대용량 화학 및 청정에너지의 운반체인 수소는 석유화학 산업 및 연료전지 등에서 많이 활용되는 중요한 산업용 기체이다. 특히 수소는 주로 증기개질 및 가스화를 통해 화석 연료에서 생성되며 부산물로 이산화탄소가 발생한다. 따라서 고 순도 수소를 얻기 위해서는 이산화탄소를 제거해야 한다. 본 총설에서는 배러 단위[1 Barrer = 10−10 cm3 (STP) × cm / (cm2 × s × cmHg)]로 보고된 이산화탄소로부터 수소를 분리하는 프리스탠딩 고분자 분리막 및 혼합매질 분리막에 초점을 맞추었 다. 최근 보고된 다양한 논문들을 분석하여 분리막의 구조, 형태, 상호 작용 및 제조 방법에 대해 논의하고 구조-물성 관계를 이해하여 향후 더 나은 분리막 소재를 찾는 데 도움이 되고자 한다. 다양한 분리막의 성능 및 특성 검토를 통해 수소/이산화 탄소 분리에 대한 Robeson 성능 한계선을 제시하고, 가교, 혼합 및 열처리 등의 기술을 사용하여 분리 특성을 개선하는 다양 한 혼합매질 분리막에 대해 논의하였다.

Individual multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) were exposed to the electron beam of 200 kV energy and high resolution transmission electron micrographs were recorded at several time intervals. Interestingly, the nucleation of diamond nanoparticles with in the highly disordered MWCNT matrix upon electron-irradiation is observed. This happens without any assistance of high pressures and temperatures. High pressure X-ray diffraction experiments were performed on core/shell structures which suggest that even the closed structures of carbon resist any inward pressure, thereby ruling out the possibility of a hypothetical internal pressure under the electron irradiation conditions. Our experiments suggest that the transformation of graphitic carbon into diamond in the size window of a few nanometers is possible due to the stability of the diamond and a selective dissolution effect of 200 kV electrons on graphite. A mechanism for the same is proposed.

Rapid development of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) reinforced to polymer composites has been recently noticed in many aspects. In this work, the latest developments on fatigue and fracture enhancement of polymer composites with CNTs reinforcement with diverse methods are thoroughly compiled and systematically reviewed. The existing available researches clearly demonstrate that fatigue fracture resistance of polymer composites can be improved accordingly with the addition of CNTs. However, this work identifies an interesting research gap for the first time in this field. Based on the systematic reviewing approach, it is noticed that all previously performed experiments in this field were mostly focused upon studying one factor only at a time. In addition, it is also addressed that there were no previous studies reported a relationship or effect of one factor upon others during examining the fatigue fracture of carbon nanotubes. Moreover, there was no adequate discussion demonstrating the interaction of parameters or the influence of one parameter upon another when both were examined simultaneously. It is also realized that the scope of the conducted fatigue fracture studies of carbon nanotubes were mainly focused on microscale fatigue analysis but not the macroscale one, which can consider the effect of environment and service condition. In addition, the inadequacy of fatigue life predicting models via analytical and numerical methods for CNT-reinforced polymer composites have also been highlighted. Besides, barriers and challenges for future directions on the application of CNT-reinforced polymer composite materials are also discussed here in details.

During the treatment of spent nuclear fuel, radioactive iodine is generated in a liquefied or gaseous form in a specific process. In the case of iodine 129, it is a long-lived nuclide with a very long halflife and has high groundwater mobility under repository conditions. Despite showing a low radioactivity value, research on the management of radioactive iodine from a long-term perspective is continuously being performed. Although research has been conducted using borosilicate glass as a medium for solidifying iodine, compatibility of I in borosilicate glass is very small and the volatility is high in the solidification process. So it is not suitable as a solidified substance of iodine. Therefore, studies on other solidification media to replace them are continuously being conducted. Our research team tried to develop a new medium that can contain iodine in a solidified body stably through a simple heat treatment process and can improve problems such as volatility and waste loading. Iodine is captured as AgI in the Ag ion-exchanged zeolite. So, TeO2, Ag2O, and Bi2O3 having a high AgI loading rate were used as main components. It was named TAB after taking the first letter of each element. In previous studies, the physical properties, structure, and chemical stability of TAB materials were confirmed. PCT (Product Consistent test) was performed to confirm chemical stability. It is mainly used to compare the chemical stability of glass materials with other glass materials, but there are limitations in evaluating the long-term chemical stability of materials. In this experiment, we tried to evaluate the long-term stability of TAB and compare it with borosilicate, which is conventionally used to treat radioactive waste. In addition, we tried to understand the leaching behavior inside the TAB medium. For this purpose, ASTM C1308 test was performed for 365 days, and distilled water and KURT groundwater were used as leachates to examine the effect of ions in the groundwater on the solidified body. To analyze the leaching behavior, ICP-MS and ICP-OES analyses were performed, and the cross-section of the sample after leaching was observed through SEM.

