Table 3.
Mechanical properties of DN hydrogels after UV irradiation: tensile strength, elongation at break and elastic modulus. The error associated with the presented values is the standard deviation of the five valid tests.
| Mechanical properties | Hydrogel samples |
|
|---|---|---|
| H25_2 (6 h) | H25_2 (24 h) | |
| Tensile strength (kPa) | 118.46 ± 8.8 | 32.8 ± 4.4 |
| Elongation at break (mm mm−1) | 18.9 ± 6.2 | 18.5 ± 3.8 |
| Elastic modulus (kPa) | 33.4 ± 7.5 | 15.2 ± 4.8 |