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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biopolymers. 2011 Oct 12;97(3):177–188. doi: 10.1002/bip.21722

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Dynamic oscillatory rheological characterization of polysaccharide network CAD (chitosan + alginate + chondroitin); chondroitin added 3 hrs after mixing of chitosan and alginate. (A) Time-sweep monitoring of gelation kinetics after addition of chondroitin to CAD network; plateau G′ ~ 400 Pa; final δ ~ 9°. (B) Frequency-sweep after viscoelastic modulus reached plateau, max G″ at ω ~ 90 rad/sec. (C) Strain-sweep performed after frequency-sweep and 3 hrs of equilibrating time-sweep (see, Materials and Methods). Elastic modulus G′ (open circles); viscous modulus G″ (solid circles); shear modulus G (triangles).