Polymers in Medicine

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Polymers in Medicine

2017, vol. 47, nr 2, July-December, p. 91–100

doi: 10.17219/pim/81450

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Light-cured dimethacrylate dental restorative composites under a prism of annihilating positrons

Olha Shpotyuk1,A,B,C,D,F, Adam Ingram2,B,C,E, Oleh Shpotyuk3,C,E,F, Elvira Bezvushko1,A,C,E,F

1 Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Ukraine

2 Department of Physics, Opole University of Technology, Poland

3 Institute of Physics, Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa, Poland

Abstract

Background. Breakthrough resolutions in current biopolymer engineering rely on reliable diagnostics of atomic-deficient spaces over the finest sub-nanometer length scales. One such diagnostic is positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy, which probes space-time continuum relationships for the interaction between electrons and their antiparticle (positrons) in structural entities like free-volume defects, vacancies, vacancy-like clusters, interfacial voids and pores, etc.
Objectives. This paper is intended to highlight the possibilities of positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy as an informative instrumentation tool to parameterize free-volume evolution in light-cured dimethacrylate dental restorative composites exemplified by Charisma® (Heraeus Kulzer GmbH, Hanau, Germany) and Dipol® (Oksomat-AN Ltd, Kyiv, Ukraine).
Material and Methods. The subjects of the study were the commercially available dimethacrylate-type dental restorative composites Charisma® and Dipol®. The analysis used a fast-fast coincidence system of 230 ps resolution based on 2 photomultiplier tubes coupled to BaF2 scintillator detectors and ORTEC® (ORTEC, Oak Ridge, USA) electronics to register lifetime spectra in normal-measurement statistics evolving ~1 million coincidences.
Results. The annihilation process in both composites is identified as mixed positron-Ps (positronium) trapping, where ortho-Ps decaying is caused entirely by free-volume holes in the polymer matrix, and the 2nd component is defined mainly by interfacial free-volume holes between filler nanoparticles and the surrounding polymer. The most appropriate model-independent estimation of photopolymerization volumetric shrinkage in dental restorative composites can be done using averaged positron annihilation lifetime. Partiallyconstrained x4-term analysis of lifetime spectra is less efficient, giving greater scatter of variance with an additional artifact of fixed shortest lifetime allowing unresolved mixing in the 2nd component. A meaningful phenomenological description of transformations in Ps and positron-trapping sites under light curing, which occurs more efficiently in Charisma® than in Dipol® nanocomposites, can be developed at the basis of a semi-empirical model exploring a x3-x2-coupling decomposition algorithm.
Conclusion. A deep understanding of void-evolution processes in dimethacrylate dental composites employing positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy makes it possible to diagnose, characterize and engineer novel biomaterials for advanced use in medical practice.

Key words

positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy, dental restorative composites, light curing, dimethacrylate

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