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Published in final edited form as: Ann Biomed Eng. 2016 Jan 21;44(8):2402–2416. doi: 10.1007/s10439-015-1545-7

Table 1.

Physical properties of two PGS cores

Parameter	Electrospun PGS Microfibers	SCPL PGS Foam [3]
Pore size (μm)	1.87 ± 0.23	21.2 ± 0.79
Porosity (%)	47.1 ± 4.2	81.1 ± 0.7
Fiber diameter (μm)	1.45 ± 0.06	N/A
Degradation rate (mass loss at pH 11.75) (% h⁻¹)	1.33	1.34
Young’s modulus (MPa)	0.67 – 0.87 [1]	0.243 ± 0.072