Anda Barkane

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2. Materials and Methods 2.1. Materials All chemicals (Table 1) used for resin preparation were purchased from Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) and used as received. Nanocellulose used for composite resin preparation was made in-house from FILTRAK filter paper. 2.2. Resin Formulation and Cured Composite Preparation To investigate the effects of nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) on the mechanical performance of UV-curable AESO-based resins, 4 formulations with different NFC contents were prepared.

This is an early access version, the complete PDF, HTML, and XML versions will be available soon. Open AccessArticle by Sabine Briede 1, Oskars Platnieks 1,*, Anda Barkane 1, Igors Sivacovs 2, Armands Leitans 3, Janis Lungevics 3 and Sergejs Gaidukovs 1,* 1 Institute of Polymer Materials, Faculty of Materials Science and Applied Chemistry, Riga Technical University, P.