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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 29.
Published in final edited form as: Biofabrication. 2019 May 17;11(3):035020. doi: 10.1088/1758-5090/ab15ce

Table 1.

Physical properties of 2-ply collagen filaments.

Dry Hydrated PLA
Thickness (μm) 209.6 ± 33.0 303.9 ± 65.3 206.0
Breaking load (N) 1.68 ± 0.37 0.31 ± 0.10 5.75
Extension at break (mm) 1.35 ± 0.56 2.13 ± 0.61 10.91
Young’s modulus (N mm−1) 3.43 ± 1.09 0.21 ± 0.07 1.68

Note: The data for the PLA multifilaments have been obtained and recalculated from [29] for comparison.