. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Oct 28.

Published in final edited form as: J Mater Chem B. 2016 Sep 14;4(40):6534–6540. doi: 10.1039/C6TB01828A

Table 1.

Equilibrium water content (EWC) of the first network (FN) and its corresponding double network (DN), and the mass ratio between the second and first network (R_mass).

	FN (%)	DN (%)	R_mass
D0L0	99.1 ± 0.0854	92.3 ± 0.140	7.7
D0L2	98.9 ± 0.0591^a	91.7 ± 0.126	6.6
D10L0	98.5 ± 0.155^a	91.0 ± 0.392	5.1
D5L2	98.6 ± 0.221^a	91.6 ± 0.105	5.0
D10L2	98.3 ± 0.353^a,^b	89.2 ± 0.572^a,^b,^d	5.4
D10L4	97.4 ± 0.476^a,^b,^c	91.2 ± 0.318	2.4

p < 0.05 when compared to D0L0.

p < 0.05 when compared to D0L2, D10L0, and D5L2.

p < 0.05 when compared to D10L2.