Korea Institute of Science and Technology

Kyoungja Woo

Wooyoung Park

Ho Seong Jang

Sang Kyung Kim

Hae-Weon Lee

Jae-Pyoung Ahn

Su Yeon Kim

Sunjin Kim

Hye Hun Park

Yumi Na

Jongku Park

Kipil Lim

Seokheon Lee

Youngbeom Yu

Yu Ri Choi

Hyein Yoo

Sohye Cho

Dong Hyun Koo

A nanostructured hybrid particle, a manufacturing method thereof, and a device including the nanostructured hybrid particle are disclosed. The nanostructured hybrid particle includes a hydrophobic base particle having a convex-concave nanopattern on a surface thereof; a hydrophobic light-emitting nanoparticle disposed in a concave portion of the convex-concave nanopattern on the surface of hydrophobic base particle; and a coating layer covering the hydrophobic base particle and the hydrophobic light-emitting nanoparticle. In the nanostructured hybrid particle, light extraction may occur in all 3-dimensional directions, and thus, the nanostructured hybrid particle can exhibit high light extraction efficiency compared to light extraction occurring on a two-dimensional plane.

Nanostructured hybrid particle, manufacturing method thereof, and device including the nanostructured hybrid particle

A nanophosphor in accordance with one exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a fluoride-based nanoparticle co-doped with Ceand one selected from a group consisting of Tb, Euand a combination thereof. The nanophosphor may be excited by a single wavelength of ultraviolet rays to emit various colors of green, yellow, orange, red and the like, and exhibit high photostability without photoblinking. The nanophosphor may be utilized as a bio imaging contrast agent, a transparent display device, an anti-counterfeit code and the like.

Color tunable multifunctional nanophosphor, synthesis method thereof, and polymer composite including the nanophosphor

The present invention relates to a nanophosphor and a synthesis method thereof, and provides a nanophosphor comprising a first compound of Formula 1, wherein the first compound is fluoride-based one which is co-doped with Ceand Tb.NaGdMF:Ce,Tb&#x2003;&#x2003;(1) In the Formula 1, descriptions on the p, q, r and M are overlapped with what was described in the detailed description of the present invention, so their concrete description are omitted. The nanophosphor has good light emission intensity and magnetic property as well as up-conversion and/or down-conversion property able to emit visible light after excitation by infrared and/or ultraviolet rays, so can be applied to a contrast agent and a counterfeit prevention code.

Core/shell multifunctional magnetic nanophosphor having core/shell structure and synthetic method thereof

The present disclosure relates to a method for preparing a silicate phosphor and the silicate phosphor. The method includes (1) a hydrothermal treatment step of obtaining a layered silicate substituted with a rare-earth metal by hydrothermally treating an aqueous solution as a reaction solution, the solution containing rare-earth metal ions, NaOH and silica, and (2) a calcinating step of forming a crystalline silicate by calcinating the layered silicate substituted with the rare-earth metal. According to the method for preparing the silicate phosphor, the silicate phosphors, which can be used as phosphors for LEDs in the aspects of high covalent character, high luminescent intensity and stability at high temperature, may be prepared by a simplified, economic process. Also, the silicate phosphors may selectively emit red, green or blue light by virtue of the substitution of a silicon position with rare-earth metals of various types.

Method for preparing silicate phosphor and the silicate phosphor

A superparamagnetic nanoparticle is comprised of superparamagnetic nanocrystals less than 20 nm in size, and molecules having containing 3 to 5 carboxyl groups, wherein the molecules bond to surfaces of the superparamagnetic nanocrystals. A method for producing superparamagnetic nanoparticles includes preparing an alkaline solution with pH 10 to 14, producing a mixture in which molecules containing 3 to 5 carboxyl groups, a divalent transition metal and ferric precursors are dissolved, and adding the mixture into the alkaline solution.

