Gloves with hydrogel coating for damp hand donning and method of making same

A method of coating an elastomeric article comprising:

• preparing a substrate body comprising an elastomeric material;
• immersing the substrate body in an aqueous solution of hydrogel polymer, where the aqueous solution has thixotropic properties;
• removing the article from the aqueous solution;
• and
• curing the article,
• where the hydrogel solution comprises a hydrogel polymer in an aqueous solution and where the hydrogel polymer comprises hydroxy ethyl acrylate (HEA), hydroxy ethyl methacrylate (HEMA) and acrylic acid (M) and the aqueous solution comprises a crosslinking agent, a crosslinking activator, partially crosslinked polyacrylic acid and water.

A method of coating an elastomeric article comprising:

• preparing a substrate body comprising an elastomeric material;
• immersing the substrate body in a coating solution, where the coating solution has a viscosity and a viscosity response to shear forces such that the viscosity decreases in response to increasing shear forces and the viscosity increases in response to decreasing shear forces;
• applying shear forces to the coating solution at the interface of the coating solution and the substrate body such that the viscosity of the coating solution decreases at the interface;
• removing the shear forces from the substrate body covered with coating solution such that viscosity of the coating solution increases while on the substrate body.