Abstract

EVALUATING THE HARDNESS OF PORCELAIN BY ADDING DIFFERENT QUANTITY OF SILVER NANOPARTICLES

Dr. Jyoti Pawar, Dr. Nikita Mehta*, Dr. Nitin Habbu and Dr. Umang Shah

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Abstract

Aim: To investigate the vickers hardness of FELDSPATHIC porcelain BY adding silver nanoparticles and comparing it with non reinforced porcelain. Material and method =porcelain fused to metal discs were made using silver nanoparticles reinforced porcelain with different concentration of silver nanoparticles and vickers hardness was evaluated usingVickers hardness tester. Results: Silver nanoparticle reinforced ceramics showed higher Vickers hardness values. Statistical analysis used: one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Post-Hoc Tukey‘s test. Conclusion: The addition of silver nanoparticles increased Vickers hardness values as compared to the non reinforced feldspathic porcelain.

Keywords: Silver nanoparticles, porcelain, hardness.