• Journal of Institute of Convergence Technology
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.7-10
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• 2013

Metal oxides are known as stable materials during a thermal treatment. However, some oxides are readily evaporated at high temperatures. A voloxidation process is a head-end process for a pyroprocessing dealing with spent nuclear fuels (SF). In SFs, fission productions are in the form of oxides and some of them would be evaporated during the voloxidation process. Therefore, it is of importance to analyse the vapor pressures of metal oxides so that the material flows throughout the pyroprocessing could be estimated. In this work, vapor pressures of relevant metal oxides were calculated and presented to draw a baseline on the material flow of the pyroprocessing.

• Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
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• v.68
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• pp.335-341
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• 2018

We report the catalytic effects of metal oxides on the $CO_2$ absorption rate in an aqueous potassium salt of ${\text\tiny{L}}-lysine-HCl$ using the vapor liquid equilibrium method. The best $CO_2$ absorption rate obtained through testing metal oxides in a highly concentrated potassium salt of amino acids (2.0 M) was identified using CuO. The recyclability of the metal oxides was tested over three cycles. The catalyst CuO was found to enhance the absorption rate of $CO_2$ by 61%. A possible mechanism was proposed based on NMR spectroscopy studies. Further, the effect of change in liquid absorbent viscosity on $CO_2$ absorption is discussed.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.1-17
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• 2013

Metal oxides designed for application in conductometric gas sensors and approaches used for synthesis of metal oxides with improved gas sensing characteristics are discussed in present article.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.49-52
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• 1999

Various metal oxides such as Fe2O3, FeO, TiO2, MnO2, MoO3, WO3 and ZnO have been used as a catalyst for Gif-KRICT type cyclohexane oxidation. In this reaction, the conversion of cyclohexane to cyclohexanone and cyclohexanol and the selectivity ratio of cyclohexanone to cyclohexanol were greatly affected by the acidity of metal oxides. When metal oxide has more acidic property, the reactivity on oxidation is increased and the formation of cyclohexanone is more favored. From this result, we proposed a new mechanism for the biomimetic Gif-KRICT oxidation system.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.1161-1168
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• 1999

The redox property of oxide materials of the 3rd period transition metals(Cr~Zn), V, Mo, and W was studied with temperature-programmed reduction/temperature-programmed oxidation(TPR/TPO) experiment. The peak temperatures of TPO spectra were equal to or lower than those of TPR spectra. And the peak shapes of TPO spectra were broader than those of TPR ones. The activation energies of TPR/TPO for the oxides of the 3rd period transition metals showed in the range of 33~149 kJ/mol, while for the oxides of V, Mo, and W, they showed relatively higher values. The change of activation energies of TPR/TPO with various metal oxides showed a similar trend to the change of their metal-oxygen bond strengths. The change of activation energies of o-xylene oxidation for various metal oxides was proportional to the difference (${\Delta}E_a$) between the activation energy of TPR and that of TPO. From these results, we concluded that the oxidation of o-xylene over various metal oxide catalysts follows the Mars-van Krevelen mechanism including the surface reduction-oxidation of the metal oxide itself.

• Transactions of the Korean hydrogen and new energy society
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.268-275
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• 2003

The water-splitting process by the metal oxides using solar heat is one of the hydrogen production method. The hydrogen production process using the metal oxides (NiFe2O4/NiAl2O4,CoFe2O4/CoAl2O4, CoMnNiFerrite, CoMnSnFerrite, CoMnZnFerrite, CoSnZnFerrite) was carried out by two steps. The first step was carried out by the CH4-reduction to increase activation of metal oxides at operation temperature. And then, it was carried out the water-splitting reaction using the water at operation temperature for the second step. Hydrogen was produced in this step. The production rates of H2 were 110, 160, 72, 29, 17, $21m{\ell}/hr{\cdot}g-_{Metal\;Oxide}$ for NiFe2O4/NiAl2O4, CoFe2O4/CoAl2O4, CoMnNiFerrite, CoMnSnFerrite, CoMnZnFerrite, CoSnZnFerrite respectively in the second step. CoFe2O4/CoAl2O4 had higher H2 production rate than the other metal oxides.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.35D no.7
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• pp.79-87
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• 1998

