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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Biomater. 2010 Feb 8;6(7):2467–2476. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2010.02.002

Table 4.

Compressive mechanical properties of PCL scaffolds manufactured through SFF.

Reference Manufactu
ring
Method		 Compressive
Modulus
(MPa)		 Compresive
Strength
(MPa)		 Porosity
(%)		 Weight
Average
Molecular
Weight,
Mn 		Number
Average
Molecular
Weight,
Mw
Hutmacher [79] FDM 41.9 3.1a 61 87343 146739
Zein [69] FDM 4–77 0.4–3.6 48–77 87000 147700
Lam [80] FDM 2.41 0.74 68 92000 140000
Zhou [81] FDM 4.8 2.2 65
Wang [82] PED 150–200 53.1 44000
Shor [83] PED 59 5.3 65
Shor [83] PED 109 0
Kim [70] PED 21.0 1.3 69.6 65000
Williams [57] SLS 52–68 2.0–3.2 37–55 50000
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0.1% offset yield