Dental Materials
Volume 28, Issue 2 , Pages 133-145 , February 2012

Nano-porous thermally sintered nano silica as novel fillers for dental composites

  • Mohammad Atai

      Affiliations

    • Iran Polymer and Petrochemical Institute (IPPI), P.O. Box 14965/115, Tehran, Iran
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +98 21 48662446; fax: +98 21 44580023.
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  • Ayoub Pahlavan

      Affiliations

    • Dental School, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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  • Niloofar Moin

      Affiliations

    • Dental School, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Received 12 January 2011 ,Revised 14 July 2011 ,Accepted 24 October 2011.

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doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2011.10.015

Dental Materials
Volume 28, Issue 2 , Pages 133-145 , February 2012