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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 22.
Published in final edited form as: J Appl Polym Sci Symp. 2008 Jan 15;107(2):881–890. doi: 10.1002/app.26289

TABLE I.

Values of Parameters n, k, ϕF, ϕR, and D for Myoglobin Incorporated Through Imbibition into MAA–PEGDMA Hydrogels with Various Crosslinker Lengths

MAA–PEGDMA200
(pH 7.0)		 MAA–PEGDMA600 MAA–PEGDMA1000
pH 7.0 pH 5.8 pH 7.0 pH 5.8
k 0.29402 ± 0.00191 0.18087 ± 0.00224 0.06143 ± 0.00128 0.05904 ± 0.00277 0.00333 ± 0.00004
n 0.61677 ± 0.00736 0.62374 ± 0.01029 0.53438 ± 0.03207 0.91782 ± 0.02788 0.68215 ± 0.02134
ϕF 0.9319 ± 2.1963 × 10−4 0.9005 ± 1.820 × 10−3 0.1011 ± 1.8937 × 10−4 0.8555 ± 4.9936 × 10−3 0.0061 ± 2.7060 × 10−4
ϕR 0.0681 ± 2.1963 × 10−4 0.0995 ± 1.820 × 10−3 0.8988 ± 1.8937 × 10−4 0.1444 ± 4.9936 × 10−3 0.9939 ± 2.7060 × 10−4
D (cm2/s) 7.7647 × 10−9 ± 9.3886 × 10−11 3.4037 × 10−9 ± 5.4707 × 10−11 1.0995 × 10−9 ± 1.1575 × 10−10 1.6818 × 10−9 ± 1.2439 × 10−11 7.6023 × 10−11 ± 4.3082 × 10−12

The experiments were performed in PBS at pHs 7.0 and 5.8 at 30°C.