• Toxicological Research
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.241-247
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• 2013

This study was carried out to examine the action mechanism of Chamaecyparis obtusa oil (CO) on hair growth in C57BL/6 mice. For alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and ${\gamma}$-glutamyl transpeptidase (${\gamma}$-GT) activities in the skin tissue, at week 4, the 3% minoxidil (MXD) and 3% CO treatment groups showed an ALP activity that was significantly higher by 85% (p < 0.001) and 48% (p < 0.05) and an ${\gamma}$-GT activity that was significantly higher by 294% (p < 0.01) and 254% (p < 0.05) respectively, as compared to the saline (SA) treatment group. For insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) mRNA expression in the skin tissue, at week 4, the MXD and CO groups showed a significantly higher expression by 204% (p < 0.05) and 426% (p < 0.01) respectively, as compared to the SA group. At week 4, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression in the MXD and CO groups showed a significantly higher expression by 74% and 96% (p < 0.05) respectively, however, epidermal growth factor (EGF) expression in the MXD and CO groups showed a significantly lower expression by 66% and 61% (p < 0.05) respectively, as compared to the SA group. Stem cell factor (SCF) expression in the MXD and CO groups was observed by immunohis-tochemistry as significant in a part of the bulge around the hair follicle and in a part of the basal layer of the epidermis. Taking all the results together, on the basis of effects on ALP and ${\gamma}$-GT activity, and the expression of IGF-1, VEGF and SCF, which are related to the promotion of hair growth, it can be concluded that CO induced a proliferation and division of hair follicle cells and maintained the anagen phase. Because EGF expression was decreased significantly, CO could delay the transition to the catagen phase.

• 대한금속재료학회지
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• 제50권10호
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• pp.775-783
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• 2012

The effect of thermal annealing on the in-situ growth characteristics of intermetallics (IMCs) and the mechanical strength of Cu pillar/Sn-3.5Ag microbumps are systematically investigated. The $Cu_6Sn_5$ phase formed at the Cu/solder interface right after bonding and grew with increased annealing time, while the $Cu_3Sn$ phase formed at the $Cu/Cu_6Sn_5$ interface and grew with increased annealing time. IMC growth followed a linear relationship with the square root of the annealing time due to a diffusion-controlled mechanism. The shear strength measured by the die shear test monotonically increased with annealing time. It then changed the slope with further annealing, which correlated with the change in fracture modes from ductile to brittle at a critical transition time. This is ascribed not only to the increasing thickness of brittle IMCs but also to the decreasing thickness of the solder, as there exists a critical annealing time for a fracture mode transition in our thin solder-capped Cu pillar microbump structures.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.35-41
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• 2012

Presently, the most promising family of lead-free piezoelectric ceramics is based on $K_{0.5}Na_{0.5}NbO_3$(KNN). Lithium, silver and antimony co-doped KNN ceramics show high piezoelectric properties at room temperature, but often suffer from abnormal grain growth. In the present work, the $(Ba_{0.85}Ca_{0.15})(Ti_{0.88}Zr_{0.12})O_3$ component, which has relaxor ferroelectric characteristics, was doped to suppress the abnormal grain growth. To investigate this effect, Lead-Free $0.95(K_{0.5}Na_{0.5})_{0.95}Li_{0.05}NbO_3-(0.05-x)AgSbO_3-x(Ba_{0.85}Ca_{0.15})(Ti_{0.88}Zr_{0.12})O_3$[KNLN-AS-xBCTZ] piezoelectric ceramics were synthesized by ball mill and nanosized-milling processes in lead-Free $0.95(K_{0.5}Na_{0.5})_{0.95}Li_{0.05}NbO_3-(0.05-x)AgSbO_3$ in order to suppress the abnormal grain growth. The nanosized milling process of calcined powders enhanced the sintering density. The phase structure, microstructure, and ferroelectric and piezoelectric properties of the KNLN-AS ceramics were systematically investigated. XRD patterns for the doped and undoped samples showed perovskite phase while tetragonality was increased with increasing BCZT content, which increase was closely related to the decrease of TO-T. Dense and uniform microstructures were observed for all of the doped BCZT ceramics. After the addition of BCTZ, the tetragonal-cubic and orthorhombic-tetragonal phase transitions shifted to lower temperatures compared to those for the pure KNNL-AS. A coexistence of the orthorhombic and tetragonal phases was hence formed in the ceramics with x = 0.02 mol at room temperature, leading to a significant enhancement of the piezoelectric properties. For the composition with x = 0.02 mol, the piezoelectric properties showed optimum values of: $d_{33}$ = 185 pC/N, $k_P$ = 41%, $T_C=325^{\circ}C$, $T_{O-T}=-4^{\circ}C$.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제19권
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• pp.75-79
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• 1999

