Final conversions of methacrylate groups in the MWCNT/methacrylate composites based on BisGMA/TEGDMA (50%/50% w/w) monomers and the photoinitiating systems working by the photo-oxidation or photo-reduction of the biphenyl derivatives, determined by real-time FT-IR.

Photo-oxidation mechanism				Photo-reduction mechanism
Biphenyl derivative	BisGMA/TEGDMA (50%/50% w/w) with iodonium salt (1% wt)			Biphenyl derivative	(BisGMA)/(TEGDMA) (50%/50% w/w) with EDB (1.5% wt)
	Content of CNTs [wt%]	Conversion in [%]			Content of CNTs [wt%]	Conversion in [%]
		@ 365a nm	@ 405b nm			@ 365a nm	@ 405b nm
BI-PH-O-CH3	0	46.7	41.0	BI-PH-CN	0	24.9	30.0
	0.1	41.6	42.6		0.1	26.1	23.2
	0.25	41.5	42.5		0.25	28.9	28.2
	0.5	43.5	36.6		0.5	30.0	26.9

^aReal-time FT-IR source of light LED @ 365 nm ∼ 16.27 mW cm⁻².

^bReal-time FT-IR source of light LED @ 405 nm ∼ 21.23 mW cm⁻².