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. 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 2.

Strain energy and hysteresis measured for D0L0/DN and D10L2/DN after successive compressive cycles to a strain of 0.5. Data is presented as mean ± SD (n = 3)

D0L0/DN Strain Energy (kJ/m3)
Cycle 1 Cycle 2
No wait time		 Cycle 2
2 h wait time
% recovery 41 ± 1.5
-		 27 ± 1.8
64%		 25 ± 2.1
62%
Hysteresis (kJ/m3)
Cycle 1 Cycle 2
No wait time		 Cycle 2
2 h wait time
% recovery 20 ± 1.4
-		 6.9 ± 0.52
34%		 6.0 ± 0.70
32%
D10L2/DN Strain Energy (kJ/m3)
Cycle 1 Cycle 2
No wait time		 Cycle 2
2 h wait time
% recovery 61 ± 5.0
-		 43 ± 1.7*
73%		 58 ± 2.2
95%
Hysteresis (kJ/m3)
Cycle 1 Cycle 2
No wait time		 Cycle 2
2 h wait time
% recovery 38 ± 1.5
-		 17 ± 1.7*
49%		 32 ± 0.70
82%
*

p < 0.05 when compared to 2 h wait time.