Introduction: The rehabilitation of teeth by means of ceramic indirect restorations has been widely performed. Previous studies has shown the effectiveness of silane coupling agents on improving the bond strength of the adhesion of resin cements to ceramics; however, some studies question the use of silane. Objective: To evaluate the effect of silane application on the microtensile bond strengt...

Surface chemistry is a major factor that determines the wettability of materials, and devising broadly applicable coating strategies afford tunable selective surface properties required for next-generation materials remains challenge. Herein, we report fluorinated metal–organic coatings display water-wetting oil-repelling characteristics, wetting phenomenon different from responsive induced by ...

Thermocycling is widely used to age dental composites but with very different results from one study another, even apparent similar conditions. This aims at understanding better the relative damaging speed of matrix and fillers, based on theoretical models. Eight formulations an experimental material were produced. The same organic was silanated barium glass particles added as fillers filler ra...

Ti implants are highly biocompatible and allow orderly bone growth but, unfortunately, in the first five years after implantation, 5–10% of them fail due to poor osseointegration presence bacterial infections prosthesis. Silver nanoparticles have been described damage cell via prolonged release Ag+ ions as a mode action when immobilized on surface. In this work, two routes synthetize silver pro...

Recently, osmotic distillation (OD) has emerged as an alternative process for the concentration and purification of heat sensitive components. However, OD performance was severely affected by membrane fouling wetting, which could be minimized through surface roughness creation energy modification. This study incorporated silica nanoparticles coated tridecafluro-1,1,2,2-tetrahydrooctyl-1-trietho...