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. 2019 May 23;11(5):917. doi: 10.3390/polym11050917

Table 6.

Water content at equilibrium and the apparent Young’s modulus of the pure homo-polymers and the PHEMMAC copolymer specimens with different compositions.

System EWC (wt %) Elastic Modulus (kPa)
PHEMA 43.2 ± 0.2 17 ± 4
PHEMMA-10 32.0 ± 0.2 123 ± 12
PHEMMA-20 21.4 ± 0.3 317 ± 11
PHEMMA-30 13.7 ± 0.4 782 ± 25
PHEMMA-40 8.3 ± 0.5 1880 ± 25
PHEMMA-50 5.5 ± 0.5 25,058 ± 32
PMMA 1.3 ± 0.5 32,000 ± 43