Radioactive Cesium is fission products of spent nuclear fuelwith high heat generating nuclide, having a 30 years half-life. Particularly, it is important to make stable waste form because Cs-137 have high solubility and mobility at ground water. The ceramic waste form has higher thermal and structural stability and lower solubility than glass and cement waste form. Various ceramic waste forms for Cs immobilization have been researched such as aluminosilicate (CsAlSi2O6), phosphate (CsZr2(PO4)3), titanate (CsxAlxTi8-XO16) and CsZr0.4W1.5O6. Cs pollucite is incorporated radio-Cesium to aluminosilicate framework by inorganic ion-exchange with zeolite. Therefore, it is an extremely stable structure. In previous study, we are prepared Cs pollucite pellet with various ratio of Cs precursor/matrix materials, and attempted to evaluate applicability as ceramic waste form. Cs pollucite is produced by mixing Mullite and SiO2 obtained by heat treatment Kaolinite with Cs2CO3 in ratios of 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8. Optimized ratio was 0.5 revealed single pollucite phase and the others exhibited CsAlSiO4 phase with pollucite. Cs pollucite of ratio 0.5 was pelletized under various conditions and evaluated performance as waste form. herein, the pellets were cracked on surface and edges broken. Therefore, Cs pollucite having high ratio of matrix materials contained Si and Al was prepared and pelletized, and then waste form was evaluated. The Cs pollucite powder is ratio of Cs precursor/matrix materials were 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4. Pollucite powder was mixed with 1.5, 2.0wt% Polyvinyl alcohol as binder, and dried at 70°C for overnight. Afterward, these powders obtained were pressed using punch-die apparatus at 50, 100 bar for 1 hour and the pellets with about dia. 25 mm and height 10 mm was acquired. These pellets were sintered at 1,400°C for 5 hours. Subsequently, the waste forms were evaluated physicochemical test such as compression strength, thermal conductivity, thermal expansion and leaching properties analysis.

To date, the development of anticancer drugs has been conducted using two-dimensional (2D) cell culture systems. However, since cancer cells in the body are generated and developed in three-dimensional (3D) microenvironments, the use of 2D anticancer drug screening can make it difficult to accurately evaluate the anticancer effects of drug candidates. Therefore, as a step towards developing a cancer cellfriendly 3D microenvironment based on a combination of vinylsulfone-functionalized polyethylene glycol (PEG-VS) with dicysteine-containing crosslinker peptides with an intervening matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-specific cleavage site, the types of MMPs secreted from human hepatocarcinoma HepG2 cells, a representative cancer cell, were analyzed transcriptionally and translationally. MMP3 was confirmed to be the most highly expressed protease secreted by HepG2 cells. This knowledge will be important in the design of a crosslinker necessary for the construction of PEG-based hydrogels customized for the 3D culture of HepG2 cells.

In vivo oocytes grow and mature in ovarian follicles whereas oocytes are matured in vitro in plastic culture dishes with a hard surface. In vivo oocytes show a superior developmental ability to in vitro counterparts, indicating suboptimal environments of in vitro culture. This study aimed to evaluate the influence of an agarose matrix as a culture substrate during in vitro maturation (IVM) on the development of pig oocytes derived from small antral follicles (SAFs). Cumulusoocyte complexes (COCs) retrieved from SAFs were grown in a plastic culture dish without an agarose matrix and then cultured for maturation in a plastic dish coated without (control) or with a 1% or 2% (w/v) agarose hydrogel. Then, the effect of the soft agarose matrix on oocyte maturation and embryonic development was assessed by analyzing intra-oocyte contents of glutathione (GSH) and reactive oxygen species (ROS), expression of VEGFA, HIF1A , and PFKP genes, and blastocyst formation after parthenogenesis. IVM of pig COCs on a 1% (w/v) agarose matrix showed a significantly higher blastocyst formation, intra-oocyte GSH contents, and transcript abundance of VEGFA. Moreover, a significantly lower intra-oocyte ROS content was detected in oocytes matured on the 1% and 2% (w/v) agarose matrices than in control. Our results demonstrated that IVM of SAFs-derived pig oocytes on a soft agarose matrix enhanced developmental ability by improving the cytoplasmic maturation of oocytes through redox balancing and regulation of gene expression.

