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Published in final edited form as: J Nanosci Nanotechnol. 2014 Jan;14(1):15–56. doi: 10.1166/jnn.2014.9127

Table III.

Synthetic polymer used for scaffold fabrication and their properties.

Synthetic polymer	Study	Porosity (%)	Pore size (μm)	Compressive stress (MPa) (CS), Tensile strength (MPa) (TS), Tensile stress (MPa) (TSS), Elongation-at-break (%) (EAB), Breaking-elongation-rate (%) (BER)	Elastic modulus (EM), Compressive modulus (CM) (MPa)	Ref.
PLAGA	In vitro		500–710	(14.6 ± 2.9)-CS	402.6 ± 61-CM	[311]
PCL or pHMGCL	In vitro	69.7-PCL	900		10-CM	[312]
PCL or pHMGCL	In vitro	72.8-pHMGCL	900		10-CM	[312]
PLGA-PEO	In vitro	64	8.8			[313]
poly(LLA-co-CL)/poly(LLA-co-DXO	In vitro	~90				[314]
PPHOS/PLAGA	In vitro	87.2		1.5 ± 0.4-TS	151 ± 14-EM	[257]
PCL/PDIPF	In vitro			7.5 ± 0.7-TSS	143 ± 12-EM	[315]
PCL/PDIPF	In vitro			60 ± 12-EAB	143 ± 12-EM	[315]
PEA-g-TA	In vitro			105 ± 10-BER		[122]
PLGA-(PEG-ASP)	In vitro/in vivo	> 80				[316]
PEOT/PBT	In vitro					[317]