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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prog Polym Sci. 2007 Aug;32(8-9):1083–1122. doi: 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2007.05.018

Figure 1.

Figure 1

A crosslinked structure of a polymeric hydrogel. The effective area of diffusion for solutes is characterized by the average mesh size (ζ) of the hydrogels. The solutes with diameters smaller than ζ (indicated by dark circles) easily diffuse through the hydrogel network (Modified from Reference [9]).