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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2010 Jun 26;31(27):7167–7174. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2010.06.002

Table 1.

Apparent Young’s modulus values, EAPP, based on altering the number of adsorbed layers and increasing ionic concentration of the deposition solution.

6 bi-layers 12 bi-layers 16 bi-layers 20 bi-layers
0.01 M NaCl 9.9 ± 0.9 MPa 8.4 ± 0.7 MPa 4.5 ± 0.6 MPa 3.2 ± 0.6 MPa
0.1 M NaCl 7.9 ± 0.7 MPa 7.0 ± 0.6 MPa 3.1 ± 0.5 MPa 1.8 ± 0.3 MPa
0.5 M NaCl 5.7 ± 0.8 MPa 4.3 ± 0.8 MPa 1.1 ± 0.3 MPa 0.5 ± 0.05 MPa
1.0 M NaCl 4.5 ± 0.6 MPa 1.9 ± 0.4 MPa 0.3 ± 0.1 MPa 0.08 ± 0.01 MPa