Engineered Hybrid Scaffolds of Poly(vinyl alcohol)/Bioactive Glass for Potential Bone Engineering Applications: Synthesis, Characterization, Cytocompatibility, and Degradation

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(a) Stress-strain compression curves obtained for PVA/BaG/GA hybrids crosslinked with (A) 0%, (B) 1.0%; (C) 5.0% of glutaraldehyde, and (D) crosslinked with 5.0% GA and treated with NH₄OH. Regions I, II and III related to the mechanical behavior of the nanostructured system. (b) Histogram of the yield strength results for PVA/BaG/GA hybrids crosslinked with (A) 0%; (B) 1.0%, (C) 5.0% glutaraldehyde. (c) Histogram of the strain at yield results for PVA/BaG/GA hybrids crosslinked with (a) 0%; (b) 1.0%, (c) 5.0% glutaraldehyde.

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