High water content hydrogel with super high refractive index

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Zhou, Chuncai, Heath, Daniel E., Sharif, Abdul Rahim Mohamed, Rayatpisheh, Shahrzad, Oh, Bernice H. L., Rong, Xu, Chan-Park, Mary B., Beuerman, Roger W.
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2014
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Engineering::Chemical engineering::Polymers and polymer manufacture
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101682; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19782
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Transparent, high water content (>65%), and cytocompatible hydrogels, which also possess super high refractive indices (RI > 1.5), are needed for ophthalmological applications. Most hydrogels can achieve either high RI or high water content but not both in the same system because water is a lo...