OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the dynamic (storage) shear modulus and the static shear modulus of elasticity of packable and flowable composite resins and to investigate their development after initial photo-curing. METHODS Three pairs of a packable versus a flowable composite and a microfill composite resin were tested (Alert/Flow It, Filtek P60/Filtek Flow, Admira/Admi...

This paper is a definition of photo elicitation and a history of its development in anthropology and sociology. The view of photo elicitation in these disciplines, where the greatest number of photo elicitation studies have taken place, organizes photo elicitation studies by topic and by form. The paper also presents practical considerations from a frequent photo elicitation researcher and conc...

The paper offers a new approach to handling difficult parametric inverse problems in elasticity and thermo-elasticity, formulated as global optimization ones. The proposed strategy is composed of two phases. In the first, global phase, the stochastic hp-HGS algorithm recognizes the basins of attraction of various objective minima. In the second phase, the local objective minimizers are closer a...

in this paper, calcium stannate nanoparticles were synthesized by a fast and simple co-precipitation procedure. for casno3 preparation ammonia was used as precipitation agent. the effect of various surfactants such as cationic, anionic and neutral on the morphology of the products was investigated. by changing in ca(sal)2 as a new precursor different morphologies were obtained. ligand as a capp...

With direct laser writing micro structures can be manufactured by solidifying a photo resist when the beam triggers photochemical reaction in focal voxel. We have used to fabricate thermally actuated microgripper, which move its two cantilever like arms grip micro-objects. One consists thereby of strips with different coefficients thermal expansion such that both cantilevers bends towards each ...

Switchable materials in response to external stimuli serve as building blocks to construct microscale functionalized actuators and sensors. Azobenzene-modified liquid crystal (LC) polymeric networks, that combine liquid crystalline orientational order and elasticity, reversibly undergo conformational changes powered by light. We present a computational framework to describe photo-induced topogr...

Dimethacrylates are known to have good photoreactivity, but their radical polymerization usually leads to irregular, highly cross-linked, and brittle polymer networks with broad thermal polymer phase transitions. Here, the synthesis of monoand difunctional β-allyl sulfones is described, and those substances are introduced as potent addition−fragmentation chain transfer (AFCT) reagents leading t...