본 논문에서는 유지보수를 위한 구조물 인상 시 위험도 분석을 수행하여 안전사고를 방지할 수 있는 스마트 자동 인상 시스템을 개 발하였다. 쌍대비교행렬 분석 기법을 활용하여 위험도를 분석할 수 있는 정량적 위험도 분석 프로그램을 개발하였고, 이를 자동 인상 시스템과 연계하여 구조물 인상과 동시에 실시간으로 위험도 분석을 하였다. 자동 인상 시스템의 구성요소 중 거리측정센서로 구조 물 인상 시의 변위를 측정하고, 측정된 변위는 정량적 위험도 분석 프로그램에 입력되어 위험도를 분석한다. 개발한 스마트 자동 인상 시스템의 성능을 확인하기 위해 실제 교량을 대상으로 실험을 수행하였으며, 구조물 인상과 동시에 위험도 분석이 가능한지를 확인 하였다. 스마트 자동 인상 시스템의 성능을 평가하기 위해 인상실험 시 검증된 LVDT(linear variable differential transformer)를 함께 설치하였으며 거리측정센서와 LVDT로 측정되는 변위로 최대 인상량과 구역별 단차를 분석하였다. 인상장치의 동시 작동에 대한 성 능을 통계적 분석방법인 분산분석(analysis of variance) 방법을 이용하여 성능을 검증하였다.

Poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) 막은 내구성 및 열적⋅화학적 안정성 등의 물성은 우수하나 소수성이 커서 수투과도가 낮고 단백질 및 유기물에 의한 막오염이 쉽게 발생한다. 본 연구에서는 PVDF 막의 내오염성을 개선시키고자 바이오 기능성 물질인 β-cyclodextrin (β-CD)을 PVDF 막 구조 내에 분산 함침시킨 PVDF/β-CD 혼합기질 비대칭막을 상변환 법을 통해 제조하고, β-CD 함침량에 따른 순수 투과 유속(PWF) 측정과 BSA 용액을 대상으로 한 막여과 실험을 수행하여 내오염성 특성을 평가하였다. 이 결과 PVDF 고분자 매질 내에 β-CD를 함침시키면 막의 친수성을 증가시켜 접촉각을 감소시키고 이로 인해 내오염성을 향상시킬 수 있었다. β-CD 함침량이 2 wt%인 도프용액을 사용하여 제조된 PVDF/β-CD 혼합 기질 비대칭막의 PWF는 64 L/m2⋅h, BSA 배제도는 95%를 나타내었으며, β-CD를 첨가하지 않고 제조된 pristine PVDF 막에 비해 투과 유속 향상성이 최대 80%에 달해 β-CD를 첨가시킴으로서 PVDF 막의 내오염성을 증가시킬 수 있었다.

본 연구에서는 PEBAX2533에 합성된 GO와 PEI-GO의 함량을 달리 첨가하여 혼합막을 제조하고 N2와 CO2의 투과 특성을 연구하였다. PEBAX/GO 혼합막의 N2와 CO2 투과도는 전체적으로 GO 함량이 증가할수록 감소하였고, GO 0.3 wt%에서 가장 높은 CO2/N2 선택도 58.9를 보였다. 그리고 PEBAX/PEI-GO 혼합막에서 N2 투과도는 PEI-GO 함량이 증가함에 따라 감소하였고, CO2 투과도는 PEI-GO 함량에 따라 다른 경향을 보였으며 전체적으로 PEBAX/GO 혼합막보다 더 높은 CO2/N2 선택도를 보였다. 특히 PEI-GO 0.3 wt%는 혼합막들 중 가장 높은 CO2/N2 선택도인 73.5를 보이며 Robeson upper bound 위에 위치하는 긍정적인 결과를 얻었다. 이는 본연의 GO 구조에 의한 molecular sieving channel 효과와 CO2에 친화성이 있는 GO의 구조 내에 존재하는 작용기 그리고 GO를 PEI로 개질함으로써 PEI에 결합되어 있는 amine에 의한 효과가 함께 작용했기 때문으로 생각된다.

