본 연구에서는 다공성 Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) 중공사막을 지지체막으로 하여 Poly styrene sulfonic acid (PSSA) 와 polyethyleneimine (PEI)을 이용하여 layer-by-layer법으로 선택층을 형성시켰다. 코팅용액에 Mg염을 첨가하여 염석법(salting out method)을 이용하였다. 코팅용액의 이온세기, 고분자 농도, 코팅시간 등을 달리하여 나노여과막을 제조하였으며 NaCl, MgCl2, CaSO4 100 mg/L를 공급액으로 하여 2 atm의 구동 압력에서 투과도와 염 배제율을 평가하였다. PSSA 20,000 ppm, 코팅시간 3분, 이온세기 1.0, PEI 30,000 ppm, 코팅시간 1분, 이온세기 0.1의 조건으로 코팅한 막이 가장 우수한 성능을 보여 주었다. 100 ppm의 NaCl, MgCl2, CaSO4 공급액에서 각각 20.4, 19.4, 18.7 LMH의 투과도와 67, 90, 66.6%의 염 배제율을 나타내었다.

For electrodes in electrochemical double-layer capacitors, carbon nanofibers (CNFs) were prepared by thermal treatment of precursor polymer nanofibers, fabricated by electrospinning. Poly(acrylonitrile-co-vinylimidazole) (PAV) was employed as a precursor polymer of carbon nanofibers due to the effective cyclization of PAV polymer chains during thermal treatment compared to a typical precursor, polyacrylonitrile (PAN). PAV solutions with different comonomer compositions were prepared and electrospun to produce precursor nanofibers. Surface images obtained from scanning electron microscopy showed that their nanofibrous structure was well preserved after carbonization. It was also confirmed that electrospun PAV nanofibers were successfully converted to carbon nanofibers after the carbonization step by Raman spectroscopy. Carbon nanofiber electrodes derived from PAV showed higher specific capacitances and energy/power densities than those from PAN, which was tested by coin-type cells. It was also shown that PAV with an acrylonitrile/vinylimidazole composition of 83:17 is most promising for the carbon nanofiber precursor exhibiting a specific capacitance of 114 F/g. Their energy and power density are 70.1 Wh/kg at 1 A/g and 9.5 W/kg at 6 A/g, respectively. In addition, pouch cells were assembled to load the higher amount of electrode materials in the cells, and a box-like cyclic voltammetry was obtained with high capacitances.

Isotactic polyacrylonitrile (PAN) with triad isotacticity of 0.53, which was determined by 13C NMR, using dialkylmagnesium as an initiator, was successfully synthesized. Isothermal treatment of iso-PAN was conducted in air at 200, 220, 250 and 280℃. Structural evolutions and chemical changes were studied with Fourier transformation infrared and wide-angle X-ray diffraction during stabilization. A new parameter CNF=I2240cm-1/ (I1595cm-1+f*I1595cm-1) was defined to evaluate residual nitrile groups. Crystallinity and crystal size were calculated with X-ray diffraction dates. The results indicated that the nitrile groups had partly converted into a ladder structure as stabilization proceeded. The rate of reaction increased with treatment temperature; crystallinity and crystal size decreased proportionally to pyrolysis temperature. The iso-conversional method coupled with the Kissinger and Flynn-Wall-Ozawa methods were used to determine kinetic parameters via differential scanning calorimetry analysis with different heating rates. The active energy of the reaction was 171.1 and 169.1 kJ/mol, calculated with the two methods respectively and implied the sensitivity of the reaction with temperature.