Primary Recipient

TEMPLE UNIVERSITY-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Amount

$99,803.00

Award Date

3/08/2010

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

We propose to incorporate a monodisperse titania filler in dental composites, which possesses excellent biocompatibility, radiopacity, osteoconductivity, and most importantly an elastic modulus (rutile: ~ 230 GPa) approximately three times greater than th