Abstract
With increased esthetic needs, orthodontics is an indispensable medical treatment in dentistry, and transparent clear overlay appliances (COAs) are in general use to fix teeth. However, COAs are easily worn out because of the lack of durability. Here, we applied a nanofilm onto COAs using urushiol (U), a durable coating material from plant via a layer-by-layer assembly technique. In particular, polymerized urushiol (PU) provided COAs with higher mechanical strength in the large-scale assessment, lower cytotoxicity, and intrinsic hydrophobicity for antimicrobial use. In this report, we inceptively attempted to functionalize COAs with nanofilm for advanced biomedical use.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 344-348 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering |
Volume | 2 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2016 Mar 14 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was supported by the Bio & Medical Technology Development Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Korean Government (Grant 2012M3A9C6050104) and supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF), funded by the Korean Government Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (Grant 2013R1A1A1076126) and supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (NRF-2014R1A1A1038263). Additionally, this research was also supported by a grant of the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI), funded by the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea (Grants HI14C-3266 and HI15C-1653). This work was also carried out with the support of Cooperative Research Program for Agriculture Science & Technology Development (Grant PJ00998601) Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea. This research was supported by the Chung-Ang University Excellent Student Scholarship in 2015. J.H. thanks Dr. K. Kwon for thoughtful help in this research.
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© 2016 American Chemical Society.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Biomaterials
- Biomedical Engineering