OBJECTIVES The purpose of this in vitro study was to evaluate the accuracy of working length (WL) determination of four electronic apex locators (EALs), namely, Root ZX (RZX), Elements diagnostic unit and apex locator (ELE), SybronEndo Mini Apex locator (MINI) and Propex pixi (PIXI) using Stainless steel (SS) and nickel-titanium (NiTi) hand files. The null hypothesis was that there was no diffe...

Hydroxyapatite (HAp) nanoparticles synthesized via microwave irradiation. Polypyrrole (PPy)/HAp nanocomposite was obtained using electropolymerization on nitinol (Ni) titanium (Ti) substrates. Fourier transform infrared was employed to characterize the nanocomposite formation. Electrochemical properties of the nanocomposite were investigated using polarization and electrochemical impedance spec...

First-principles calculations are presented for parent B2 phase and martensitic B19 and B190 phases in NiTi. The results indicate that both B19 and B190 are energetically more stable than the parent B2 phase. By means of ab initio density functional theory, the complete distortion–shuffle energy landscape associated with B2? B19 transformation in NiTi is then determined. In addition to accounti...

IJMDS ● www.ijmds.org ● January 2015; 4(1) 701 Review Article Single file niti-rotary systems Kumar SR, Gade V ABSTRACT The cleaning and shaping of root canals is a major step in root canal treatment procedure, which aims at removal of all the tissue debris from the root canal space while removing the inner layers of root canal dentin. With Nickel titanium (NiTi) rotary instruments this goal is...

In the actuation field, the most common shape memory alloy is quasi-equiatomic NiTi system, commercially known as Nitinol®. Ti-rich NiTi compounds show characteristic transformation temperatures higher than the room one and they can recover high values of deformation. Moreover, these intermetallic compounds are widely used since they exhibit high thermal and mechanical cycling stability. Other ...

On February 8, 2015 the Prime Minister has convened the first meeting of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) where Chief Ministers of all states and Lt. Governors of the union territories are expected to deliberate on major economic issues. The Prime Minister has also met eminent economists at NITI Aayog on February 6 to discuss about the economy and sought suggestions ...

The purpose of this study was to compare (a) forces generated during lateral compaction and (b) apical microleakage for nickel-titanium (NiTi) and stainless steel (SS) finger spreaders. Twenty-eight extracted human teeth were instrumented using a standardized rotary instrumentation technique. NiTi and SS #30 spreaders were used to obturate molar roots while the forces generated during obturatio...

The corrosion behavior of high stiffness NiTiCo shape memory alloys was systematically investigated in the present study including straight wires, wire formed stents, and laser cut stents. It was found that the corrosion behavior of NiTiCo alloys is comparable to that of binary NiTi. This is attributed to the small amount of cobalt used in the ternary alloy. Additionally, the corrosion resistan...

Due to a distinct nature of thermomechanical smart materials' reaction to applied loads, a revolutionary approach is needed to measure the hardness and to understand its size effect for pseudoelastic NiTi shape memory alloys (SMAs) during the solid-state phase transition. Spherical hardness is increased with depths during the phase transition in NiTi SMAs. This behaviour is contrary to the decr...