흐름 장-흐름 분획기를 이용한 나노물질의 분리

Recently, the consumption of nanomaterials has been significantly increased in both industrial and commercial sectors, as a result of steady advancement in the nano-technologies. This ubiquitous use of nanomaterials has brought up the concern that their exposure to environments may cause detrimental effects on human health as well as natural ecosystems, and it is required to characterize their behavior in various environmental media and to evaluate their ecotoxicity. For the sake of accomplishing those assessments, the development of methods to effectively separate them from diverse media and to quantify their properties should be requisitely accompanied. Among a number of separation techniques developed so far, this study focuses on Field-Flow Fractionation (FFF) because of its strengths, such as relatively less disturbance of samples and simple pretreatment, and we review overseas and domestic literatures on the separation of nanomaterials using the FFF technique. In particular, researches with Flow Field-Flow Fractionation (FlFFF) are highlighted due to its most frequent application among FFF techniques. The basic principle of the FlFFF is briefly introduced and the studies conducted so far are classified and scrutinized based on the sort of target nanomaterials for the purpose of furnishing practical data and information for the researchers struggling in this field. The literature review suggests that the operational conditions, such as pretreatment, selection of membrane and carrier solution, and rate (velocity) of each flow, should be optimized in order to effectively separate them from various matrices using the FFF technique. Moreover, it seems to be a prerequisite to couple or hyphenate with several detectors and analyzers for quantification of their properties after their separation using the FFF. However, its application has been restricted regarding the types of target nanomaterials and environmental media. Furthermore, domestic literature data on both separation and characterization of nanomaterials are extremely limited. Taking into account the overwhelmingly increasing consumption of nanomaterials, the efforts for the area seem to be greatly urgent. 최근 들어 나노기술의 발전에 따라 다양한 산업 및 상업분야에서 나노물질의 사용이 급증하고 있다. 이러한 나노물질이 환경에 유출되어 사람의 건강 및 생태계에 악영향을 줄 수 있다는 문제가 지속적으로 제기되어 왔다. 이에 따라 다양한 환경매질 내에서 나노물질의 거동특성 및 생독성 등에 대한 평가들이 요구되어진다. 이러한 평가들이 진행되기 위해서 필연적으로 다양한 매체 내에서 존재하는 나노물질을 효과적으로 분리하고 이들의 특성을 정량화하는 기술들이 수반되어야 한다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 나노물질의 분리기술들 중 시료의 교란이 비교적