Figure 8.

3D-Printable Reinforced Composite Resin-Based PMMA Modified with AgNPs. (A) Synthetic route of the nanocrystalline cellulose-silver (CNCs-Ag) composite. (B) 3D printed denture base using composite PMMA containing 1 wt% CNCs-Ag. Flexural properties and impact resistance of PMMA resin containing CNCs-Ag with different mass concentrations: (C) Flexural strength and (D) rupture work. Antibacterial activity of PMMA resin containing CNCs-Ag with different mass concentrations. (E) S. aureus; (F) E. coli. *p < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Reproduced with permission from Chen S, Yang J, Jia YG, Lu B, Ren L. A Study of 3D-Printable Reinforced Composite Resin: PMMA Modified with Silver Nanoparticles Loaded Cellulose Nanocrystal. Materials (Basel). 2018;11(12):2444. Copyright©2018 by the Authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).¹²⁶