PURPOSE This in vitro study intended to investigate the mechanical and thermal characteristics of Valplast, and of polymethyl methacrylate denture base resin in which different esthetic fibers (E-glass, nylon 6 or nylon 6.6) were added. MATERIALS AND METHODS FIVE GROUPS WERE FORMED: control (PMMA), PMMA-E glass, PMMA-nylon 6, PMMA-nylon 6.6 and Valplast resin. For the transverse strength test...

Abstract Nylon composites are of evolving interest due to their good strength, toughness, and low coefficient friction. Various fillers like micro- nanoparticulates metals metal compounds were used enhance the mechanical tribological properties nylons for many years by researchers. In this paper, an overall understanding composites, filler materials, especially particulate application areas pol...

The recently developed evolutionary algorithm USPEX proved to be a tool that enables accurate and reliable prediction of structures. Here we extend this method to predict the crystal structure of polymers by constrained evolutionary search, where each monomeric unit is treated as a building block with fixed connectivity. This greatly reduces the search space and allows the initial structure gen...

The potential effectiveness of a silver nylon (SN) fabric as an antimicrobial agent was evaluated in a series of in vitro experiments. The results indicated that silver ions from the SN fabric penetrated 2 mm of agar and killed a challenge of 6.9 X 10(7) Pseudomonas aeruginosa, 4.1 X 10(7) Staphylococcus aureus, and 1.4 X 10(7) Candida albicans organisms per cm2 of SN fabric after 24 h of incub...

Anionic reactive dyes used to dye nylon suffer from failures due to the poor efficiency caused by low degree of exhaustion and fixation. From the previous work , the dyeing efficiency of Procion Rubine XL on modified nylon was particularly week and hence offers the widest scope for an in depth investigation in to variables that effect the dyeing process. The variables dyeing studies for this pr...