statement of problem: in order to increase the performance of glass ionomer cement, it is reinforced with metal powders, short fibers, bioceramics and other materials. fluoroapatite (ca10 (po4 )6 f2 ) is found in dental enamel and is usually used in dental materials due to its good chemical and physical properties. objectives: in this study, the effects of the addition of synthesized fluoroapat...

This paper reports on the role of phosphate-based glass (PBG) microspheres and their physicochemical properties including in vitro biological response to human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs). Solid porous were prepared via a flame spheroidisation process. The Mg content PBG formulations explored was reduced from 24 2 mol% with subsequent increase Ca content. A small quantity TiO2 (1 mol%) added...

We have conducted first-principles and classical molecular dynamics simulations of various compositions of strontium-containing phosphate glasses, to understand how strontium incorporation will change the glasses’ activity when implanted into the body (bioactivity). To perform the classical simulations, we have developed a new interatomic potential, which takes account of the polarizability of ...

The preparation of tellurite glasses with persistent luminescence by adding luminescent particles in the glass melt is reported. Compared to phosphate glasses, afterglow from low, indicating that more corrosive on than melt. However, as opposed no emission Eu3+ was detected photoluminescence spectra when crushed into powder. We show a confocal Raman microscope can be used evidence presence glas...

The photosensitivity of highly Er/Yb doped and undoped phosphate glass fibers is characterized under irradiation with intense pulsed 193 nm light from an ArF excimer laser through a phase mask. The ultraviolet photosensitivity of the active fibers is shown to be roughly half that of the passive fibers. We also demonstrate that the strong growth of the fiber Bragg grating reflectivity observed u...

A macroporous phosphate invert glass-ceramic (PIGC) was derived from the mother glass with a composition of 60CaO-30P2O5-3TiO27Na2O in mol%. The mother glass powders were coated on a polymer sponge skeleton and subsequently sintered at 850 C for 1 h through burning off the sponge, resulting in the preparation of macroporous PIGC. The resulting macroporous PIGC consists predominantly of tricalci...

1) Antimony (Sb) microelectrodes with tips of 2 to 5 micrometers in outside diameter were constructed, and their electromotive forces (EMF) were tested in response to the pH of several calibration buffers. The data were compared with those of glass pH electrodes. 2) Increasing ionic strength (I) caused a significant deviation in pH readings of the Sb-microelectrode (delta pHSb-Glass). The above...