Advantages And Disadvantages Of Adhesives

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Due to stringent regulations regarding the emission of volatile organic compounds, there is a demand to develop fast setting solvent free resins. Light cured materials have many advantages over conventional chemically cured adhesives, including consistent handling characteristics, single paste application, and easy removal of excess material and extended working time.1 UV-curable adhesives appear to be ideal candidates since such liquid formulations contain no organic solvents and are readily transformed into solids by a short exposure to UV-radiation at ambient temperature. This feature, together with the resulting low consumption of energy and the high performance of the UV-cured materials, explains the increasing use of this environment-friendly …show more content…

Dual curable systems could effectively overcome the shortcomings of need for at least one transparent substrate and limited depth of cure. Other disadvantages were taken care of by the development of a new class of adhesives known as visible light curing adhesives.3 Moreover overexposure to UV light can result in skin problems and even skin cancer. Irradiation using visible light instead of UV light could offer many advantages in biomedicine, without losing the advantages of photocuring.The majority of modern resin-based oral restorative biomaterials are cured by photopolymerization processes. Various light sources such as quartz-tungsten-halogen (QTH) bulbs, laser, plasma arc lights, and light emitting diodes (LEDs) can be used for light curing of dental …show more content…

The tack of the UV-crosslinked acrylic adhesives decreased with the increase in the photoinitiator concentration. Polymeric photoinitiators were synthesized using polyacrylates having benzophenone incorporated into their backbones and blended with Hydrogenated rosin epoxy methacrylate (HREM; based on hydrogenated rosin and glycidyl methacrylate) synthesized as a tackifier.6 It was observed that probe tack decreased because of the increased consumption of benzophenone groups with increasing UV dose. Rate of the decrease in the relative benzophenone concentration decreased with increasing hydrogenated rosin content in the PSA blends indicating that the hydrogenated rosin acted as a UV-curing retardant.Reactivity of the functional group, its concentration, the viscosity of the resin, as well as the intensity of the UV-radiation influences the rate of the rate of

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