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Jong-Sung Yu

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PubMed2005

Repeatability and reproducibility of thermal field-flow fractionation in molecular weight determination of processed natural rubber.

The purpose of this study is (1) to determine the repeatability and reproducibility of thermal field-flow fractionation (ThFFF) in measuring the molecular weight of compounded natural rubber, and (2) to examine the correlation between the molecular weights obtained from ThFFF and the rheological data. 8 batches of compounded natural rubber were obtained from a thermo-mechanical mastication process, and were analyzed by ThFFF in a designed testing sequence. ThFFF analysis showed the compounded natural rubbers range in weight-average molecular weight (M(w)) from 143,000 to 360,000. By taking into account both the short term variability (repeatability) as well as the long term variability (reproducibility) of the instrument, ThFFF was shown to be able to distinguish between samples differing by as little as 21,000 in M(w) and 15,600 in number-average molecular weight, M(n) (based on cis-polyisoprene calibration); and thus is a useful tool for the molecular weight analysis of natural rubber-related materials. It was also found that the rheological data (G' and tan delta) measured on both the virgin and the compounded natural rubber correlated well with the molecular weights obtained from ThFFF when normalized.

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PubMed2005

Fabrication of bimodal porous silicate with silicalite-1 core/mesoporous shell structures and synthesis of nonspherical carbon and silica nanocases with hollow core/mesoporous shell structures.

In this work, an attempt has been made to modify the shape and nanostructure of core-shell materials, which have been usually generated on the basis of amorphous spherical cores. Novel core-shell silicate particles, each of which consists of a silicalite-1 zeolite crystal core and mesoporous shell (ZCMS), were synthesized for the first time. The ZCMS core-shell particles are unique because they are of pseudohexagonal prismatic shape and have hierarchical porosity of both a uniform microporous core and a mesoporous shell coexisting in a particle framework. The nonspherical bimodal porous core-shell particles were then utilized as templates to fabricate a new carbon replica structure. Interestingly, the pore replication process was carried out only through the mesopores in the shell, and not through the micropores due to the narrower micropore size in the core, resulting in nonspherical carbon nanocases with a hollow core and mesoporous shell (HCMS) structure. Nonspherical silica nanocases with HCMS structure were also generated by replication using the carbon nanocases as templates, which are not possible to synthesize through other synthetic methods. Interestingly, the pseudohexagonal prismatic shape of the zeolite crystals was transferred onto the carbon and silica nanocases.

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PubMed2004

Spherical carbon capsules with hollow macroporous core and mesoporous shell structures as a highly efficient catalyst support in the direct methanol fuel cell.

Carbon capsules with hollow core and mesoporous shell (HCMS) structures were used as a support material for Pt(50)-Ru(50) catalyst, and the catalytic performance of the HCMS supported catalyst in the direct methanol fuel cell was described; the HCMS carbon supported catalysts exhibited much higher specific activity for methanol oxidation than the commonly used E-TEK catalyst by about 80%, proving that the HCMS carbon capsules are an excellent support for electrode catalysts in DMFC.

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PubMed2002

Fabrication of ordered uniform porous carbon networks and their application to a catalyst supporter.

Ordered uniform porous carbon frameworks showing interesting morphology variations were synthesized against removable colloidal silica crystalline templates through simply altering acid catalyst sites for acid-catalyzed polymerization. These highly ordered uniform porous carbons as a catalyst supporter resulted in much improved catalytic activity for methanol oxidation in a fuel cell.

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PubMed2002

Fabrication of macroporous SiC from templated preceramic polymers.

Macroporous SiC with a highly ordered pore array was prepared for the first time using low molecular weight SiC preceramic polymers such as polymethylsilane or polycarbosilane by utilizing sacrificial colloidal silica crystalline arrays, as a template which were subsequently etched off after pyrolysis in an argon atmosphere.

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