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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 16.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomech. 2006 Oct 23;40(8):1686–1693. doi: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2006.09.004

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Model prediction and measured mechanical properties of fiber-aligned nanofibrous scaffolds. A simple model was constructed to explore the apparent stiffness of meshes with a range of allowable fiber angles with (Bound) and without (Free) interactions between individual fibers. These model data suggest a rapid change in mechanical properties with a restriction of the fiber angles in nanofibrous scaffolds, with measured properties suggesting that the formed scaffolds act according to the Free model.