Rotary bending fatigue tests were performed to investigate the effects of 2-phase matrix structure on fatigue limit with prepared specimens in high strength ductile irons. Two types of the specimens with different microstructures have been used. Series A has sorbite and series B has bainite. Fatigue limits of both specimens are improved comparing with as cast specimen. The fatigue limit is higher in series B than in series A. The reason why the fatigue limit of series A shows inferiority to that of series B is due to the transition of micro fatigue cracks to mesocrack occurs very rapidly, so increased stress intensity factor drives the fatigue crack growth. The higher fatigue limit of series B which has bainite is caused by the ${\gamma}$ layer contained in microstructure impede the rapid growth of micro fatigue crack to mesocrack and ${\alpha}$ layer around graphite has the higher capacity for the absorption of plastic deformation energy than sorbite.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제30권10호
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• pp.803-810
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• 1993

PbxZr0.4Ti0.6O3 thin films were prepared by reactive co-sputtering and annealed by RTA(Rapid Thermal Annealing) process. Effect of Pb content in PbxZr0.4Ti0.6O3 films on the phase transformation was intensively studied. It has been found out that depending on the Pb content as well as RTA temperature, crystal structure of PbxZr0.4Ti0.6O3 films change greatly. It turned out that transformation temperature for perovskite can be lowered and the width of transition temperature region was reduced by increasing Pb content in the film. And the lattice was expanded with increasing Pb content. With increasing RTA temperature, as-deposited phase was transformed into perovskite through three different transformation paths depending on Pb content. It was confirmed that activation energies for nucleation of perovskite structure are much larger than those of its growth.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제29권5호
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• pp.335-340
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• 1992

Undoped PbTiO3 ceramics was successfully prepared by using sol-gel process, which had not been fabricated due to its microcracks created by anisotropic stress during phase transition from cubic to tetragonal phase. Fabrication of undoped PbTiO3 ceramics via sol-gel processing was very much affected by the PbO content of the samples as well as PbO vapor from sintering atmosphere. Excess PbO was found to promote rapid grain growth in PbTiO3 ceramics. After sintering at 1100$^{\circ}C$ average grain size of PbTiO3 ceramics with excess PbO was about 8 times greater than that of stoichiometric composition, which may be due to PbO liquid phase from excess PbO.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.211-217
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• 2014

The self-assembled strain-induced sub-micrometric islands and nanostructures are grown from In-As-Sb-P quaternary liquid phase on InAs (100) substrates in Stranski-Krastanow growth mode. Two samples are under consideration. The first sample consists of unencapsulated islands and lens-shape quantum dots (QDs) grown from expressly inhomogeneous liquid phase. The second sample is an n-InAs/p-InAsSbP heterostructure with QDs embedded in the p-n junction interface. The morphology, size and shape of the structures are investigated by high-resolution scanning electron (SEM) and transmission electron (TEM) microscopy. It is shown that islands, as they decrease in size, undergo shape transitions. Particularly, as the volume decreases, the following succession of shape transitions are detected: sub-micrometric truncated pyramid, {111} facetted pyramid, {111} and partially {105} facetted pyramid, completely unfacetted "pre-pyramid", hemisphere, lens-shaped QD, which then evolves again to nano-pyramid. A critical size of $5{\pm}2nm$ for the shape transformation of InAsSbP-based lens-shaped QD to nano-pyramid is experimentally measured and theoretically evaluated.

