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. 2020 Aug 18;8:973. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.00973

TABLE 5.

Mass fraction of silk fibroin, sodium alginate, and water calculated using the parameter of Flory-Huggins estimated by the non-linear system of Eqs. 8, 9, and 10.

Mass fraction (%) of each component in feed
Mass fraction (%) of SF rich phase (solid)
Mass fraction (%) of SA rich phase (liquid)
SF SA WA SF SA WA SF SA WA
0.5 0.5 99 3.80 0.24 95.96 0.13 0.50 99.37
1.5 0.5 98 3.68 0.39 95.93 0.11 0.66 99.23
1.0 1.0 98 3.31 0.79 95.90 0.05 1.05 98.90
0.5 1.5 98 2.77 1.28 95.95 0.08 1.51 98.41
1.5 1.5 97 2.63 1.41 95.96 0.07 1.67 98.27
1.0 2.0 97 2.08 1.89 96.03 0.09 2.06 97.84
0.5 2.5 97 1.54 2.42 96.04 0.10 2.57 97.33