Conductivity in human tooth enamel |
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Authors: | J Reyes-Gasga R García G O Alvarez-Fregoso J A Chávez-Carvayar L E Vargas-Ulloa |
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Affiliation: | (1) Instituto de Física,, UNAM,, Apdo. Postal 20-364,, 01000 México. D.F., Mexico;(2) Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales,, UNAM, Circuito Exterior Cd. Universitaria,, 04510, México. D.F., Mexico;(3) Facultad de Odontología, División de Estudios de Posgrado,, UNAM, Circuito Exterior, Cd. Universitaria,, Coyoacan, 04510,, México. D.F., Mexico |
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Abstract: | When human tooth enamel is heated either in vacuum or air it presents drastic changes in electrical susceptibility, conductivity and structural properties. In this paper we report an insulator-conductive transition which is observed in air around 350°C where enamel conductivity changes drastically and its electrical resistance decreases from 1015 to 105 that is, it goes from an insulator to a super-ionic ceramic behavior. This transition, first evidenced in vacuum by electron microscopy observations, is now completely determined by a.c. impedance spectroscopy technique and its characterization was carried out as a function of the frequency and temperature. X-ray in situ heating diffraction experiments show that there is no structural phase transition during a wide range of temperature including the one where the conductivity transition occurs. |
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