Studies on electrical and thermal properties of dental glass ionomer cement

Tadiboyina Anil  Babu; Kocharlakota Venkata  Ramesh; Devulapalli Lakshmipathi  Sastry

doi:10.4236/jbise.2012.511078

Tadiboyina Anil Babu, Kocharlakota Venkata Ramesh, Devulapalli Lakshmipathi Sastry^*

Abstract: A commercially available dental Glass Ionomer Cement (GIC) was studied after setting at room temperature (300 K) to understand its DC electrical conductivity, dielectric and thermal properties. The dental GIC’s are supposed to have free mobile charge carriers like F- ions. Interestingly this material loses its conductivity above 80°C and behaves like a non-polar substance. The frequency dependent dielectric studies also indicate the loss of mobile charge carriers in the samples annealed at 80°C. The DSC and TGA studies indicate that the material loses H2O exothermically at 100°C. This is attributed to the onset of a secondary setting reaction.

Keywords: Dental Glass Ionomer Cement; Dielectric Properties; DSC Studies; DC Conductivity Measurements

Cite this paper: Babu, T. , Ramesh, K. and Sastry, D. (2012) Studies on electrical and thermal properties of dental glass ionomer cement. Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering, 5, 634-638. doi: 10.4236/jbise.2012.511078.

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