High Modulus Dental Nanocomposites: High Elastic Modulus Nanopowder Reinforced ResinComposites For Dental Applications

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.

Dr. Yijun Wang, Materials Scientist at Pixelligent Tech. LLC. Heis working on the synthesis and capping of semiconductornanoparticles. He received his BS and ME degree in MaterialsEngineering from Nanjing University, China. He earned his Ph.D.degree in Materials Science and Engineering at the University ofMaryland, College Park in 2007.