. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 20.

Published in final edited form as: Biomater Sci. 2019 Aug 20;7(9):3640–3651. doi: 10.1039/c9bm00388f

Table 3.

Mechanical properties of high UV dose cross-linked coaxial blends measured with uniaxial tensile testing.

Tensile properties	PCL	PCL/PEG-NB 5k	PCL/PEG-NB 10k
Maximum stress [kPa]	1466.3 ± 230.5	419.6 ± 63.9 (^*)	265.6 ± 41.5 (^* ^#)
Maximum strain [%]	44.7 ± 8.3	176.5 ± 7.6 (^*)	255.6 ± 34 (^* ^#)
Young’s modulus [kPa]	3529.5 ± 69.1	428.1 ± 86.2 (^*)	310.1 ± 30.2 (^*)

comparing vs. PCL fibers

comparing vs. PCL/PEG-NB 5k.

The statistical significance levels were set at p < 0.05 (* or #).