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Advancement of Clay and Clay-based Materials in the Remediation of Aquatic Environments Contaminated with Heavy Metal Toxic Ions and Micro-pollutants

  • Lalhmunsiama, Lalhmunsiama;Malsawmdawngzela, Ralte;Vanlalhmingmawia, Chhakchhuak;Tiwari, Diwakar;Yoon, Yiyong
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.33 no.5
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    • pp.502-522
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    • 2022
  • Clay minerals are natural materials that show widespread applications in various branches of science, including environmental sciences, in particular the remediation of water contaminated with various water pollutants. Modified clays and minerals have attracted the attention of researchers in the recent past since the modified materials are seemingly more useful and efficient for removing emerging water contaminants. Therefore, modified engineered materials having multi-functionalities have received greater interest from researchers. The advanced clay-based materials are highly effective in the remediation of water contaminated with organic and inorganic contaminants, and these materials show enhanced selectivity towards the specific pollutants. The review inherently discusses various methods employed in the modification of clays and addresses the challenges in synthesizing the advanced engineered materials precursor to natural clay minerals. The changes in physical and chemical properties, as investigated by various characterization techniques before and after the modifications, are broadly explained. Further, the implications of these materials for the decontamination of waterbodies as contaminated with potential water pollutants are extensively discussed. Additionally, the insights involved in the removal of organic and inorganic pollutants are discussed in the review. Furthermore, the future perspectives and specific challenges in the scaling up of the treatment methods in technology development are included in this communication.

Current status of natural product industry and its commercial application to health functional foods

  • Park, Jong Dae
    • Proceedings of the Plant Resources Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2018.10a
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    • pp.21-21
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    • 2018
  • Natural product substances have historically served as the most significant also be prepared by source of new leads for pharmaceutical development. They can chemical synthesis(both semisynthesis and total synthesis) and have played a important role in the field of organic chemistry by providing synthetic targets. Rcently, they have also been extended for commercial purpose to refer to medicinal products, health functional foods, dietary supplements and cosmetics from natural sources. A large number of currently prescribed drugs have been either directly derived from or inspired by natural products. However, with the advent of robotics, bioinformatics, high throughput screening(HTS), molecular biology-biotechnology, combinatorial chemistry, in silico(molecular modeling) and other methodologies, the pharmaceutical industry has largely moved away from plant derived natural products as a source for leads and prospective drug candidates. The strategy for natural prduct industry is now changing from drug approaches to health foods by identifying effective natural products as preparations. In Korea, a lot of development of natural product based drugs have been done, but very few on health functional foods. The concept of natural product based health foods is not active components as lead compounds but standardized extracts or preparation mixed with other medicinal plants. The representative material has been recently known to be a standardized ginseng extract "Ginsana G 115" developed by Swiss Pharmaton company. The purpose of this presentation is to underline how natural products research continues to make significant contributions in the domain of discovery and development of new health functional foods. It is proposed to present the development of high value added health food or health functional foods through scientific investigation on efficacy and standardization of new materials form natural products.

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Identification of natural colored diamonds using UV fluorescent and X-ray Lang images (UV 형광과 X-선 Lang 표면이미지를 이용한 천연유색다이아몬드의 감별 연구)

  • Kim, Jun-Hwan;Ha, Jun-Seok;Kim, Ki-Hoon;Song, Oh-Sung
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.10 no.12
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    • pp.3540-3545
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    • 2009
  • Due to recent development of high temperature high pressure(HTHP) diamond synthetic and treatment technology, we need to identify the natural diamonds fast, reliable, and economically. We proposed using new method of UV fluorescence and X-ray Lang topography imaging for distinguishing one synthetic diamond from four natural colored diamonds. We observe unique local stress field uneven image in synthetic diamond using UV fluorescence and Lang topography characterization, while uniform images in natural diamonds. Especially, X-ray Lang method offered the better identification power with better high resolution on stress field images.

