Flame retardants, such as inorganic fillers or halogenated resins, are incorporated into composites either as additives or reactive materials. In order to improve processability and mechanical properties, as well as reduce smoke toxicity, a method is being developed to introduce highly effective, inexpensive flame retardant materials into thermoset resins. Superabsorbent polymers (SAP) can be l...

Frankincense and myrrh are without a doubt the worlds two most important resins. Although other resins, such as pine, copal, styrax, and dragon blood have played important roles in ethnobotanical medicine, none have been as widely distributed and universally utilized, as economically important, or so highly regarded. This paper presents an overview of these valuable trees and the history, cultu...

This paper establishes an infrared spectral identification key for five natural resins (shellac, sandarac, mastic, copal and rosin) based on their absorbance band positions. These resins may be identified when used in mixtures, such as furniture finishes, at concentrations as low as 1%. Computer methods of deconvolution and spectral subtraction are used to augment this process. The method was v...

introdouction: bleaching has become a common treatment for improving the appearance of natural teeth. however, the need to protect dental restorations from bleaching agent exposure is inevitable, as these agents may change the color of restorative materials by oxidation. filtek p90 composite resin has recently been introduced with the aim of decreasing polymerization shrinkage. the purpose of t...

UNLABELLED Indirect resin composites are generally regarded to have better color stability than direct resin composites since they possess higher conversion degree. OBJECTIVE The present study aimed at comparing the changes in color (ΔE) and color coordinates (ΔL, Δa and Δb) of one direct (Estelite Sigma: 16 shades) and 2 indirect resin composites (BelleGlass NG: 16 shades; Sinfony: 26 shades...

Chelating resins based on polyacrylonitrile and diethylenetriamine (PAN-DTA) wereprepared through the simple reaction of polyacrylonitrile with various volume percents ofdiethylenetriamine (DTA), (25, 50, 75 and 100). The prepared resins were applied to removeheavy metal ions such as Cu(II), Zn(II) and Cd(II) from aqueous solutions. The sorptionbehaviors of the resins for these metal ions were ...

Recently, some fluid or pour resins have been introduced to simplify the processing of dentures. However, because of the presence of relatively high residual monomer, the mechanical properties of these resins are inferior to those of heat cured resins.1,2) The purpose of the present investigation is to measure the quantities of residual monomer and to investigate the effect of the residual mono...

Incorporating resins in blood culture media can effectively reduce the activities of several antibiotics. It was shown that the activities of some generally used antibiotics decreased by 80 to 90% within 2 h in Bactec Plus Aerobic/F resin-containing culture medium. Bactec vials containing resins were still found to be positive for bacteria when antibiotics were present. The addition of beta-lac...

Against a backdrop of increasing pressure globally to enhance the quality teacher preparation, and corresponding push ‘measure’ this performatively, we present context-specific framework for identifying initial education (ITE). The derives from project involving all Scottish ITE providers. It adopts vernacular globalisation perspective, drawing on international literature local knowledge create...