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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Mar 26.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2015 Sep 3;7(36):20377–20388. doi: 10.1021/acsami.5b06242

Table 1.

Polymer film characterization*

Samples Tg
(°C)
Tm1
(°C)
Tm2
(°C)
Peak
stress
(MPa)
Breaking
strain
(%)
Initial
modulus
(MPa)
Inherent
viscosity
(dL/g)
Water
absorption
(%)
Instant
recovery
(%)
PU-BDO −58 26 - 12.3±0.8 729±126a 15±2a 1.72 43±5a 99±1
PU-0.5SS −60 36 - 12.2±1.4 1021±274a 4±1b 2.43 32±16a 100±1
PU-1SS −59 35 - 11.9±0.5 1098±231a 8±1c 2.32 40±7a 99±1
PU-1.5SS −59 16 110 12.0±0.6 821±116a 26±4b 1.72 67 ±4b 99±1
PU-1.8SS −57 - 126 11.5±1.4 337±45b 44±3e 1.63 76±10b 98±1
*a, b, c, d, e

represent significantly different groups for each characteristic.