Dental Materials
Volume 24, Issue 12 , Pages 1640-1646 , December 2008

Improved orthodontic stainless steel wires coated with inorganic fullerene-like nanoparticles of WS2 impregnated in electroless nickel–phosphorous film

  • M. Redlich

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University, P.O. Box 12272, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +972 26776184; fax: +972 2 6427613.
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  • A. Katz

      Affiliations

    • Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University, P.O. Box 12272, Jerusalem 91120, Israel
    • Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
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  • L. Rapoport

      Affiliations

    • Department of Science, Holon Academic Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel
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  • H.D. Wagner

      Affiliations

    • Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
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  • Y. Feldman

      Affiliations

    • Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
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  • R. Tenne

      Affiliations

    • Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel

Received 7 January 2008 ,Accepted 25 March 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2008.03.030

Dental Materials
Volume 24, Issue 12 , Pages 1640-1646 , December 2008

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