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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 23.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Mater Res B Appl Biomater. 2013 Aug 1;102(1):181–189. doi: 10.1002/jbm.b.32994

FIGURE 4.

FIGURE 4

Load with increasing vertical displacement is shown in (A) for samples containing 0 and 3 wt % capsules. Effect of capsule content on fracture toughness is presented in (B) (average ± SEM, n = 5). Fracture plane roughness and subsurface microcracking are observed in SEM images of the side views of samples containing (C) 0 wt % and (D) 3 wt % capsules. Direction of crack propagation is indicated by arrows.