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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Protoc. 2021 May;1(5):e124. doi: 10.1002/cpz1.124

Figure 6: Tuning stress relaxation in alginate hydrogels by varying the type of crosslinking and alginate molecular weight.

Figure 6:

(Modified with permission from Chaudhuri et al., 2016). Decreasing the alginate molecular weight or adding PEG spacers to alginate enhances stress relaxation in ionically crosslinked alginate hydrogels. Covalently crosslinked alginate hydrogels exhibit minimal stress relaxation.