title: Resin composites reinforced by nanoscaled fibers or tubes for dental regeneration.
abstract: It has been stated clearly that nanofillers could make an enhancement on the mechanical performances of dental composites. In order to address current shortage of traditional dental composites, fillers in forms of nanofibers or nanotubes are broadly regarded as ideal candidates to greatly increase mechanical performances of dental composites with low content of fillers. In this review, the efforts using nanofibers and nanotubes to reinforce mechanical performances of dental composites, including polymeric nanofibers, metallic nanofibers or nanotubes, and inorganic nanofibers or nanotubes, as well as their researches related, are demonstrated in sequence. The first purpose of current paper was to confirm the enhancement of nanofibers or nanotubes' reinforcement on the mechanical performances of dental restorative composite. The second purpose was to make a general description about the reinforcement mechanism of nanofibers and nanotubes, especially, the impact of formation of interphase boundary interaction and nanofibers themselves on the advanced mechanical behaviors of the dental composites. By means of the formation of interface interaction and poststretching nanofibers, reinforced effect of dental composites by sorts of nanofibers/nanotubes has been successfully obtained.
authors: Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China.
authors: Xiaoming
authors: X
authors: Li
authors: Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China.
authors: Wei
authors: W
authors: Liu
authors: Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China.
authors: Lianwen
authors: L
authors: Sun
authors: College of Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA.
authors: Katerina E
authors: KE
authors: Aifantis
authors: Department of Orthopedics, Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510282, China.
authors: Bo
authors: B
authors: Yu
authors: Key Laboratory for Biomechanics and Mechanobiology of Ministry of Education, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China.
authors: Yubo
authors: Y
authors: Fan
authors: State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
authors: Qingling
authors: 0000-0003-1288-300X
authors: Q
authors: Feng
authors: State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
authors: Fuzhai
authors: F
authors: Cui
authors: Department of Biomedical Materials and Engineering, Graduate School of Dental Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-8586, Japan.
authors: Fumio
authors: F
authors: Watari
mesh_terms: D000180:Acrylic Resins / Q000737:chemistry*; D003188:Composite Resins / Q000737:chemistry*; D057139:Nanofibers / Q000737:chemistry*; D043942:Nanotubes / Q000737:chemistry*; D010316:Particle Size; D011140:Polyurethanes / Q000737:chemistry*; D012038:Regeneration
chemical_list: D000180:Acrylic Resins; C029012:Composite Dental Resin; D003188:Composite Resins; D011140:Polyurethanes