• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.395-401
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• 2005

A highly stable quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) that showed a stability of frequencies and exhibited a very low noise level has been developed. The long-term drift was <0.05 Hz/h over a period of 10 h, and the short-term rms (root mean square) noise was <0.015 Hz. Our QCM sensor was used as a humidity sensor employing a poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) polymer film as a hygroscopic layer, which showed good characteristics in the relative humidity (RH) range of $2{\sim}90%$ RH. Comparing the characteristics of the QCM sensor with those of other types of humidity sensors employing PMMA film as a hygroscopic layer, and with other QCM sensors employing other hygroscopic layers is represented.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2003.05c
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• pp.23-27
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• 2003

Molecular self-assembled of surfactant viologen are of recent interest because they can from functional electrodes as well as micellar assemblies, which can be profitably utilized for display devices, photoelectrochemical studies and electrocatalysis as electron acceptor or electron mediator. Fromherz et al studied the self-assembly of thiol and disulfide derivatives of viologens bearing long n-alkyl chains on Au electrode surface. The electrochemical behavior of self-assembled viologen monolayer has been investigated with QCM, which has been known as nano-gram order mass detector. The self-assembly process of viologen was monitored using resonant frequency$({\Delta}F)$ and resonant resistance(R). The redox process of viologen was observed with resonant frequency $({\Delta}F)$.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.546-549
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• 2000

Liposomes and proteoliposomes, artificial membranes, can interact with many solutes, such as drugs, peptides and proteins. Immobilization of (proteo)liposomes as supramolecular aggregates on gold surfaces have potential applications in nanotechnology and biosensors. We demonstrate a quartz crystal analyzer (QCA) method to monitor the construction of multi layers of unilamellar liposomes based on avidin-biotin binding on gold surface using quartz crystal microbalance(QCM). Thus, QCA provides an on line and efficient method to detect the protein membranes construction and have applications to biosensing system.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.701-702
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• 2000

The thiolated anti-Escherichia coli antibody prepared by thiolation with a thiolcleavable heterobifunctional cross-linker, sulfosuccinimidyl 6[3- (2-pyridyldithio) propionamido]hexanoate (sulfo-LC-SPDP) was chemisorped onto one gold electrode of the piezoelectric quartz crystal surface. In the QCM system employing a batch-type well holder, a steady-state frequency decrease was attained within 20 min when $100{\sim}200\;{\mu}L$ suspensions of Escherichia coli having viable cell counts of $10^5{\sim}10^6\;CFU/mL$ were added. The stability of sensor response was improved compared to the system with a batch-type dip holder.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.639-642
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• 2003

Olfactory receptor protein ODR10 was expressed in E.coli as fusion protein with GST and His6 Tag. Crude membrane extract of the expressed protein was coated on the surface of quartz crystal microbalance, and the interaction of the ODR10 with several odorants was examined. Although the expression level was very low, quartz crystal microbalance showed that the expressed protein interacted most strongly with diacetyl (butanedione), which is known to bind to the ODR10 protein selectively. The interaction between ODR10 and diacetyl was $5{\sim}10$ times stronger than the interaction between ODR10 and other odorants. Thus, E. coli cells expressing the olfactory receptor protein could be used as an olfactory biosensor. Also, such system could be used to test which olfactory receptor reacts specifically with which odorant molecules, since there has been no cheap and convenient way to test the interaction of olfactory receptors and odorant molecules yet.

• Polymer(Korea)
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.392-398
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• 2005

Self-assembled multilayer thin films of poly(ethylene-alt-maleic anhydride) (PEMAh) and poly(4-vinyl pyridine) (P4VP) were fabricated by layer-by-layer (LbL) sequential adsorption. Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopic analysis of the self-assembled PEMAh/P4VP multilayer films confirms that the driving forces for the multilayer buildup are the intermolecular hydrogen bonding and electrostatic interactions. The linear increase of absorption peak of P4VP at 256 nm with increasing number of PEMAh/P4VP bilayers indicates that the multilayer buildup is an uniform assembling process. We also investigate the effects of polyelectrolyte concenhation variation of the dipping solution and pH variation of the PEMAh solution on the multilayer film formation. Thickness. adsorbed polyelectrolyte mass and surface roughness of the multilayer films were measured by UV-visible spectroscopy, quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), and atomic force microscopy (AFM), respectively.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.434-435
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• 2008

An in-situ monitoring technique for deposition process of CdS buffer layer was developed in this work. A quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) was used to measure the frequency change during the CdS deposition process and the relation ship between frequency change and film thickness and optical transmittance was investigated. The film thickness shows a linear relationship with frequency change, demonstrating that frequency change measured by QCM can be used a in-situ monitoring tool for CdS deposition process.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.146-149
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• 2017

Si clusters generated during the plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process have a great influence on the quality of the fabricated films. In particular, in hydrogenated amorphous silicon thin films (a-Si:H) used for thin film solar cells, Si clusters are mainly responsible for light-induced degradation. In this study, we investigated the amount of clusters incorporated into thin films using a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) and specially designed cluster eliminating filters, and investigated the effect of the DC grid mesh in preventing cluster incorporation. Experimental results showed that as the applied voltage of the grid mesh, which is placed between the electrode and the QCM, decreased, the number of clusters incorporated into the film decreased. This is due to the electrostatic force from the grid mesh bias, and this method is expected to contribute to the fabrication of high-quality thin films by preventing Si cluster incorporation.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.55 no.3
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• pp.107-110
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• 2006

We fabricated the monolayers onto QCM by self-assembly using viologen, which has been widely used as electron acceptor. A gold electrode of the QCM was cleaned by piranha solution and prepared the ethanol-acetonitrile(1:1) solution with 2 m mol/l viololgen compounding of pure hi gas. We determined the time dependence to resonant frequency shift during self-assembly process and the electrochemical behavior of the self-assembled viologen monolayers by cyclic voltammetry. With increasing scan rate, the redox peak current of the viologen increased linearly. This was signified that the redox reaction was reversible. The EQCM measurements revealed the anions transfer during redox reactions, respectively. From the EQCM data, the well-defined shape peaks were nearly equal charges by cyclic voltammetry.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.496-500
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• 2003

Molecular self-assembled of surfactant viologen are of recent interest because they can from functional electrodes as well as micellar assemblies, which can be profitably utilized for display devices, photoelectrochemical studies and electrocatalysis as electron acceptor or electron mediator. Fromherz et al studied the self-assembly of thiol and disulfide derivatives of viologens bearing long n-alkyl chains on Au electrode surface[1]. The electrochemical behavior of self-assembled viologen monolayer has been investigated with QCM, which has been known as nano-gram order mass detector. The self-assembly process of viologen was monitored using resonant frequency(ΔF) and resonant resistance(R). The redox process of viologen was observed with resonant frequency(ΔF).