• 한국자기학회지
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.144-148
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• 2015

스피넬 결정구조를 지니는 $CoMn_2O_4$ 박막을 증착하였으며 이들 박막의 물리적 특성을 후열처리 이전과 이후로 비교 조사하였다. 증착온도인 $720^{\circ}C$보다 낮은 $700^{\circ}C$에서의 후열처리 과정 이후, 열처리 이전의 불분명했던 tetragonal 결정구조가 분명하여졌으며 이는 곧 표면상태의 변화로도 관측되었다. 자성특성의 경우 약 100 K에서 다결정 형태의 벌크에서는 측정할 수 없었던 상전이가 관측되었다. 상전이온도 이상의 온도에서는 전형적인 강자성 특성을 보이는 반면 상전이온도 이하에서는 페리자성 특성을 보였다. 특히 열처리 이후에는 페리자성 특성은 매우 뚜렷하여졌다. 이와 같은 결과는 후열처리과정이 $CoMn_2O_4$ 박막의 물리적 특성을 결정짓는데 필수적임을 의미한다.

• 한국결정성장학회지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.181-186
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• 2011

$WO_3$ 첨가가 $TiO_2$계 SCR 촉매의 고온안정성에 미치는 영향을 구조적, 형상학적 분석을 통해 규명하였다. 순수한 $TiO_2$시편과 10 wt%의 $WO_3$를 첨가한 $WO_3-TiO_2$ 시편을 제조하여 $800^{\circ}C$에서 5시간 동안 열적 스트레스를 인가하였다. FT-IR을 이용하여 촉매의 산점 변화를 확언한 결과 $WO_3-TiO_2$ 시편의 경우가 순수한 $TiO_2$ 시편에 비해 열적 열화로 인한 산점의 감소가 상대적으로 적었다. 반면 $WO_3-TiO_2$ 와 $TiO_2$의 anatase에 서 rutile로의 상전이 정도는 각각 28.4%와 22.9%로 오히려 $WO_3-TiO_2$ 시편에서 rutile 상이 더 많이 증가한 것을 확인하였다. 형상학적 분석 결과 $WO_3-TiO_2$ 시편은 고온에서 $TiO_2$에 고용되어 있던 amorphous 상태의 $WO_3$가 $TiO_2$ 입자 표면에 석출되며 결정화가 일어나게 되고 이로 인해 촉매의 입자성장을 억제함을 확인하였다. 따라서 SCR용 $TiO_2$ 촉매에 첨가된 $WO_3$는 anatase에서 rutile로의 상전이를 촉진시켜 고온에서의 촉매 활성을 저하시킬 수 있지만, 입성장 억제에 대한 영향이 커 결과적으로 고온안정성을 향상시킴을 확인하였다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.197-202
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• 1995

저압 화학 기상증착법으로 제작한 비정질 실리콘의 표면 형태 및 결정 성장 과정을 증착조건과 열처리 조건의 변화에 따라 조사하였다. 비정질에서 결정으로 변화하는 전이온도인 570~$590^{\circ}C$에서 증착한 시편은 (311)조직의 거친 표면으로 성장하였다. 같은 증착 온도에서 두께가 두꺼울수록 다결정에서 비정질로 변화하였다. 증착하는 과정에서의 결정화는 기판에서부터 시작되지만, 진공상태를 그대로 유지하고 비정질 실리콘을 전이온도에서 열처리하면 표면 실리콘 원자가 이동하여 결정화하였다.