Nitrided oxides which have been investigated as alternative gate oxide for metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect devices were grown by two-step process using N$_{2}$O gas, and were chaacterized via a fowler-nordheim tunneling(FNT) electron injection technique. Electrical characteristics of nitrided gate oxides were superior to that of control oxides.Further, the FNT electron injection into the nitrided gate oxides reveals that gate oxides degrade more both if electrons were foreced to inject from the gate metal and if thicker nitrided gate oxides were used in the thickness range of 90~130.angs.. Models are suggested to explain these phenomena.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.221-227
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• 2006

Oxidative TCE decomposition over $TiO_2$-supported single and complex metal oxide catalysts has been conducted using a continuous flow type fixed-bed reactor system. Different types of commercial $TiO_2$ were used for obtaining the supported catalysts via an incipient wetness technique. Among a variety of titanias and metal oxides used, a DT51D $TiO_2\;and\;CrO_x$ would be the respective promising support and active ingredient for the oxidative TCE decomposition. The $TiO_2-based\;CrO_x$ catalyst gave a significant dependence of the catalytic activity in TCE oxidation reaction on the metal loadings. The use of high $CrO_x$ contents for preparing $CrO_x/TiO_2$ catalysts might produce $Cr_2O_3$ crystallites on the surface of $TiO_2$, thereby decreasing catalytic performance in the oxidative decomposition at low reaction temperatures. Supported $CrO_x$-based bimetallic oxide systems offered a very useful approach to lower the $CrO_x$ amounts without any loss in their catalytic activity for the catalytic TCE oxidation and to minimize the formation of Cl-containing organic products in the course of the catalytic reaction.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2013.02a
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• pp.132-132
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• 2013

Colloidal synthesis of nanoparticles with well-controlled size, shape, and composition, together with development of in situ surface science characterization tools, such as ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (APXPS), has brought new opportunities to unravel the surface structure of working catalysts. Recent studies suggest that surface oxides on transition metal nanoparticles play an important role in determining the catalytic activity of CO oxidation. In this talk, I will outline the recent studies on the influence of surface oxides on Rh, Pt, Ru and Co nanoparticles on the catalytic activity of CO oxidation [1-3]. Transition metal nanoparticle model catalysts were synthesized in the presence of poly(vinyl pyrrolidone) polymer capping agent and deposited onto a flat Si support as two-dimensional arrays using the Langmuir-Blodgett deposition technique. APXPS studies exhibited the reversible formation of surface oxides during oxidizing, reducing, and CO oxidation reaction [4]. General trend is that the smaller nanoparticles exhibit the thicker surface oxides, while the bigger ones have the thin oxide layers. Combined with the nature of surface oxides, this trend leads to the different size dependences of catalytic activity. Such in situ observations of metal nanoparticles are useful in identifying the active state of the catalysts during use and, hence, may allow for rational catalyst designs for practical applications. I will also show that the surface oxide can be engineered by using the simple surface treatment such as UV-ozone techniques, which results in changing the catalytic activity [5]. The results suggest an intriguing way to tune catalytic activity via engineering of the nanoscale surface oxide.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2011.02a
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• pp.65-65
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• 2011

We report the application of conducting metal oxide electrodes for semiconducting metal oxide gas sensors. Pt interdigitated electrodes have been commonly used for metal oxide gas sensor because of the low resistivity, excellent thermal and chemical stability of Pt. However, the high cost of Pt is an obstacle for the wide use of metal oxide gas sensors compared with its counterpart electrochemical gas sensors. Meanwhile, relatively low-cost conducting metal oxides are widely being used for light-emitting diodes, flat panel displays, solar cell and etc. In this work, we have fabricated $WO_3$ and $SnO_2$ thin film gas sensors using interdigitated electrodes of conducting metal oxides. Thin film gas sensors based on conducting metal oxides exhibited superior gas sensing properties than those using Pt interdigitated electrodes. The result was attributed to the low contact resistance between the conducting metal oxide and the sensing material. Consequently, we demonstrated the feasibility of conducting metal oxide interdigitated electrodes for novel gas sensors.