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. 2016 Dec 1;148:324–332. doi: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2016.08.044

Table 2.

Density of 2D substrates (ρPEA-X%), mean molecular mass between crosslinks, mean number of units between crosslinks obtained from the ideal network (νst), mean number of monomer units per elastically active chains (νel), crosslinking density (nc/Vpol), swelling degree in ethanol (w), interaction parameter between polymer network-solvent (χEtOH-pol), mesh size of the network (ξ).

%EGDMA 1% 2% 3% 5% 10%
ρPEA-X% (g/cm3) 1.132 1.135 1.136 1.143 1.151
M¯c (g/mol) 12801 10826 8367 5201 1976
νst 98 49 33 20 10
νel 128 108 84 52 20
nc/Vpol (mol/cm3) 8.85E-05 1.05E-04 1.36E-04 2.20E-04 5.82E-04
w (%) 70.98 62.49 57.15 48.08 34.48
χEtOH-pol 0.75 0.78 0.80 0.83 0.90
ξ (nm) 4.38 4.03 3.54 2.79 1.72