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Article: Menicon develops contact lens that can deliver polymers.(Medical)
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- New Materials Asia
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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Menicon Co Ltd, Japan, has developed a contact lens that can serve as an ophthalmic drug delivery system using polymer molecules to release drugs regularly into the eye.
To make the lens, the company mixes the gel-like polymer of the lens material with a substance that fixes to the target polymer drug and a so-called "dummy" substance that resembles part of the structure of the polymer drug. When this mixture is solidified into a lens shape under the right conditions, the dummy substance dissipates, leaving a lens with empty spaces where the real drug can fit when the lens is submerged in the ...
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