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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2010 Apr 24;31(21):5700–5718. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.03.017

Table 3.

Crystallinity and thermal properties of electrospun membranes

Substrates ΔHm (J/g) Tm (°C) Xc (%) DSC Xc (%) Raman
PCL (Bulk) - 54-60* 40-80** 54.5
PCL/CHCl3 81.8 60.1 60.2 64.6
PCL/HFIP 49.1 57.6 36.1 41.8
PCL/Gel/HFIP 26.9 53.3 19.8 -
PCL/Gel/TFE 34.6 54.7 25.4 -

Xc = ΔHm/ΔHm0, ΔHm0 (100% cryst.) = 136 J/g [36].

*

Tm range provided by supplier.

**

Crystallinity of bulk PCL [37].