Property Testing and Optimization in Novel Resin-Based Direct Restorative Materials
A Special Issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360) belonging to the section "Polymer Analysis and Characterization".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2026 | Viewed by 530
Editors
Interests: polymer-based materials; dental composites; spectroscopy; ATR-FTIR; dental adhesives
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: polymer-based materials; dental composites; spectroscopy; ATR-FTIR; Raman spectroscopy; dental adhesives
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue highlights how property testing can accelerate the design of next-generation resin-based direct restorative materials, from conventional and bulk-fill composites to emerging self-adhesive and smart systems. It welcomes studies that link composition–structure–property relationships to clinically meaningful outcomes, such as polymerization kinetics and degree of conversion, shrinkage stress, wear and fracture resistance, radiopacity, esthetics/color stability, and biocompatibility. Equally central are interfacial performance metrics such as bond strength, marginal adaptation, microleakage, and durability under thermal, mechanical, and hydrolytic aging. The optimization focus encourages data-driven chemical formulations and processing strategies (e.g., functional monomers, fillers, photoinitiators, curing protocols) to balance handling simplicity with long-term stability. This issue bridges laboratory screening, standardized testing, and clinical validation.
Prof. Dr. Mário Polido
Dr. António H. S. Delgado
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- resin-based materials
- resin composites
- dental adhesives
- dental composites
- dental adhesion
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