A General Strategy for Efficiently Constructing Multifunctional Cluster Fillers Using a Three-Fluid Nozzle Spray Drying Technique for Dental Restoration

Dan-Lei Yang , Dan Wang , Hao Niu , Rui-Li Wang , Mei Liu , Fei-Min Zhang , Jie-Xin Wang , Mei-Fang Zhu

Engineering ›› 2022, Vol. 8 ›› Issue (1) : 138 -147.

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Engineering ›› 2022, Vol. 8 ›› Issue (1) : 138 -147. DOI: 10.1016/j.eng.2021.08.001
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A General Strategy for Efficiently Constructing Multifunctional Cluster Fillers Using a Three-Fluid Nozzle Spray Drying Technique for Dental Restoration

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Multifunctional fillers are greatly required for dental resin composites (DRCs). In this work, a spray dryer with a three-fluid nozzle was applied for the first time to construct high-performance complex nanoparticle clusters (CNCs) consisting of different functional nanofillers for dental restoration. The application of a three-fluid nozzle can effectively avoid the aggregation of different nanoparticles with opposite zeta potentials before the spray drying process in order to construct regularly shaped CNCs. For a SiO2–ZrO2 binary system, the SiO2–ZrO2 CNCs constructed using a three-fluid nozzle maintained their excellent mechanical properties ((133.3 ± 4.7) MPa, (8.8 ± 0.5) GPa, (371.1 ± 13.3) MPa, and (64.5 ± 0.7) HV for flexural strength, flexural modulus, compressive strength, and hardness of DRCs, respectively), despite the introduction of ZrO2 nanoparticles, whereas their counterparts constructed using a two-fluid nozzle showed significantly decreased mechanical properties. Furthermore, heat treatment of the SiO2–ZrO2 CNCs significantly improved the mechanical properties and radiopacity of the DRCs. The DRCs containing over 10% mass fraction ZrO2 nanoparticles can meet the requirement for radiopaque fillers. More importantly, this method can be expanded to ternary or quaternary systems. DRCs filled with SiO2–ZrO2–ZnO CNCs with a ratio of 56:10:4 displayed high antibacterial activity (antibacterial ratio > 99%) in addition to excellent mechanical properties and radiopacity. Thus, the three-fluid nozzle spray drying technique holds great potential for the efficient construction of multifunctional cluster fillers for DRCs.

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Multifunctional cluster fillers / Three-fluid nozzle spray drying / Mechanical properties / Antibacterial activity / Radiopacity / Dental resin composites

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Dan-Lei Yang, Dan Wang, Hao Niu, Rui-Li Wang, Mei Liu, Fei-Min Zhang, Jie-Xin Wang, Mei-Fang Zhu. A General Strategy for Efficiently Constructing Multifunctional Cluster Fillers Using a Three-Fluid Nozzle Spray Drying Technique for Dental Restoration. Engineering, 2022, 8(1): 138-147 DOI:10.1016/j.eng.2021.08.001

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