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EFFECTS OF THE BIOCERAMICS ON HEALING PROCESSES OF THE ALVEOLAR BONE DEFECTS IN DOGS (수종의 합성골이식재가 성견 치조골 결손의 치유에 미치는 영향에 관한 비교연구)

  • Park, Yang-Jae;Kwon, Young-Hyuk
    • Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.422-441
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    • 1993
  • The purpose of this study was to compare effects of the bioceramics on healing processes of the alveolar bone defects in dogs. Five adult dogs aged 1 to 2 years were used in this study. Experimental alveolar bone defects were created surgically with a #1/2 round bur at the furcation area of the buccal surface of the mandibular 3rd, 4th premolars and 1st molar. Fifteen experimental alveolar bone defects were devided into three groups according to the type of graft materials. The groups were as follows : 1) flap operation with dense hydroxyapatite( DHA group ) 2) flap operation with porous hydroxyapatite( PHA group ) 3) flap operation with natural coral ( NC group ) At 1, 2, 4, 6, and 12 weeks, dogs were serially sacrificed and specimens were prepared with Hematoxylin-Eosin stain and Mallory stain for light microscopic evaluation. The results of this study were as follows : 1. In every group, inflammatory cell infiltrations were seen at 1st weeks due to surgical trauma, however inflammatory response owing to graft materials were not seen. 2. In every group, the appearance of connective tissue around graft materials was loosely formed at the initial stages, however the connective tissue was densely formed at 2 weeks. 3. The presence of osteocytes were observed at 2 weeks in the natural coral group, however the osteocytes were appeared at 6weeks in the dense hydroxyapatite group. 4. A new bone was formed from the base and walls of the defect and gradually expanded toward the graft materials. 5. A resorption of the natural coral occurred irregularly at the periphery of the material, therefore the size and shape of the natural coral were reduced at 6 weeks. 6. At 12 weeks, the porous hydroxyapatite and natural coral were surrounded by newly formed bone most completely, however dense hydroxyapatite was surrounded by newly formed bone in part.

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Green Blends and Composites from Renewable Resources

  • Yu, L.;Petinakis, S.;Dean, K.;Bilyk, A.;Wu, D.
    • Proceedings of the Polymer Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.216-216
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    • 2006
  • A special group of polymers, those from renewable resources, has attracted an increasing amount of attention over the last two decades, due to two major reasons: environmental concerns and the limitations of our finite petroleum resources. Generally, polymers from renewable resources (PFRR) can be classified into three groups: (1) natural polymers, such as starch, protein and cellulose; (2) synthetic polymers from natural monomers, such as polylactic acid (PLA); and (3) polymers from microbial fermentation, such as polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB). Like many other petroleum based polymers, various properties of PFRR are also vastly improved through blending and composites formation.

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The Fundamental study on Development of high performance Floor materials using the Zeolite and Stone dust (제올라이트와 석분을 이용한 고성능 바닥재의 개발에 관한 기초적 연구)

  • 류희정;임병호;최영준;이승조;김태곤;박정민;김화중
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.785-790
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    • 1997
  • In domestic, it is not a little results to use natural mineral, stone and sludge as a construction materials. Accordingly, it is required to study for higher application from of resources these materials in its economic and environmental aspects. So, the purpose of this study is to develop the excellent construction materials, a as compare with existing floor materials in material capacity and economic aspects, using natural zeolite, stone dust and sludge. In this viewpoint, this paper investigated to the required capacity such as, compressive strength, bending strength and absorption according to experiment.

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Influence of natural and accelerated weathering of polycarbonate (폴리카보네이트 소재의 자연폭로와 실내촉진 내후성 영향)

  • Moon, Jung-mi;Jang, Ho-Jin;Kim, Chang-Hwan
    • Journal of Surface Science and Engineering
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    • v.55 no.6
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    • pp.383-389
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    • 2022
  • Natural(outdoor) and accelerated(artificial) weathering tests were performed to investigate their influence on polycarbonate. The polycarbonate materials were prepared of various formulations divided into three batches, with existing, development materials1, development materials2, containing mixture of UV additives. Weathering tests were carried out as outdoor weathering(Seosan, South Korea) and accelerated weathering(xenon-arc), and the results analysis were evaluated based on yellow-index(YI), scanning electron microscope(SEM/EDS), energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy(XRD), and gel permeation chromatography(GPC). Among the three materials, processing method development materials1 with UV stabilizer was excellent in weathering. This study can provide basic data for standardization of development and performance evaluation on livestock barn roof.