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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Biomater. 2012 Aug 23;9(1):4889–4898. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2012.08.029

Table I.

Characteristics of silicate 13–93 bioactive glass scaffolds with oriented and trabecular microstructure

Scaffold Porosity
(%)
Pore size
(µm)
Compressive
strength (MPa)
Elastic modulus
(GPa)
Fabrication
method
Oriented 50 ± 4 50–150 47 ± 5 11 ± 3 Unidirectional
freezing of
suspensions
Trabecular 80 ± 5 100–500 11 ± 1 3 ± 0.5 Polymer foam
replication