Evaluation of Gellan Gum Film Containing Virgin Coconut Oil for Transparent Dressing Materials

Table 1

Summary of the tensile strength (TS), Young’s modulus (YM), toughness (), strain-at-break (), water vapor transmission rates (WVTR), and swelling in buffer solutions of gellan gum-virgin coconut oil composite films.

Sample	Thick (m)	TS (MPa)	YM (MPa)	(J g^−1)	(%)	WVTR (g m^−2 d^−1)	Swelling (%)
							pH 1	pH 7	pH 12
GG	30 ± 10	80 ± 12	4600 ± 330	0.26 ± 0.39	2 ± 1	422 ± 113	308 ± 15	987 ± 113	724 ± 11
GG-VCO1	70 ± 10	18 ± 1	473 ± 66	0.50 ± 0.01	6 ± 1	364 ± 22	109 ± 13	394 ± 22	265 ± 24
GG-VCO3	80 ± 6	14 ± 2	130 ± 19	0.67 ± 0.33	13 ± 2	271 ± 29	71 ± 2	263 ± 15	200 ± 15
GG-VCO5	110 ± 17	8 ± 1	67 ± 2	0.38 ± 0.06	14 ± 1	250 ± 32	48 ± 3	181 ± 12	142 ± 4