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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 21.
Published in final edited form as: Soft Mater. 2016 Jan 21;14(2):72–77. doi: 10.1080/1539445X.2016.1141787

Table 1.

Breakdown of Useful Sample Numbers by Group

Group Total Samples Useful Yield Data Useful Ultimate Data
Low n=29 n=20 (69%) n=18 (62%)
High n=29 n=14 (48%) n=9 (31%)
Total n=58 n=34 (59%) n=27 (47%)

Successful tensile tests illustrate the gripping efficiency of the VAA. By utilizing the VAA during uniaxial tensile loading, we were able to collect meaningful tensile and ultimate data from samples in both groups with much greater efficiency over conventional gripping mechanisms.