Hydrogel contact lens having wet surface, and manufacturing method therefor
AssigneeInterojo Inc.
InventorsSoo Chang Lee, Kyung Hee Oh
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a hydrogel contact lens having a wet surface, and a manufacturing method therefor and, more specifically, to a hydrogel contact lens and a manufacturing method therefor wherein the hydrogel contact lens satisfies basic physical properties of a hydrogel contact lens and has excellent wettability by forming a hydrophilic surface layer of an interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) structure on a surface of the hydrogel contact lens.
Claims3
A manufacturing method for a hydrogel contact lens comprising a hydrogel contact lens substrate and a hydrophilic surface layer having an interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) structure formed on a surface of the hydrogel contact lens substrate, comprising:
- a first step of preparing the hydrogel contact lens substrate;
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- a second step of immersing the hydrogel contact lens substrate for at least 1 hour in a single surface-modifying solution including 0.05 to 2 wt % of a sodium hyaluronate compound, 0.2 to 10 wt % of a hydrophilic monomer, a crosslinking agent having a content of 0.001 to 0.1 mol per 1 mol of the hydrophilic monomer, 0.001 to 0.5 wt % of an initiator, and a residual content of water,
- wherein a physical intermixed layer with the hydrophilic surface layer is formed in the contact lens substrate to have a thickness of 20 nm or more, and
- wherein the hydrophilic surface layer having the interpenetrating polymer network (IPN) structure is formed from a single mixture including the sodium hyaluronate compound, the hydrophilic monomer, and the crosslinking agent.
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