High Modulus Dental Nanocomposites

When materials scientists in dentistry turn to usenanofiller in composites because of their superbproperties, rather than microfiller in dentalrestorations, they are also facing a series of newchallenges. This book reviews dental materials thatare currently used in the industry. It presents themethods of fabricating a type of novel high elasticmodulus dental resin nanocomposites, and investigatestheir mechanical properties including thevisco-elastic properties associated with fillerloading and coupling agents by nanoindentation. Keyfeatures include: Proposes a type of novel resincomposites in the applications of dental laminatestructures; Details on how to fabricate this dentalnanocomposites, how to measure their mechanicalproperties by nanoindentation, and how to predict theelastic modulus using several models; Discussion ofvisco-elastic properties of resin nanocomposites andanalysis of their behaviors using a new VEP model.The properties of dental resin nanocomposites and themodeling/testing methodology presented in this bookare not only applicable to dental composites, butalso to general particulate-filled polymer compositesas well.