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Polymerization contraction of light-cured composite resins containing silica/polymethylmethacrylate bonded microstructured networks. 2005

A Pefferkorn, and Y Haïkel, and E Pefferkorn

Institut Charles Sadron (CNRS), 6 rue Boussingault, 67083 Strasbourg cedex, France.

The adsorption of methylmethacrylate polymer at silica/methylmethacrylate interfaces was determined to provide microstructured networks whose structural characteristics were determined to be controlled by the amount of polymer initially supplied to the system. First, the microstructure was investigated by determining as a function of the amount of polymer (i) the shrinking rate due to evaporation of the methylmethacrylate monomer, (ii) the rate of sedimentation of the silica/polymer complexes in the methylmethacrylate monomer, and (iii) the height of the sediment in the long term. These different characteristics were found to be strongly correlated. Second, the sedimentation characteristics were determined as a function of the amount of polymer initially supplied to the dispersion of the same silica/polymer system in the ethylene glycol dimethacrylate monomer. Then the rate of the polymerization contraction during light-curing of the resin was determined for the sediment recovered after centrifugation. The slowest polymerization contraction and the smallest contraction were obtained with the filler/polymer/resin system composed of aggregates of medium porosity and size.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008027	Light	That portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in the visible, ultraviolet, and infrared range.	Light, Visible,Photoradiation,Radiation, Visible,Visible Radiation,Photoradiations,Radiations, Visible,Visible Light,Visible Radiations
D008689	Methacrylates	Acrylic acids or acrylates which are substituted in the C-2 position with a methyl group.	Methacrylate
D011108	Polymers	Compounds formed by the joining of smaller, usually repeating, units linked by covalent bonds. These compounds often form large macromolecules (e.g., BIOPOLYMERS; PLASTICS).	Polymer
D003188	Composite Resins	Synthetic resins, containing an inert filler, that are widely used in dentistry.	Composite Resin,Resin, Composite,Resins, Composite
D000327	Adsorption	The adhesion of gases, liquids, or dissolved solids onto a surface. It includes adsorptive phenomena of bacteria and viruses onto surfaces as well. ABSORPTION into the substance may follow but not necessarily.	Adsorptions
D012822	Silicon Dioxide	Transparent, tasteless crystals found in nature as agate, amethyst, chalcedony, cristobalite, flint, sand, QUARTZ, and tridymite. The compound is insoluble in water or acids except hydrofluoric acid.	Silica,Aerosil,Aerosil 380,Cristobalite,Quso G-32,Quso G32,Tridymite,380, Aerosil,Dioxide, Silicon,G32, Quso,Quso G 32
D016062	Porosity	Condition of having pores or open spaces. This often refers to bones, bone implants, or bone cements, but can refer to the porous state of any solid substance.	Porosities
D019904	Polymethyl Methacrylate	Polymerized methyl methacrylate monomers which are used as sheets, moulding, extrusion powders, surface coating resins, emulsion polymers, fibers, inks, and films (From International Labor Organization, 1983). This material is also used in tooth implants, bone cements, and hard corneal contact lenses.	PMMA,Polymethylmethacrylate,Acron,Acrylic Bone Cement,CMW Bone Cement,Implast,Kallocryl K,Lucite,Methyl Acrylic Plastic,Palacos R,Palavit,Perspex,Plexiglas,Plexiglass,Poly(methyl methacrylate),Polymethyl Methacrylate, Isostatic,Polymethyl Methacrylate, Simplex Opaque,Polymethyl Methacrylate, Surgical Simplex Bone Cement, Ammonium Salt,Polymethyl Methacrylate, Surgical Simplex P,Polymethyl Methacrylate, Syndiostatic,Polymethylmetacrylate,Sol,Superacryl,Isostatic Polymethyl Methacrylate,Methacrylate, Polymethyl,Methacrylate, Syndiostatic Polymethyl,Syndiostatic Polymethyl Methacrylate