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Ultra-small-Angle X-ray Scattering - X-ray Photon-Correlation Spectroscopy Studies of Incipient Structural Changes in Amorphous Calcium Phosphate Based Dental Composites

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Author(s)

Fan Zhang, Andrew J. Allen, Lyle E. Levine, Laura Espinal, Joseph M. Antonucci, Drago Skrtic, Justin N. O'Donnell, Jan Ilavsky

Abstract

The local structural changes in amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) based dental composites were studied upon heating using both static, bulk measurement techniques and recently developed ultra-small angle X-ray scattering - X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (USAXS-XPCS), which permits a dynamical approach. While results from static measurements do not show clear signs of structural change, USAXS-XPCS results reveal unambiguous evidence for local structural variations on a similar time scale to that of water loss in the ACP fillers. A thermal-expansion based simulation indicates that thermal behavior alone does not account for the observed dynamics. Instead, the results suggest that changes in the bound water content of ACP affect the composite morphology due to changes in ACP structure.
Citation
ACTA Materialia
Volume
100A

Keywords

coherent small-angle X-ray scattering, X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy, amorphous calcium phosphate, polymer dental composites, non-equilibrium dynamics, microstructure characterization

Citation

Zhang, F. , Allen, A. , Levine, L. , Espinal, L. , Antonucci, J. , Skrtic, D. , O'Donnell, J. and Ilavsky, J. (2012), Ultra-small-Angle X-ray Scattering – X-ray Photon-Correlation Spectroscopy Studies of Incipient Structural Changes in Amorphous Calcium Phosphate Based Dental Composites, ACTA Materialia (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created February 27, 2012, Updated October 12, 2021