Being regulated by GelMA incorporation, the composite hydrogels exhibited higher mechanical moduli, better stretching performance, and lower swelling compared to pure alginate one.
The effective classical and nonclassical mechanical moduli are deduced by an equivalent strain energy method.
The calculated temperature and residual mechanical moduli showed good agreement with the experimental data.
Properties of scaffolds such as swelling and degradation behaviors, morphology and mechanical moduli were fully investigated.
Results show that CNT-based aerogels have superior elastic moduli, comparable failure stresses, and, hence, lower failure strains.
BSA provides biodegradability thank to its many segments cleavable by enzymes while PEG ensures material resistance (shape preservation, mechanical moduli, …).
Both types of scaffold displayed Young's moduli comparable to that of native elastin, but the high porosity scaffolds possessed higher tensile strength.
However, mechanical moduli of the annealed SWNT/PS composites are only increased slightly.
Specifically mechanical moduli, density, dielectric constant, yield behavior, work hardening, response under dynamic loading and glass transition behavior were analyzed and compared.
This is in agreement with previous studies of cortex microrheology, using extracellular probes interacting with the cell membrane, which implied power-law cell mechanical moduli with an exponent close to 0.2 [7].
