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Bis(silyl)alkylbenzenes such as bis(1-sila-sec-butyl)benzene (1) and 2-phenyl-1,3-disilapropane (2) were synthesized in high yields by the reduction of the corresponding chlorosilanes with LiAlH4 in diethyl ether. The dehydrocoupling of 1 and 2 was performed using group IV metallocene complexes generated in situ from Cp2MCl2/Red-Al and Cp2MCl2/n-BuLi (M = Ti, Hf), producing two phases of polymers. The TGA residue yields of the insoluble polymers were in the range of 64-74%. The molecular weights of the soluble polymers produced ranged from 700 to 5000 (Mw vs polystyrene using GPC) and from 500 to 900 (Mw vs polystyrene using GPC). The dehydropolymerization of 1 and 2 seemed to initially produce a low-molecular-weight polymer, which then underwent an extensive cross-linking reaction of backbone Si-H bonds, leading to an insoluble network polymer.

Ethylene-bridged silsesquioxane resins were synthesized from two monomers: 1,2-bis(trimethoxysilyl)ethane and methyltrimethoxysilane. The silsesquioxane thin films were spin-coated from the copolymerized resins on silicon wafer. Metal insulator metal (MIM), metal insulator semiconductor (MIS) devices were utilized to investigate the electrical properties of the copolymerized thin films. As the films were inserted as gate insulator in the OTFT devices, the field effect mobilitites were evaluated by employing Poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) as organic semiconductor, which shows that their dielectric properties and mobility values are dependent on the molecular structures and Si-OH concentration involving in the films.

A simple and rapid method is described for detecting nitroaromatic explosives in air or seawater with the use of photoluminescent organosilicon compounds. The synthesis, spectroscopic characterization, and fluorescence quenching efficiency of silafluorenes are reported. Silafluorenes were synthesized from the reduction of dilithiobiphenyl with dichlorosilanes. Two silafluorenes were used for the detection of nitroaromatic compounds. Detection of nitroaromatic molecules, such as 2,4-dinitrotoluene (DNT), 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT), and picric acid (PA), has been explored. A linear Stern-Volmer relationship was observed for the first three analytes. Fluorescence spectra of silafluorenes obtained in either toluene solutions or thin films displayed no shift in the maximum of the emission wavelength. The photoluminescence quenching occurs by a static mechanism.

Multi-functionalized rugate porous silicon (PSi) for biosensor was developed by hydrosilylation with silole and its further reaction with biotin groups. PSi was generated by an electrochemical etching of silicon wafer in aqueous ethanolic HF solution PSi prepared by using etching conditions showed that many sharp spectral lines can be obtained in the optical reflectivity spectrum. 1,1-hydrovinyl-2,3,4,5-tetraphenylsilole was obtained from the reaction of 1,1-dilithio-2,3,4,5-tetraphenyl-1,3-butadiene with dichlorovinylsilane. Multi-functionalized PSi with silole and biotin groups was characterized by UV-vis absorption spectroscopy, Ocean optics 2000 spectrometer, and fluorescence spectroscopy. Optical characteristics such as reflectivity and photoluminescence (PL) were observed. An increase of the reflection wavelength in the reflectivity spectrum by 20 nm was observed, indicative of a change in refractive indices induced by hydrosilylation of the silole and biotin groups to the rugate PSi. This red-shift was attributed to the replacement of some of the Si-H group of fresh rugate PSi with silole and biotin group.

Thiophene-derivatized pentiptycenes were synthesized and characterized by NMR and UV-Vis spectroscopy. Aggregation behavior of thiophene-derivatized pentiptycenes was monitored by the measurement of fluorescence. Fluorescence intensities for the thiophene-derivatized pentiptycenes and thiophene-derivatized pentiptycenes aggregates were compared. There is no shift in the maximum of the emission wavelength. In the range of water fraction between 20% and 40%, the emission intensity of thiophene-derivatized pentiptycene aggregates remains almost identical. Fluorescence efficiency incresaed by about 5 times higher when the thiophene-derivatized pentiptycenes forms the aggregates in solution.

The functionalized photonic crystals of porous silicon biosensor was prepared for the application as a label-free biosensor based on distributed Bragg reflector interferometer. Prepared distributed Bragg reflector of porous silicon biosensor displayed sharp reflection in the optical reflective spectra. The mean of construction of molecular architectures on distributed Bragg reflector of porous silicon surfaces was investigated for the step-by-step binding interaction with amines, biotin, avidin, and biotinylated protein A. The subsequent introduction of avidin, and biotinylated protein A resulted in the reflectivity shifted to longer wavelengths, indicative of a change in refractive indices induced by binding of biomolecules.

