Transition metal carbides (TMCs) are used to process difficult-to-cut materials due to the trend of requiring superior wear and corrosion properties compared to those of cemented carbides used in the cutting industry. In this study, TMC (TiC, TaC, Mo2C, and NbC)-based cermets were consolidated by spark plasma sintering at 1,300 oC (60 oCmin) with a pressure of 60 MPa with Co addition. The sintering behavior of TMCs depended exponentially on the function of the sintering exponent. The Mo2C-6Co cermet was fully densified, with a relative density of 100.0 %. The Co-binder penetrated the hard phase (carbides) by dissolving and re-precipitating, which completely densified the material. The mechanical properties of the TMCs were determined according to their grain size and elastic modulus: TiC-6Co showed the highest hardness of 1,872.9 MPa, while NbC-6Co showed the highest fracture toughness of 10.6 MPa*m1/2. The strengthened grain boundaries due to high interfacial energy could cause a high elastic modules; therefore, TiC-6Co showed a value of 452 ± 12 GPa.

Tin bis(monohydrogen orthophosphate) monohydrate 물질의 흡착 성질에 관하여 KCl 수용액을 통하여 조사하였다. 금속이온 농도와 pH를 변화시키면서 어떻게 달라지는지 화학평형에 바탕을 두고 data를 분석하였다. 금속이온들의 흡착 data는 Langmuir 흡착식에 넣어 Langmuir 수치들을 얻는데 사용되었다. Tin phosphate는 산성에서 이온교환 화합물로 작용하였으며, 2가의 전이금속이온에 대해 Cu+2 > Co+2 > Ni+2의 순서로 선택적 흡착성질을 나타내었다. 약한 산성 이온 교환체에서와 같이 금속이온의 교환은 tin phosphate의 선택성을 결정하는데 결정적 역할을 하였다. 모든 경우에서 흡착의 정도는 온도와 농도의 증가와 함께 증가하였다. Lnngmuir 수치들은 흡착과정 동안의 엔트로피, 엔탈피, 자유에너지 변화량같은 열역학적 함수들을 계산하는데 이용되었다.

광촉매는 물에서 유기 염료를 분해하는 친환경적 기술이다. 산화 텅스텐은 이산화 티타늄에 비해 더 작은 밴드갭을 지니고 있어 광촉매 나노물질로서 활발히 연구되고 있다. 계층적 구조의 합성, 백금 도핑, 나노 복합물 또는 다른 반도체 와의 결합 등이 광촉매 분해 효율을 향상시키는 방법들로 연구되고 있다. 이들 방법들은 광 파장의 적색편이를 유도하여 전자 이동, 전자-정공 쌍의 형성과 재결합에 영향을 미친다. 산화 텅스텐의 형태 개질을 통해 앞서 언급한 광촉매 분해 효율을 향상시키는 방법들과 합성에 대해 분석하였으며 금속 산화물과 탄소 복합재를 결합하는 방법이 새로운 물질의 합성이 필요 없으며 가장 효율적인 방법으로 조사되었다. 이러한 광촉매 기술은 수처리 분리막기술과 모듈화하여 정수처리 목적으로 사용 될 수 있다.

The present polymer have a conjugated polymer backbone system with the designed substituents. The photoluminescence peak of polymer was observed at 525nm, which is corresponded to the photon energy of 2.36 eV and the band gap of poly(EBA) was 2.38 eV. The cyclovoltamograms of the polymer exhibited the irreversible electrochemical behaviors. It was found that the kinetics of the redox process of this conjugated polymer might be mainly controlled by the diffusion process from the experiment of the oxidation current density of polymer versus the scan rate.

Cathode materials and their precursors are prepared with transition metal solutions recycled from the thewaste lithium-ion batteries containing NCM (nickel-cobalt-manganese) cathodes by a H2 and C-reduction process. Therecycled transition metal sulfate solutions are used in a co-precipitation process in a CSTR reactor to obtain the tran-sition metal hydroxide. The NCM cathode materials (Ni:Mn:Co=5:3:2) are prepared from the transition metal hydroxideby calcining with lithium carbonate. X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy analyses show that the cathodematerial has a layered structure and particle size of about 10 µm. The cathode materials also exhibited a capacity ofabout 160 mAh/g with a retention rate of 93~96% after 100 cycles.

