• Journal of Information Display
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.7-11
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• 2006

In this paper, we report the fabrication of high quality polymer walls by using a monomer containing fluorine (F-monomer). Polymer walls with no phase retardation were fabricated by using photo-polymerization induced anisotropic phase separation of the mixture composed of liquid crystal (LC) and F-monomer. Thanks to the immiscibility of fluoride, we could form high quality polymer walls with no light leakage. We measured electro-optic characteristics of a twisted-nematic (TN) LC cell whose polymer walls were fabricated by using the F-monomer, and the measurements were compared with that fabricated by using the monomer without fluorine.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.753-761
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• 2014

We propose a two-step UV irradiation procedure to fabricate polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films by lamination. During the first UV treatment, before lamination, the UV-curable monomers coated on one film substrate are solidified through photo-polymerization as the phase separation between the liquid crystals and the monomers. Introducing an adhesion-enhancement layer on the other plastic substrate and controlling the UV irradiation conditions ensure that UV-induced cross-linkable functional groups remain on the surfaces of the photo-polymerized layers. Thereby, the adhesion stability between the top and bottom films is much improved during a second (post-lamination) UV treatment by further UV-induced cross-linking at the interface. Because the adhesion-enhancement and PDLC layers prepared by the bar-coating process are solidified before lamination, the PDLC droplet distribution and the cell gap between the two plastic substrates remain uniform under the lamination pressure. This ensures that the voltage-controlled light transmittance is uniform across the entire sample.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2003년도 International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.273-276
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• 2003

Polymerization induced diffusion has been successfully applied to create new display components. Based on this principle a new technique to produce polymer covered liquid crystal layers on a single substrate, called photo-enforced stratification, allows cost-effective production of ultra-thin LCDs. The two-step photopolymerization-induced phase separation of a liquid crystal and a polymer precursor can be performed on a variety of substrates and provides freedom in display design.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2009년도 9th International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.931-934
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• 2009

EHA(ethylhexyl acrylate), well known for the prepolymer used for PDLC, was used for the LC/polymer composite system for pixel isolated LC (PILC). In order to improve the polymer wall structures of EHA, various acrylate prepolymers were blended with EHA prepolymer.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.103-120
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• 2010

Surface modification of microfiltration and ultrafiltration membranes has been widely used to improve the protein adsorption resistance and permeation properties of hydrophobic membranes. Several surface modification methods for converting conventional membranes into low-protein-binding membranes are reviewed. They are categorized as either physical modification or chemical modification of the membrane surface. Physical modification of the membrane surface can be achieved by coating it with hydrophilic polymers, hydrophilic-hydrophobic copolymers, surfactants or proteins. Another method of physical modification is plasma treatment with gases. A hydrophilic membrane surface can be also generated during phase-inverted micro-separation during membrane formation, by blending hydrophilic or hydrophilic-hydrophobic polymers with a hydrophobic base membrane polymer. The most widely used method of chemical modification is surface grafting of a hydrophilic polymer by UV polymerization because it is the easiest method; the membranes are dipped into monomers with and without photo-initiators, then irradiated with UV. Plasma-induced polymerization of hydrophilic monomers on the surface is another popular method, and surface chemical reactions have also been developed by several researchers. Several important examples of physical and chemical modifications of membrane surfaces for low-protein-binding are summarized in this article.

• 멤브레인
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.219-227
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• 2021

분자각인막(MIM)은 특정 분자의 결합자리를 갖고 있는 다공성 고분자 막이다. 비용매유도 상분리(NIPS)법을 사용하여 분자각인막의 지지체로 사용될 P(AN-co-MA) 비대칭막을 제조하고, 여기에 표면 각인법을 적용하여 광활성 이니퍼터 도입과 photo-grafting을 통해 라이소자임 분자각인막을 제조하였다. P(AN-co-MA) 비대칭막을 3-chloropropyltrimethoxysilane과 광활성 이니퍼터 dithiocarbamate로 개질하고, acrylamide 단량체, N,N'-methylenebisacrylamide 가교제, 라이소자임 주형분자 혼합액을 UV 조사 환경에서 혼성중합 시켜 MIM을 제조하였다. 제조된 MIM의 FT-IR과 FE-SEM 및 EDS 분석을 실시한 결과 P(AN-co-MA) 막은 비대칭 단면 구조이었고 표면에 이니퍼터 그룹이 잘 결합되어 있어 MIM이 성공적으로 제조되었다. 제조공정의 변수 조절을 통해 라이소자임의 흡착량이 비각인막(NIM)에 비해 13배 큰 값인 2.7 mg/g을 갖는 P(AN-co-MA) 기반 MIM이 제조되었으며, 막여과 실험을 통해 라이소자임에 대한 오발부민의 투과선택도를 측정한 결과 MIM은 라이소자임의 선택적 결합력이 우수하였다.