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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 21.
Published in final edited form as: Polym Chem. 2015 Jul 2;6(31):5565–5574. doi: 10.1039/C5PY00750J

Table 1.

Degradation kinetics of multimodal degradable hydrogels

Degradation Mode Rate Constant (min-1) Half life (t1/2) (min)
Photodegradation (365 nm) 3.03 ± 0.13 × 10-1 2
Photodegradation (400-500 nm) 2.20 ± 0.03 × 10-2 32
Thiol exchange 1.52 ± 0.003 × 10-3 450
Ester hydrolysis 6.84 ± 0.91 × 10-4 1013