Cu matrix composites reinforced with chopped carbon fiber (CF), which is cost effective and can be well dispersed, are fabricated using electroless plating and hot pressing, and the effects of content and alignment of CF on the thermal properties of CF/Cu composites are studied. Thermal conductivity of CF/Cu composite increases with CF content in the in-plane direction, but it decreases above 10% CF; this is due to reduction of thermal diffusivity related with phonon scattering by agglomeration of CF. The coefficient of thermal expansion decreases in the in-plane direction and increases in the through-plane direction as the CF content increases. This is because the coefficient of thermal expansion of the long axis of CF is smaller than that of the Cu matrix, and the coefficient of thermal expansion of its short axis is larger than that of the Cu matrix. The thermal conductivity is greatly influenced by the agglomeration of CF in the CF/Cu composite, whereas the coefficient of thermal expansion is more influenced by the alignment of CF than the aggregation of CF.

본 연구에서는 게임 동영상의 고화질 변환이 가능한 초해상화 알고리즘을 제시한다. 본 알고리즘은 오픈 소 스 형태의 GPU에서 제공하는 MMU에서 구현될 수 있도록 희소 행렬 연산을 이용해서 설게된다. 이를 위해 서 일반적인 영상 해상도 향상 방법인 이중 일차 및 이중 삼차 보간 법과 심층 학습에 기반한 초해상화 모 델에서 사용하는 컨볼루션 연산을 희소 행렬 연산으로 변환하는 방법을 제시한다. 이는 각 픽셀에 적용되는 필터를 행렬 곱 형태로 표현하고, 이 행렬을 희소 행렬로 표현함으로써 수행되는데, 이러한 과정을 통해서 연산의 효율성을 추구함으로써 안정적인 초해상화 알고리즘을 제공한다. 이러한 희소행렬 연산 형태로 표현 되는 초해상화 알고리즘은 기존의 라이브러리를 이용해서 구현된 초해상화 알고리즘과 유사한 PSNR과 FPS 를 보인다.

Composite materials offer distinct and unique properties that are not naturally inherited in the individual materials that make them. One of the most attractive composites to manufacture is the aluminum alloy matrix composite, because it usually combines easiness of availability, light weight, strength, and other favorable properties. In the current work, Powder Metallurgy Method (PMM) is used to prepare Al2024 matrix composites reinforced with different mixing ratios of yttrium oxide (Y2O3) particles. The tests performed on the composites include physical, mechanical, and tribological, as well as microstructure analysis via optical microscope. The results show that the experimental density slightly decreases while the porosity increases when the reinforcement ratio increases within the selected range of 0 ~ 20 wt%. Besides this, the yield strength, tensile strength, and Vickers hardness increase up to a 10 wt% Y2O3 ratio, after which they decline. Moreover, the wear results show that the composite follows the same paradigm for strength and hardness. It is concluded that this composite is ideal for application when higher strength is required from aluminum composites, as well as lighter weight up to certain values of Y2O3 ratio.

Understanding of effects of changes in the particle size of the matrix material on the mullite whisker growth during the production of porous mullite is crucial for better design of new porous ceramics materials in different applications. Commercially, raw materials such as Al2O3/SiO2 and Al(OH)3/SiO2 are used as starting materials, while AlF3 is added to fabricate porous mullite through reaction sintering process. When Al2O3 is used as a starting material, a porous microstructure can be identified, but a more developed needle shaped microstructure is identified in the specimen using Al(OH)3, which has excellent reactivity. The specimen using Al2O3/SiO2 composite powder does not undergo mulliteization even at 1,400 oC, but the specimen using the Al(OH)3/SiO2 composite powder had already formed complete mullite whiskers from the particle size specimen milled for 3 h at 1,100 oC. As a result, the change in sintering temperature does not significantly affect formation of microstructures. As the particle size of the matrix materials, Al2O3 and Al(OH)3, decreases, the porosity tends to decrease. In the case of the Al(OH)3/SiO2 composite powder, the highest porosity obtained is 75% when the particle size passes through a milling time of 3 h. The smaller the particle size of Al(OH)3 is and the more the long/short ratio of the mullite whisker phase decreases, the higher the density becomes.