Journal article
Poly(ethylene glycol)‐or silicone‐modified hyaluronan for contact lens wetting agent applications
Abstract
Hyaluronan (HA) is a hydrophilic biopolymer that has been explored as a wetting agent in contact lens applications. In this study, HA was modified with siloxy or polyethylene glycol moieties using click chemistry to make it more soluble in monomer solutions used to synthesize model contact lens materials; unmodified HA was not soluble in the same monomer solutions. The water contents of the silicone hydrogels were not increased by the presence …
Authors
Paterson SM; Liu L; Brook MA; Sheardown H
Journal
Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A, Vol. 103, No. 8, pp. 2602–2610
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
August 2015
DOI
10.1002/jbm.a.35385
ISSN
1549-3296