroom is the key to develop question-asking capability. The classroom activity that the authors used in this study is based on the uncritical inference test to promote students' deeper thinking which encouraged students to verify facts that was previously learnt in classroom through group discussion activity. Three sets of uncritical inference test were developed and applied to Malaysian college course of basic organic chemistry. Students' answers to the impact of using uncritical inference test with a group discussion on learning and communication skills were positive.

Pharmacognostical Evaluation of the Bark of Careya arborea (Roxb.)

  • Bharathi, R Vijaya;Rajendran, K.;Saeed, Mustafa Mohamed Ali;Kaur, Rubina;Lakshmi, SN Soundarya;Vasanthi, RK
    • Natural Product Sciences
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.221-226
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    • 2008
  • The bark of Careya arborea Roxb. (Barringtoniacae) is used against various disorders in Indian systems of medicine, namely astringent, anthelmintic, in tumors, dyspepsia, colic, bronchitis, urinary discharges, piles, lecucoderma, skin diseases, epileptic fits, diarrhoea. The juice of the fresh bark with honey is given as a demulcent in coughs and colds, infusion of the fresh bark is used to treat snake bite by applying to the bitten part and also taken internally. The present communication deals with the detailed pharmacognostical evaluation of the bark sample using light and confocal microscopy, WHO recommended physico-chemical determinations and authentic phytochemical procedures. The physico-chemical, morphological and histological parameters presented in this paper may be proposed as parameters to establish the authenticity of C. arborea bark and may possibly help to differentiate the drug from its other allied species.

Graphene and Carbon Quantum Dots-based Biosensors for Use with Biomaterials

  • Lee, Cheolho;Hong, Sungyeap
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.49-59
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    • 2019
  • Biosensors, which are analysis devices used to convert biological reactions into electric signals, are made up of a receptor component and a signal transduction part. Graphene quantum dots (GQDs) and carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are new types of carbon nanoparticles that have drawn a significant amount of attention in nanoparticle research. The unique features exhibited by GQDs and CQDs are their excellent fluorescence, biocompatibility, and low cytotoxicity. As a result of these features, carbon nanomaterials have been extensively studied in bioengineering, including biosensing and bioimaging. It is extremely important to find biomaterials that participate in biological processes. Biomaterials have been studied in the development of fluorescence-based detection methods. This review provides an overview of recent advances and new trends in the area of biosensors based on GQDs and CQDs as biosensor platforms for the detection of biomaterials using fluorescence. The sensing methods are classified based on the types of biomaterials, including nucleic acids, vitamins, amino acids, and glucose.

EBCO - Efficient Boundary Detection and Tracking Continuous Objects in WSNs

  • Chauhdary, Sajjad Hussain;Lee, Jeongjoon;Shah, Sayed Chhattan;Park, Myong-Soon
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.6 no.11
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    • pp.2901-2919
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    • 2012
  • Recent research in MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) and wireless communication has enabled tracking of continuous objects, including fires, nuclear explosions and bio-chemical material diffusions. This paper proposes an energy-efficient scheme that detects and tracks different dynamic shapes of a continuous object (i.e., the inner and outer boundaries of a continuous object). EBCO (Efficient Boundary detection and tracking of Continuous Objects in WSNs) exploits the sensing capabilities of sensor nodes by automatically adjusting the sensing range to be either a boundary sensor node or not, instead of communicating to its neighboring sensor nodes because radio communication consumes more energy than adjusting the sensing range. The proposed scheme not only increases the tracking accuracy by choosing the bordering boundary sensor nodes on the phenomenon edge, but it also minimizes the power consumption by having little communication among sensor nodes. The simulation result shows that our proposed scheme minimizes the energy consumption and achieves more precise tracking results than existing approaches.