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US 10,618,266 B2Granted
Hydrophilic gel materials and methods of making
Assignee3M Innovative Properties Company
InventorsRobin E. Wright, Stephen E. Krampe, Richard L. Walter, Caroline M. Ylitalo, William A. Eibner, Jeffrey H. Tokie, Matthew T. Scholz
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Abstract
The present disclosure describes articles, such as medical articles, containing a substrate having disposed thereon a hydrophilic gel material (e.g., a shaped hydrophilic gel material or a coating of a hydrophilic gel material) and methods for making such articles. Methods are provided for making hydrophilic gel materials from a precursor composition that contains a polar solvent and a polymerizable material that is miscible with the polar solvent.
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A method of making an article comprising a substrate and a hydrophilic gel material adhered thereto, the method comprising:
- providing a precursor composition comprising:
- (a) at least 10 weight percent polar solvent based on a total weight of the precursor composition, wherein the polar solvent comprises water;
- and
- (b) polymerizable material capable of free-radical polymerization and having an average number of ethylenically unsaturated groups per molecule of polymerizable material equal to at least 1.2 relative to total polymerizable material, wherein the polymerizable material is miscible with the polar solvent and wherein the polymerizable material comprises a poly(alkylene oxide (meth)acrylate) having at least 2 (meth)acryloyl groups and having at least 5 alkylene oxide units;
- wherein the precursor composition comprises no greater than 90 weight percent polymerizable material based on the total weight of the precursor composition
- providing a mold having at least two separate wells;
- adding the precursor composition to the mold, the precursor composition being positioned in at least a portion of at least two separate wells;
- providing a substrate and positioning the substrate to at least partially contact the precursor composition;
- and
- exposing the precursor composition within the wells to radiation to at least partially polymerize the polymerizable material and to form a first swollen shaped hydrophilic gel material adhered to the substrate.
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A method of making an article comprising a substrate and a hydrophilic gel material adhered thereto, the method comprising:
- providing a precursor composition comprising:
- (a) at least 10 weight percent polar solvent based on a total weight of the precursor composition, wherein the polar solvent comprises water;
- and
- (b) polymerizable material capable of free-radical polymerization and having an average number of ethylenically unsaturated groups per molecule of polymerizable material equal to at least 1.2 relative to total polymerizable material, wherein the polymerizable material is miscible with the polar solvent and wherein the polymerizable material comprises a poly(alkylene oxide (meth)acrylate) having at least 2 (meth)acryloyl groups and having at least 5 alkylene oxide units;
- wherein the precursor composition comprises no greater than 90 weight percent polymerizable material based on the total weight of the precursor composition;
- providing a mold having a substrate in contact therewith in a manner to form at least two separate wells;
- adding the precursor composition to the mold, the precursor composition being positioned in at least a portion of at least two separate wells;
- and
- exposing the precursor composition within the wells to radiation to at least partially polymerize the polymerizable material and to form a first swollen shaped hydrophilic gel material adhered to the substrate.
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A method of making an article comprising a substrate and a hydrophilic gel material adhered thereto, the method comprising:
- providing a precursor composition comprising:
- (a) at least 10 weight percent polar solvent based on a total weight of the precursor composition;
- and
- (b) polymerizable material capable of free-radical polymerization and having an average number of ethylenically unsaturated groups per molecule of polymerizable material equal to at least 1.2 relative to total polymerizable material, wherein the polymerizable material is miscible with the polar solvent and forms a single phase with the polar solvent and comprises a poly(alkylene oxide (meth)acrylate) having at least 2 (meth)acryloyl groups and having at least 5 alkylene oxide units and the poly(alkylene oxide (meth)acrylate) having a weight average molecular weight less than 2,000 g/mole;
- wherein the precursor composition comprises no greater than 90 weight percent polymerizable material based on the total weight of the precursor composition;
- coating the precursor composition on at least a portion of at least one surface of a substrate;
- and
- exposing the precursor composition to radiation to at least partially polymerize the polymerizable material to provide a coating of first swollen hydrophilic gel material adhered to the substrate.
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A method of making an article comprising a substrate and a hydrophilic gel material adhered thereto, the method comprising:
- providing a precursor composition comprising:
- (a) at least 10 weight percent polar solvent based on a total weight of the precursor composition, wherein the polar solvent comprises water;
- and
- (b) polymerizable material capable of free-radical polymerization and having an average number of ethylenically unsaturated groups per molecule of polymerizable material equal to at least 1.2 relative to total polymerizable material, wherein the polymerizable material is miscible with the polar solvent, wherein the polymerizable material comprises a poly(alkylene oxide (meth)acrylate) having at least 2 (meth)acryloyl groups and having at least 5 alkylene oxide units;
- wherein the precurser composition comprises no greater than 90 weight percent polymerizable material based on the total weight of the precursor composition;
- coating the precursor composition on at least a portion of at least one surface of a substrate;
- and
- exposing the precursor composition to radiation to at least partially polymerize the polymerizable material to provide a coating of first swollen hydrophilic gel material adhered to the substrate.
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A method of making an article comprising a substrate and a hydrophilic gel material adhered thereto, the method comprising:
- providing a precursor composition comprising:
- (a) at least 10 weight percent polar solvent based on a total weight of the precursor composition;
- and
- (b) polymerizable material capable of free-radical polymerization and having an average number of ethylenically unsaturated groups per molecule of polymerizable material equal to at least 1.2 relative to total polymerizable material, wherein the polymerizable material is miscible with the polar solvent, and wherein the polymerizable material comprises:
- i) a poly(alkylene oxide (meth)acrylate) having at least 2 (meth)acryloyl functional groups and having at least 5 alkylene oxide units;
- and
- ii) 0 to less than 20 weight percent anionic monomer based on a total weight of polymerizable material in the precursor composition, wherein the anionic monomer comprises an ethylenically unsaturated group in addition to an acidic group, a salt of the acidic group, or a mixture thereof;
- wherein the precursor composition comprises less than 90 weight percent polymerizable material based on the total weight of the precursor composition
- coating the precursor composition on at least a portion of at least one surface of a substrate;
- and
- exposing the precursor composition to radiation to at least partially polymerize the polymerizable material to provide a coating of first swollen hydrophilic gel material adhered to the substrate.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.