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Cover Image, Volume 135, Issue 35
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.46856
Subject(s) - oxygen permeability , self healing hydrogels , methacrylate , contact lens , materials science , polymer , composite number , transparency (behavior) , cover (algebra) , polymer science , computer science , composite material , polymer chemistry , chemistry , oxygen , mechanical engineering , polymerization , engineering , physics , organic chemistry , optics , computer security
Poly(2‐lhydroxyethyl methacrylate) (PHEMA)‐lbased hydrogels have been widely used as soft contact lens materials. The transform from PHEMA hydrogel to PHEMA/BA composite hydrogel structure with boric acid (BA), a well‐lknown antibacterial and anti‐lfungal agent, is very important due to providing the selfantibacterial properties and preserving the contact lens property. The findings, by Burhan Ates and colleagues, showed that PHEMA/BA composite hydrogels (PHEMA‐l1%BA and PHEMA‐l3%BA) could be potentially used as a promising material for contact lenses‐lbased applications because of their good cytocompatibility, favorable transparency, oxygen permeability, water content capacity, rheological properties and great antibacterial activity. DOI: 10.1002/app.46575 .
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