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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2013 Jan 16;34(10):2442–2454. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2012.12.029

Figure 2.

Figure 2

(a) Micro-CT sagittal cross-section views and (b) mineral content (n=3, determined by μ-CT) of chemically crosslinked polymethacrylate hydrogels with varied side chain chemistries and ionic charges upon mineralization. All hydrogels were mineralized at a heating rate of 0.2 °C/min. The mineral content was normalized against equilibrium volume (EV) of the respective hydrogels in PBS. (c) Swelling ratio of the un-mineralized hydrogels (n=3) by weight (Sw) in pure water and PBS, respectively. (d) Temporal pH changes of the mineralization solution (n=3). (e) Zeta potential of linear pSBMA (Mn = 12424, PDI = 1.09, 3 mg/mL in 0.015 M NaCl aqueous solution) as a function of pH.