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Electrical

material

laboratory

Location : Hanbat National Univercity N3- #111

​한밭대학교 전기재료 연구실

Ongoing Projects

01

Carbon based Nanomaterial

Secondary capacitors and second cells are mostly used in large-capacity power storage devices such as energy storage system (ESS), and many studies are being conducted to improve the efficiency and economic feasibility of such energy storage devices. While porous carbon has been used as a carbon-based electrode material for energy storage devices, studies were recently conducted to enhance the electrode efficiency using carbon-based nanomaterials such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and graphene. CNT requires a metal catalyst for synthesis, and a post-treatment process must be followed to improve its purity. Also, it is difficult to accurately formulate and disperse CNT when it is used as an electrode material. As graphene has a one-dimensional planar structure, its reactivity is higher than that of CNT, which has a two-dimensional structure. It is difficult, however, to develop a large-scale and high-quality synthesis technology for the commercialization of graphene. Carbon nanowalls (CNWs), which were found during the synthesis of CNT, are carbon-based materials and have a two-dimensional structure in which several layers of graphene are vertically grown on a substrate. CNWs with this unique appearance have the largest reaction surface area among the carbon-based materials. As CNWs are carbon-based materials, they have high electrical conductivity and electron affinity. Therefore, they can be used as electrode materials to improve the performance of electrodes. The large-area mass production of CNWs is possible through the microwave plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition(PECVD) method.

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02

The self-cleaning property is defined as the capability of a surface to naturally rid itself of the environmental contaminants that have attached onto it by being washed away by rainwater or being blown away by the wind. There are many self-cleaning methods that can maintain the transparency of the cover glass of a PV module, such as the mechanical or machine method. Among the existing coating materials, the TiO2 film, which has a photocatalysis function, has been broadly studied. The film, however, has lower adhesion and hardness, high cost, installation difficulties, energy source requirements for chemical catalysis, and low yield rate Issues. Introduced herein is a novel hydrophilic coating material synthesized with water-abundant SiO2 . The properties of the novel SiO2-based self-cleaning material for solar panels are characterized herein in terms of the water contact angle, hardness, adhesion, optical transmittance, and self-cleaning based on the formation method used.

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03

In this study, the solution plasma sputtering method was used in the synthesis of silver nanoparticles. The effects of changing the input DC voltage and input frequency of the synthesized silver nanoparticles using power supply and the solution plasma sputtering method were analyzed via FE-SEM (field emission scanning electron microscopy) and EDS (energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy).

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