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Visible Light Curable Restorative Composites for Dental Applications Based on Epoxy Monomer

A cationic photo-curable cycloaliphatic epoxy resin has been investigated as reactive monomer in blue light crosslinking process. We have demonstrated that camphorquinone is able to abstract labile hydrogen from the epoxy monomer, giving rise to the formation of carbon-centered radicals that are oxi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Vitale, Alessandra, Sangermano, Marco, Bongiovanni, Roberta, Burtscher, Peter, Moszner, Norbert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5453123/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28788474
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma7010554
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Sumario:A cationic photo-curable cycloaliphatic epoxy resin has been investigated as reactive monomer in blue light crosslinking process. We have demonstrated that camphorquinone is able to abstract labile hydrogen from the epoxy monomer, giving rise to the formation of carbon-centered radicals that are oxidized by the onium salt; a complete epoxy group conversion was reached after 50 s of irradiation. The presence of water up to 1 wt% was tolerated without any important detrimental effect on the kinetics of light-curing. The presence of the inorganic filler up to 65 wt% did not significantly influence the curing process.