Journal
ACS BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
Volume 2, Issue 3, Pages 344-348Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.5b00440
Keywords
clear overlay appliances; urushiol; nanofilm; intrinsic hydrophobicity; durability
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- Bio & Medical Technology Development Program of the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korean Government [2012M3A9C6050104]
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korean Government Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning [2013R1A1A1076126]
- Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) - Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning [NRF-2014R1A1A1038263]
- grant of the Korea Health Technology R&D Project through the Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) - Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea [HI14C-3266, HI15C-1653]
- Cooperative Research Program for Agriculture Science & Technology Development Rural Development Administration, Republic of Korea [PJ00998601]
- Chung-Ang University Excellent Student Scholarship
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2013R1A1A1076126] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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With increased esthetic needs, orthodontics is an indispensable medical treatment in dentistry, and transparent clear overlay appliances (COAs) are in general use to fix teeth. However, COAs are easily worn out because of the lack of durability. Here, we applied a nanofilm onto COAs using urushiol (U), a durable coating material from plant via a layer-by-layer assembly technique. In particular, polymerized urushiol (PU) provided COAs with higher mechanical strength in the large-scale assessment, lower cytotoxicity, and intrinsic hydrophobicity for antimicrobial use. In this report, we inceptively attempted to functionalize COAs with nanofilm for advanced biomedical use.
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