Table 1.
Analysis of the effect of crosslinking on conductivity and evaluation of conductive properties of scaffolds composed of either 10% or 20% of CNTs. Crosslinking seems to produce loss of conductive effect of CNTs, while non-crosslinked scaffolds have good conductivity (0.12 and 1.9 S/cm, respectively, for 10% and 20% of CNTs).
| Name | NFC | CNTs | Alginate | Crosslinking | Conductivity (S/cm) |
St. Dev. | P-Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gel 1 | 70% | 10% | 20% | ✓ | 0 | - | - |
| Gel 2 | 60% | 20% | 20% | ✓ | 0.007902 | 0.006475 | * <0.026 |
| Gel 3 | 70% | 10% | 20% | ✘ | 0.205 | 0.109473 | ** <0.0028 |
| Gel 4 | 60% | 20% | 20% | ✘ | 2.132 | 0.571376 | **** <0.0001 |