Oxidation characteristics of benzene as a VOC were investigated using a fixed bed reactor system over transition metal catalysts. The transition metal catalysts were made by using transition metal nitrate reagent and various support materials such as γ-Al2O3, and TiO2. The parametric tests were conducted at the reaction temperature range of 200～500℃, benzene concentration of 2,000～3,000 ppm with space velocity of 10000 hr-1. The property analyses such as BET, SEM, TGA and the conversions of catalytic oxidation of VOC were examined. The experimental results showed that the BET surface areas of catalyst are 86.4∼167.7m2/g, the pore volumes are 0.049∼0.056cm3/g, and the average pore sizes of catalyst are 27∼44Å, which mean the meso pore. It was also found that the conversion of benzene oxidation reaction at 400∼500℃ with Cu/γ-Al2O3+TiO2 catalyst showed 90∼100%, which indicate that the transition metal catalyst with composite supports is very effective for the oxidation of benzene.

Transition metal doped nanostructured powders were synthesized by mechanical alloying(MA) to shift the adsorption threshold into the visible light region. The synthesized powders were characterized by XRD, SEM, TEM and BET for structural analysis, UV-Vis and photoluminescence spectrum for the optical study. Also, photocatalytic abilities were evaluated by decomposition of 4-chlorophenol(4CP) under ultraviolet and visible light irradiations. Optical studies showed that the absorption wavelength of transition metal ions doped powders moved to visible light range, which was believed to be induced by the energy level change due to the doping. Among the prepared powders, doped powders, showed excellent photooxidative ability in 4CP decomposition

장군광산은 과거 갱도채굴한 폐금속광산으로 위치는 N36° 51'31.59", E129° 03'38.91"에 위치하고 있다. 산사면에 적치해 놓은 광미 적치장은 상부에 오염되지 않은 토양으로 약 20 cm 정도 복토한 후 아카시아를 식재해 놓은 상태이다. 광미 적치장에 식재해 놓은 아카시아는 대략 15년생 정도이다. 광미 적치장에서 채취한 토양시료의 중금속 농도는 As (66.43-9325.34 ㎎/㎏), Cd (0.96-1.09 ㎎/㎏), Cu (16.90-57.60 ㎎/㎏), Pb (57.33-945.67 ㎎/㎏), Zn (154.48-278.61 ㎎/㎏)으로 비오염 토양인 대조군의 As (38.98 ㎎/㎏), Cd (0.42 ㎎/㎏), Cu (10.26 ㎎/㎏), Pb (8.21 ㎎/㎏), Zn (46.74 ㎎/㎏) 보다 훨씬 높다. 가장 오염도가 높은 토양에 식재된 아카시아의 잎에서의 As, Cd, Cu, Pb, Zn의 농도는 각각 165.95, 0.04, 10.68, 3.18, 48.11 ㎎/㎏이다. 비오염 토양에 식재되어 있는 아카시아의 잎에서의 중금속 농도는 As 1.31㎎/㎏, Cu 3.90 ㎎/㎏, Pb 0.22 ㎎/㎏, Zn 11.01 ㎎/㎏이다. 아카시아에서의 중금속의 농집도는 껍질과 잎에서 높으며 심재와 변재에서 낮은 경향을 나타낸다.

Alumina-supported catalysts containing different transition metals such as Cu, Cr, Mn, Zn, Co, W were investigated for their activity in the selective oxidation of toluene. Catalytic oxidation of toluene was investigated at atmospheric pressure in a fixed bed flow reactor system over transition metals with Al2O3 catalyst. The result showed the order of catalytic activities for the complete oxidation of toluene was Mn > Cu> Cr> Co> W> Zn for 5wt.% transition metals/Al2O3. Mn/Al2O3 catalysts containing different amount of Mn were characterized by X-ray diffraction spectroscopy for decision of loading amount of metal to alumina. 5 wt.%Mn/Al2O3 catalyst exhibits the highest catalytic activity, over which the toluene conversion was up to 90% at a temperature of 289℃.

The purpose of this study is to synthesize transition metal doped mesoporous silica catalyst and to characterize its surface in an attempt to decomposition of N2O. Transition metal used to surface modification were Ru, Pd, Cu and Fe concentration was adjusted to 0.05 M. The prepared mesoporous silica catalysts were characterized by X-ray diffraction, BET surface area, BJH pore size, Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-ray fluorescence. The results of XRD for mesoporous silica catalysts showed typical the hexagonal pore system. BET results showed the mesoporous silica catalysts to have a surface area of 537 ∼973 m2/g and pore size of 2∼4 nm. The well-dispersed particle of mesoporous silica catalysts were observed by SEM, the presence and quantity of transition metal loading to mesoporous surface were detected by XRF. The N2O decomposition efficiency on mesoporous silica catalysts were as follow: Ru>Pd>Cu>Fe. The results suggest that transition metal doped mesoporous silica is effective catalyst for decomposition of N2O.