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Comparative study of free-volume changes in light-cured (dimeth)acrylate-type dental resin composites affected to artificial aging in dry-air and water-immersed mode. APPLIED NANOSCIENCE 2022. [DOI: 10.1007/s13204-021-01681-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Light-curing effects in acrylic-type dental nanocomposites probed by annihilating positrons: the case of loosely monolith Dipol® restoratives. APPLIED NANOSCIENCE 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s13204-020-01251-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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AbstractThe possibility of application of positron annihilation lifetime (PAL) spectroscopy to commercially available dimethacrylate-based dental restorative composites Dipol® (Oksomat-AN Ltd, Ukraine) subjected to photopolymerization due to light curing is analyzed. The governing annihilation process in these composites is identified as mixed positron (e+)-positronium (Ps) trapping, where Ps decaying is caused entirely by input from free-volume holes in polymer matrix superimposed on free e+-trapping contribution from interfacial free-volume holes between filler nanoparticles and surrounded polymer matrix. Photopolymerization shrinkage is revealed through decrease in the average lifetime of annihilating positrons due to opposite changes in Ps-decaying and e+-trapping channels. The growing light-activated polymerization is characteristic of both intensities related to the second and third components in the unconstrained ×3-term decomposed PAL spectra, accompanied by decrease in the corresponding lifetimes. This process resulted in enhanced trapping rate in the defects and depressed fractional free-volume saturation with light curing. Light exposure causes smaller voids in composites owing to free-volume fragmentation in Ps- and e+-trapping sites. The microstructure scenario for these transformations includes photo-induced cross-linking of structural chains in the polymer matrix, followed by conversion of o-Ps traps in interfacial free-volume voids near agglomerated filler nanoparticles. A meaningful description of this process is developed on the basis of the semi-empirical model exploring the ×3– ×2-coupling decomposition algorithm.
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Shpotyuk O, Ingram A, Shpotyuk O, Slobodzyan D, Cebulski J, Smolar N. Light-curing effects in acrylic-type dental nanocomposites probed by annihilating positrons: the case of densely monolith ЭCTA-3® restoratives. APPLIED NANOSCIENCE 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s13204-020-01423-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Shpotyuk O, Ingram A, Shpotyuk O. Photopolymerization shrinkage in dimethacrylate-based dental restorative composites probed by means of positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy. POLYMER 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2020.122485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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