Table 1.

Summary of Young’s modulus obtained for different culture substrates

Substrate	Acrylamide Concentration (%)	Bisacrylamide Concentration (%)	Young’s modulus (Pa)
No.1 borosilicate glass coverslips	-	-	60–64 × 109
Tissue Culture Polystyrene	-	-	2.28–3.28 × 109
Polyacrylamide	10 %	0.03 %	5.0 × 103 ± 1.6
	10 %	0.3 %	31.0 × 103 ± 5.7
	10 %	0.6 %	51.7 × 103 ± 6.0
	10 %	1.2 %	59.6 × 103 ± 14.7