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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Biomater. 2015 Jun 10;24:53–63. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2015.06.004

Table 1.

Characterization of x%PCL-y%ACPCL copolymers

Copolymer Theoretical y (%) Actual y (%) Yield (%) Initiator: Monomer Mn (Da) Mw (Da) PDI Tm (°C) XC (%)
100%PCL 0.00 0.00 86.2 1:100 11300 17368 1.54 53.0 ± 0.2 56.6 ± 1.5
100%PCL-DMA 0.00 0.00 N/A N/A 11628 16417 1.41 50.7 ± 0.5 45.8 ± 1.9
96%PCL-04%ACPCL 8.24 4.16 44.8 1:200 15060 26870 1.78 45.9 ± 0.3 41.6 ± 1.2
94%PCL-06%ACPCL 9.03 5.74 38.3 1:200 16546 39050 2.36 47.1 ± 0.1 36.1 ± 0.5
89%PCL-11%ACPCL 16.2 10.6 39.8 1:200 13627 34049 2.50 39.1 ± 0.3 30.4 ± 0.7
88%PCL-12%ACPCL 17.2 11.7 22.6 1:315 19087 36430 1.91 41.6 ± 0.2 31.1 ± 0.7
85%PCL-15%ACPCL 22.5 14.5 56.6 1:200 12095 28931 2.39 32.5 ± 0.4 24.4 ± 0.9