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Published in final edited form as: Acta Biomater. 2011 Dec 2;8(3):988–997. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2011.11.024

Table 3.

Summary of Mechanical Parameters in Crosslinked and Non-Crosslinked Films

Sample	Resilience (%)	Low-strain tensile modulus (Mpa)	High-strain tensile modulus (Mpa)	UTS (Mpa)	Strain at failure (%)
B9	82 ± 4	0.14 ± 0.02	0.14 ± 0.02	0.49 ± 0.03	384 ± 29
B9-Hyd	51 ± 2	2.16 ± 0.36	N.A.	1.50 ± 0.21	96 ± 6
LysB10	52 ± 2	0.74 ± 0.11	0.35 ± 0.06 ^NS	2.39 ± 0.27 ^NS	437 ± 39
LysB10-Hyd	41 ± 1^NS	1.53 ± 0.14	0.49 ± 0.02 ^NS	2.14 ± 0.13 ^NS	308 ± 27
LysB10-glut	39 ± 1 ^NS	3.16 ± 0.10	1.33 ± 0.10	4.12 ± 0.33	204 ± 26

^NS

Denotes non-significant differences. For comparisons within a given ELP (B9 or LysB10), all differences were significant except between the denoted entries (p<0.05).