인간은 정보전달을 위하여 언어 이외에 동작, 표정과 같은 비언어적인 수단을 이용한다. 이러한 비언어적인 수단을 정확히 분석 할 수 있다면 인간과 컴퓨터간의 자연스럽고 지적인 인터페이스를 구축할 수 있게 된다. 본 논문은 별도의 센서를 부착하지 않은 단일 카메라 환경에서 손 형상을 입력정보로 사용하여 손 영역만을 분할한 후 자기 조직화 특징 지도(SOFM: Self Organized Feature Map) 신경망 알고리즘을 이용하여 손 형상을 인식함으로서 수화인식을 위한 보다 안정적이며 강인한 인식 시스템을 구현하고자 한다. 제안 방법으로는 피부색 정보를 이용하여 배경으로부터 손 영역만을 추출한 후 추출된 손 영역의 형상을 인식한다(전처리과정으로 모델이미지의 사이즈와 압축 및 컬러에 대한 정보를 정규화 시켰다). 또한 인식 효율을 높이기 위해 SOFM 신경망 알고리즘을 적용함으로서 보다 안정적으로 손 형상을 인식할 수 있게 되었으며, 손 형상 인식률에 대한 안전성과 정확성을 향상시킬 수 있었다. 그리고 인식된 손 형상의 의미를 텍스트로 보여줌으로서 사용자의 의사를 정확하게 전달할 수 있다.

본 논문은 지역 부분영상을 이용한 실시간 CCTV결합 시스템에 고나한 연구로써 프레임에 관한 결합 인식방법을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 기존에 비해 결합속도를 줄이고 이에 따라 전체적인 인식률을 높이는 것을 목표로 하고 있다. 기존 방법인 SIFT알고리즘은 특허가 있고 처리속도가 늦기 때문에 본 논문에서 개선된 지역영상 재생성 방식을 이용하여 실질적으로 CCTV 처리속도에 맞추어 속도를 높였다. 논문은 지역화 이미지를 이용하여 인식률과 속도를 바탕으로 전체적인 시스템 구현과 함께 알고리즘을 소개하는 것으로 구성되어 있으며 실제 실험을 통한 성능을 비교 평가 하였다. 실시간으로 동작하는 CCTV에 적용시킴으로 각각의 화면이 아닌 Inline System으로 감시자의 신체적 피로를 줄이고 경제적인 효과를 볼 수 있고 일반 사용자들도 쉽게 사용할 수 있는 저비용 시스템을 구축하였다.

Molecular docking is a critical event which mostly forms Van der waals complex in molecular recognition. Since the majority of developed drugs are small molecules, docking them into proteins has been a prime concern in drug discovery community. Since the binding pose space is too vast to cover completely, many search algorithms such as genetic algorithm, Monte Carlo, simulated annealing, distance geometry have been developed. Proper evaluation of the quality of binding is an essential problem. Scoring functions derived from force fields handle the ligand binding prediction with the use of potential energies and sometimes in combination with solvation and entropy contributions. Knowledge-based scoring functions are based on atom pair potentials derived from structural databases. Forces and potentials are collected from known protein-ligand complexes to get a score for their binding affinities (e.g. PME). Empirical scoring functions are derived from training sets of protein-ligand complexes with determined affinity data. Because non of any single scoring function performs generally better than others, some other approaches have been tried. Although numerous scoring functions have been developed to locate the correct binding poses, it still remains a major hurdle to derive an accurate scoring function for general targets. Recently, consensus scoring functions and target specific scoring functions have been studied to overcome the current limitations.

A stoichiometric mixture of evaporating materials for ZnIn2Se4 single crystal thin films was prepared from horizontal electric furnace. To obtain the single crystal thin films, ZnIn2Se4 mixed crystal was deposited on thoroughly etched semiinsulating GaAs(100) substrate by the Hot Wall Epitaxy (HWE) system. The source and substrate temperatures were 630oC and 400oC, respectively. The crystalline structure of the single crystal thin films was investigated by the photoluminescence and double crystal X-ray diffraction (DCXD). The carrier density and mobility of ZnIn2Se4 single crystal thin films measured from Hall effect by van der Pauw method are 9.41×1016 cm-3 and 292 cm2/v·s at 293 K, respectively. The temperature dependence of the energy band gap of the ZnIn2Se4 obtained from the absorption spectra was well described by the Varshni's relation, Eg(T) = 1.8622 eV −(5.23×10-4 eV/K)T2/(T + 775.5 K).