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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2016 Sep 20;110:24–33. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2016.09.014

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Silk orthopedic devices. (a) Silk screw with bone screw thread. Scale = 5 mm. The major diameter of the screw was ~ 1.8 mm and pitch was 600 μm. (b) SEM image of bone screw (scale = 100 μm). (c) Silk IM rods of 1.5 mm diameter, scale = 5 mm. (d) SEM image of silk IM rods, scale = 5 mm. (e) Four-hole silk plate of 29 mm length and 2 mm thickness (scale = 5 mm). (f) SEM image of milled surface of silk plate (scale = 100 μm). (g) Representative shear strength-displacement curve of 1.5 mm diameter silk pin by double lap shear mechanical test. (h) Representative load-displacement curve of the four-hole silk plate of 29 mm length and 2 mm thickness by four-point bending test.