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Low Spin-Casting Solution Temperatures Enhance the Molecular Ordering in Polythiophene Films

  • Lee, Wi Hyoung;Lee, Hwa Sung;Park, Yeong Don
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.1491-1494
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    • 2014
  • High-crystallinity poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) thin films were prepared by aging the precursor solutions, prepared using a good solvent, chloroform, at low temperatures prior to spin-casting. Lower solution temperatures significantly improved the molecular ordering in the spin-cast P3HT films and, therefore, the electrical properties of field-effect transistors prepared using these films. Solution cooling enhanced the electrical properties by shifting the P3HT configuration equilibrium away from random coils and toward more ordered aggregates. At room temperature, the P3HT molecules were completely solvated in chloroform and adopted a random coil conformation. Upon cooling, however, the chloroform poorly solvated the P3HT molecules, favoring the formation of ordered P3HT aggregates, which then yielded more highly crystalline molecular ordering in the P3HT thin films produced from the solution.

Synthesis of Polyacrylonitrile as Precursor for High-Performance Ultrafine Fibrids

  • Kim, Subong;Kuk, Yun-Su;Jin, Fan-Long;Park, Soo-Jin
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.407-414
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    • 2014
  • Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) copolymers with different methyl acrylate (MA) contents were synthesized via solution polymerization and used as precursors for high-performance PAN ultrafine fibrids. The chemical structures of the copolymers were characterized using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and $^{13}C$ nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Their particle sizes and aspect ratios increased with increasing viscosity, and the degree of crystallinity increased with decreasing concentration of copolymer solution. In contrast, their peak temperature and heat of exotherm increased with decreasing concentration of the copolymer solution. The aromatization indices (AIs) of the fibrids increased with increasing heat-treatment time; however, the AIs decreased when the heat-treatment temperature was higher than the onset temperature of the copolymers. On the other hand, the crystal sizes of the fibrids decreased with increasing concentration of the copolymer solution when the MA content was held constant.

Comparative study on structural and luminescence properties of solution processed ZnO thin films

  • Park, Byung-Yoon;Choi, Sung-Ho;Hong, Chang-Seop;Ryu, Beyong-Hwan;Jung, Ha-Kyun
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.1433-1436
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    • 2009
  • Film morphology, crystallinity, and luminescence property of solution processed ZnO films have been studied. Fluorine addition and annealing ambient significantly change the defect-related emission band as well as the structural property. Using the overall emission behaviors, we can predict an optimized process condition for solution-based ZnO thin film.

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Evaluation of Water Softening with the Removal of Calcium Ion by Ion Flotation Approach

  • Mafi, Azadeh;Khayati, Gholam
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.59 no.2
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    • pp.219-224
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    • 2021
  • Ion flotation is an efficient method to remove metal ions from aqueous solution. In this work, ion flotation was applied to calcium removal from aqueous solution. The parameters used included sodium stearate (SS) and sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) as collectors, 1-butanol and 1-propanol as frothers, pH, and air-flow rate. An L16 orthogonal array was chosen according to the mentioned factors and levels, and experimental tests were conducted according to the Taguchi orthogonal array. The results showed that all of the factors except one had significant effect on the flotation performance. The percentage contribution of parameters showed that type of frother and type of collector made the greatest (43.14%) and the lowest (9.86%) contribution, respectively. In optimal conditions, the recovery of Ca (II) ion was 45.67%. Also, the results illustrated that the Taguchi method could predict calcium removal from aqueous solution by ion flotation with 2.63%. This study showed that the use of ion flotation was an effective method for Ca (II) ion removal from aqueous solution.

A Study on Indium Gallium Oxide Thin Film Transistors prepared by a Solution-based Deposition Method (저온 용액공정을 이용한 인듐갈륨 산화물(IGO) 박막트랜지스터 제조 및 특성 연구)

  • Bae, Eunjin;Lee, Jin Young;Han, Seung-Yeol;Chang, Chih-Hung;Ryu, Si Ok
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.49 no.5
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    • pp.600-604
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    • 2011
  • Solution processed IGO thin films were prepared using a general chemical solution route by spin coating. The effect of the annealing temperature of IGO thin films based on the ratio of 2:1 of indium to gallium on crystallization was investigated with varying annealing temperature from $300^{\circ}C$ to $600^{\circ}C$. The electronic device characteristic of IGO thin film was investigated. The solution-processed IGO TFTs annealed at 300 and $600^{\circ}C$ in air for 1 h exhibited good electronic performances with field effect mobilities as high as 0.34 and 3.83 $cm^2/V{\cdot}s$, respectively. The on/off ratio of the IGO TFT in this work was $10^5$ with 98% transmittance.

Surface Plasmon Resonances of Metal Colloidal Particles Synthesized by a Photo-Chemical Process (광화학적 방법을 이용한 금속입자의 합성과 광학적 특성 연구)

  • Ko, Min-Jin;Plawsky, Joel
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.43 no.1
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 1999
  • Metal colloidal particles have been prepared by a photo-chemical process in an aqueous solution containing semiconductor nanocrystallites. Metal colloidal particles produced in CdS and AgBr exhibit different absorption spectra. Au particles produced in solution with CdS show typical Au plasmon resonance absorption spectra. On the other hand Ag particles in solution with AgBr shows surface plasmon resonance absorption spectra which are red-shifted, as compared to that of a dispersion of homogeneous Ag colloidal particles in the same host. The extent of red-shift depends on the UV illumination time. This phenomenon is interpreted within the context of effective medium theory for small volume fractions. From the theory, a metal coated particle predicts Ag plasmon resonance, red shifted with respect to 400 nm that would be associated with a silver particle in solution. The absorption peak position is very sensitive to the coating thickness.

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