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. 2019 Dec 25;11(1):31. doi: 10.3390/mi11010031

Table 1.

Design and printing parameters for the scaffolds.

Parameter Orthogonal A05W2 A0.5W3 A0.5W4 A0.75W4 A1W4
Amplitude (mm) - 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.75 1
Wavelength (mm) - 2 3 4 4 4
Strut diameter (μm) 533 ± 9 497 ± 73 490 ± 36 513 ± 30 510 ± 32 460 ± 58
Strut spacing 1 (μm) 395 ± 6 277 ± 59 350 ± 53 396 ± 72 308 ± 72 336 ± 103
Struts per layer 16 15 15 15 15 15
Temperature 2 (°C) 80 80 80 80 80 80
Print pressure (Pa) 7 × 105 7 × 105 7 × 105 7 × 105 7 × 105 7 × 105
Print speed (mm/s) 4 4 6 5 5 5
E 3 (MPa) 12.4 ± 0.3 10.5 ± 0.5 11.5 ± 0.2 9.5 ± 0.2 10.7 ± 0.2 11.3 ± 0.5
Porosity 4 (%) 56.3 ± 0.7 56.5 ± 1.2 55.9 ± 0.3 61.7 ± 0.9 57.6 ± 0.5 57.2 ± 3.1

1 Strut-to-strut distance. 2 Print temperature. 3 Young’s modulus from compression tests. 4 Micro-CT results.