A biomedical materials company has created a line of resins that could boost the toughness of composites while reducing volumetric shrinkage and increasing conversion. Researchers presented details ...

While shrinkage isn't much of a problem when printing small objects, anything bigger could buckle or crack as the composite dries. "If you could avoid shrinkage, you could keep scaling up, maybe ...

Materials that shrink when heated Date: February 10, 2012 ... An example of such a composite is Invar, an iron-nickel alloy with a uniquely low coefficient of thermal expansion.

Restorative dentistry aims to bring damaged dentition back to acceptable functional and aesthetic levels (see Figure 1). Composite materials for dental fillings are replacing amalgam alloys due to ...

Materials and equipment company Shofu Dental has launched a hybrid composite formulated to minimize polymerization shrinkage and shrinkage stress for all classes of restorations. Practice Specialties ...

While shrinkage isn’t much of a problem when printing small objects, anything bigger could buckle or crack as the composite dries. “If you could avoid shrinkage, you could keep scaling up, maybe to ...

While shrinkage isn’t much of a problem when printing small objects, anything bigger could buckle or crack as the composite dries. “If you could avoid shrinkage, you could keep scaling up ...