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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Dec 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Mater Res. 2008 May;23(5):1472–1481. doi: 10.1557/JMR.2008.0185

TABLE II.

Comparison of the different nanoindentation analysis methods.

PHEMA–co-EGDMA, method/value Maxwell–Wiechert, ke (kPa) Oliver–Pharr, E (kPa) Ebenstein, et al., EJKR (kPa) Gupta, et al., EJKR (kPa)
1.3% (n = 15) 342 ± 96 355 ± 47 818 ± 87a 671 ± 81b
1.6% (n = 15) 586 ± 122 505 ± 54 1221 ± 186a 966 ± 183b
1.9% (n = 13) 897 ± 107 712 ± 61 1446 ± 101a 1553 ± 187b
2.3% (n = 10) 1044 ± 99 751 ± 44 1565 ± 400 1597 ± 87
a

p value <5 × 10−3.

b

p value <5 × 10−6.