Acid-Base Reaction Cements: Their Biomedical and Industrial Applications: 3 (Chemistry of Solid State Materials, Series Number 3) - Hardcover

Wilson/Nicholson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521675499 ISBN 13: 9780521675499

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Acid-base cements have been known since the mid-nineteenth century and offer an alternative to polymerization as a route for forming solid substances. They are quick setting materials and some have unusual properties for cements, such as adhesion and translucency. They find diverse applications ranging from the biomedical to the industrial. Despite this there has been a failure to recognize them as constituting a single, well defined class of material. This book attempts to remedy this situation by unifying the subject and treating this range of materials as a single class. Following a brief historical overview, an introductory chapter defines these cements as materials that are formed by reacting a basic powder with an acidic liquid to yield a salt-like matrix. The nature of the cementation process and the cement-forming acids and bases are discussed. Other chapters are devoted to the methods of study, the structure of water and simple polyelectrolyte theory. In the remaining chapters the various types of cements classified according the anionic constituent of the matrix, are described. Thus, there are chapters on polyalkenoate, phosphate, oxychloride, oxysulphate and the non-aqueous phenolate cements. A chapter is devoted to miscellaneous aqueous cements which include the recently discovered polyphosphonate cements.

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Review:

' ... comprehensive coverage of the subject and is well written and amply illustrated. It can be recommended unreservedly to those with interests in these materials.' Glass Technology

'Timely and readable book which sucessfully bridges the gap between a textbook approach with fundamental definitions and a specialist text.' Asilib Book Guide

Book Description:

Advanced level monograph on a well-established group of materials with varied applications such as dental cements. The lead author, Alan Wilson, is an acknowledged expert in this field with several decades of relevant experience.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521675499
• ISBN 13: 9780521675499
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 420