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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Mater Res A. 2012 Feb 28;100(5):1293–1306. doi: 10.1002/jbm.a.34018

Table 3.

Experimental Parameters for the fillers and the matrix and their X-ray scattering length densities. Scattering length densities are calculated with the scattering length contrast calculator of the Irena SAXS analysis package.31

Formula Density
(g cm−3)
Molecular
mass
Scattering
length density
( 1014 m−2)
Contrast factor with
50BisGMA: 50TEGDMA
(1028 m−4)
ACP Ca3(PO4)2.3H2O* 2.04 364.22 17.40 42.38
BisGMA C29H36O8 1.20 512.60 10.89 0
TEGDMA C14H22O6 1.20 286.33 10.90 0
glass Al0.055B0.23Ba0.22Si0.86O2.6 2.90 99.90 23.10 148.96
*

Approximate formula.44,46