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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2018 Apr 4;178:496–503. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2018.03.060

Figure 3. Uncaging 4-mercaptophenyl acetic acid (MPAA) increases the rate of stress relaxation in thioester networks.

Figure 3

a) Structure of the caged compound NPPOC-MPAA and the product of the uncaging reaction after longwave UV irradiation. b) Stress relaxation increases upon uncaging of MPAA following a 30 s pulse of light (365 nm, 10 mW cm−2) at 10 min (shaded region).