Polymer Composites with Reinforcement for Dental Applications
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2025 | Viewed by 118
Special Issue Editors
Interests: temporomandibular disorders; sleep medicine; dental materials; dental biomaterials
Interests: electrospinning fibers; nanoparticles; biomaterials; sonocoating
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Current recommendations for minimally invasive dentistry place great demands on dentistry materials. One approach to creating fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites is mixing the composite base with nanometric or micrometric electrospun fibers. Electrospun nano- and microfibers possess many functional properties including a high aspect ratio and molecular orientation, large specific surface area, small pore size, and excellent mechanical performance. Additionally, they can be combined with various nanoparticles (antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral), enhancing the performance of future composites in medical field applications, in particular.
This Special Issue aims to highlight progress in dental material science. The creation of new materials or modification of present materials aims to improve their mechanical, physical, or microbiological properties. However, this Special Issue is not limited to the above topics and will consider publishing all studies connected with novel materials and their application in dentistry.
Prof. Dr. Jolanta Kostrzewa-Janicka
Dr. Julia Higuchi
Dr. Marcin Szerszeń
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- dental materials
- dental composites
- dental polymers
- biomaterials
- nanotechnology in dentistry
- biocompatibility
- non-shrinking composite materials
- microbiology
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