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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2011 Oct 1;32(36):9612–9621. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2011.09.012

Figure 1. Scaffold composition versus elastic modulus, porosity and morphology.

Figure 1

(a) The elastic moduli (mean ± SD, n=12) of all studied scaffolds were grouped into four color-coded categories, where columns of identical color represent moduli of significantly similar levels (p>0.05). Green compared to red and blue, as well as blue compared to red, present *=p<0.05; black compared to all others presents **=p<0.001. (b) Scaffold composition and porosity. (c) Representative scanning electron microscopy (SEM) micrographs of various scaffolds. Morphological analysis of these scaffolds revealed that, irrespective of chemical composition, all exhibited 85–90% porosity with interconnective open-pore morphology.