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Fig. 16.7 ( a ) SEM of membrane cross-section illustrating dense, layered fibrillar organization.
Scale bar: 10 m m. ( b ) Membranes can be produced over a wide range of thicknesses (23-240 m m)
with consistent relative density (0.75-0.80) ( n ¼ 17). Error bars: Mean SD. (Reproduced, with
permission, from Caliari et al. [ 1 ])
16.4.3 CG Scaffold-Membrane Composites: Experimental
and Theoretical Results
Following successful fabrication of aligned CG scaffold-membrane composites, the
mechanical properties of these materials were described using experimental and
theoretical techniques. The aligned CG scaffold core demonstrated superior mechani-
cal properties in the direction of alignment compared to isotropic controls [ 1 ], a result
consistent in the literature and that correlated with modeling analyses of anisotropic
cellular solids [ 56 , 65 , 67 ].