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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Macromol Biosci. 2015 Mar 11;15(6):861–874. doi: 10.1002/mabi.201500013

Table 3.

Efficiency of silk fibroin solution sterilization. Percent concentration retention following sterilization of silk fibroin solution through a 0.22 μm syringe filter. Time labels denote the silk fibroin boil time.

Conc.
(wt%)
5 min 10 min 15 min 30 min 45 min 60 min
0.5 0 89.0 ± 19.0 39.7 ± 33.5 98.4 ± 18.1 n/a n/a
1 0 41.8 ± 21.4 56.9 ± 39.0 97.9 ± 14.0 n/a n/a
2 0 0 74.2 ± 4.3 98.7 ± 1.0 n/a n/a
4 0 0 0 97.3 ± 3.3 96.3 ± 3.7 102.6 ± 4.8