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TAILORING THE VOID SPACE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES IN ELECTROSPUN SCAFFOLDS
Figure 4.4 Overview of the di erent SFD ranges observed for conv. and LTE spun sca olds comprised of 9 μm-thick fibers and obtained from the distance transformed CT scans of PCL and PLA.
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Table 4.1 Fiber diameter (from SEM electrospun PCL and PLA sca olds.
Fiber diameter [μm]
PCL 9 ± 1.0 4 ± 0.5
0.9 ± 0.25 PLA 9 ± 1.0
5 ± 0.8
1 ± 0.3
images) and calculated fiber sti ness of
Fiber sti ness [mN/m]
28 5.5 0.3 235 72 2.9
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