Recyclable superparamagnetic nanoparticles and method for producing the same

An environment-friendly porous bead-satellite nanoparticles composite which has excellent recovery and repeated usage performance and can be used as a catalyst, an antiviral agent, or an antimicrobial, and a fabrication method thereof are provided. The porous bead-satellite nanoparticles composite includes a porous bead, a molecule having a first end coupled to the surface of the porous bead and including a functional group at a second end, and satellite nanoparticles coupled to the functional group, wherein the porous bead may have a core-shell structure including a cluster core of nanoparticles and a porous bead shell covering the cluster core.

Recyclable porous bead&#x2014;satellite nanoparticle composite and fabrication method thereof

Disclosed are a method for detecting a biomolecule including: immobilizing a nucleic acid aptamer capable of specifically binding to a biomolecule to be detected on the surface of a bead on which fluorophores are arranged; hybridizing the nucleic acid aptamer with a guard nucleic acid (g-nucleic acid) labeled with a quencher to quench fluorescence; and reacting a sample including the biomolecule to be detected with the nucleic acid aptamer and detecting a fluorescence signal emitted as the biomolecule binds with the nucleic acid aptamer and the g-nucleic acid labeled with the quencher is separated, and a device for detecting a biomolecule for conducting the detection method. The present disclosure allows for effective, convenient and fast detection of the biomolecule to be detected, enables quantitative analysis, and enables detection of even a trace amount of sample.

Device and method for detecting biomolecule

The present invention relates to a composite bead and a fabrication method thereof, and particularly, to a porous composite bead comprising superparamagnetic cluster and nanoparticles, such as light-emitting nanoparticles, magnetic nanoparticles, metallic nanoparticles, metal oxide nanoparticles and the like, and a fabrication method thereof.

Superparamagnetic cluster-nano particles-porous composite bead and fabrication method thereof

There is provided an organic-inorganic composite material containing a single nanoparticle therein, which is prepared by individually dispersing hydrophilic inorganic nanoparticles having a uniform particle size and conjugating biodegradable polymers to the surface of the nanoparticle, and a method of preparing the same. More particularly, the preparation method of the present invention comprises the following steps: 1) preparing hydrophilic nanoparticles by conjugating organic substances having a thiol group and a hydrophilic amine group to the surface of a core or a core/shell inorganic nanoparticle protected with a surfactant through a metal-thiolate (M-S) bond between them; 2) adjusting the concentration of the hydrophilic nanoparticles prepared in step 1) to 2&#xd7;10M or less and treating them in a sonication bath to prepare individually dispersed nanoparticles in the form of a single particle; and 3) conjugating biopolymers to the nanoparticle individually dispersed in step 2) through the formation of an amide bond between them under treatment in a sonication bath. The organic-inorganic composite material of the present invention exhibits high efficient photoluminescence and photostability as well as excellent chemical stability, dispersibility in water, biocompatibility and targetibility. Thus, it can be effectively used as a raw material for bioimaging or film coating.

Method of preparing single nanoparticle containing organic-inorganic composite material

In a metal oxide nanoparticle and a synthetic method thereof, and in particular to maghemite (&#x3b3;-FeO) nanoparticles usable as a superhigh density magnetic recording substance by having good shape anisotropy and magnetic characteristics, hematite (&#x3b1;-FeO) nanoparticles usable as a precursor to the maghemite or a catalyst, maghemite and hematite-mixed nanoparticles and a synthetic method thereof, the method for synthesizing metal oxide nanoparticles includes forming a reverse micelle solution by adding distilled water, a surfactant and a solvent to metallic salt not less than trivalent, precipitating and separating gel type amorphous metal oxide particles by adding proton scavenger to the reverse micelle solution; adjusting a molar ratio of metal oxide to the surfactant by washing the gel type amorphous metal oxide particles with a polar solvent; and crystallizing metal oxide nanoparticles through heating or reflux after dispersing the gel type amorphous metal oxide particles in a non-polar solvent having a high boiling point.

Shape anisotropic metal oxide nanoparticles and synthetic method thereof

The invention comprises an organotitanium precursor formed from a &bgr;-ketoester and a titanium glycolate, and dimer precursors formed from a reaction of the above organotitanium precursor with alcohol, which are used as sources of titanium dioxide for metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD).

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