Consideration on functional surface design by depositing various materials with specific pattern

Surface reproducibility of resin die materials with various impression materials.

Surface reproduction was evaluated for epoxy resin and polyether resin dies as well as for gypsum dies by observing the changes in roughness. Significant differences were found by the interaction of the impression and the dies. The resin dies generally showed better results than the gypsum dies when the elastomeric impressions were used. Especially the resin dies were both excellent in surface ...

Surface Patterning of Functional Ceramics: A Materials Design

Design of Functional Protein Materials Self-Assembled on Solid-Phase Surface

For the construction of intelligent materials using protein molecules, it is essential to assemble protein molecules stably on a solid-phase surface in a highly oriented manner. We have designed novel proteins consist of hydrophobic peptide sequence as a self-assembled structural unit and molecular recognition peptide as a functional unit. These designed proteins were expressed in E. coli and p...

Bacteria adhesion to the surface of various prosthetics materials.

Increased life span of humans and dynamic development of prosthetic treatment has caused that increased number of people are using removable dentures for longer periods of time. The materials used to make those prosthesis are becoming a potential pathogen factor for oral mucosa being in contact with this material. Prosthetic stomatopathy occurs in 20% to 70% of the patients who are using remova...

Materials design and development of functional materials for industry.

It is now well recognized that we are witnessing a golden age of innovation with novel materials, with discoveries that are important for both basic science and industry. With the development of theory along with computing power, quantum materials design-the synthesis of materials with the desired properties in a controlled way via materials engineering on the atomic scale-is becoming a major c...