Original Article
  • Uniform Drop casting Deposition of Cu-BTC with Binary Solvent

  • Dongwon Seo*#, Daekyoung Seo*#, Jihoon Chung*†

  • *School of Mechanical Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology

  • 이종 용매 기반 드롭 캐스팅을 통한 커피링 억제 Cu-BTC 균일 박막 형성

  • 서동원*# · 서대경*# · 정지훈*†

  • This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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This Article

Correspondence to

  • Jihoon Chung

  • School of Mechanical Engineering, Kumoh National Institute of Technology

  • E-mail: jihoon@kumoh.ac.kr