Contact lens materials: a materials science perspective

CSA Musgrave, F Fang - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
More is demanded from ophthalmic treatments using contact lenses, which are currently
used by over 125 million people around the world. Improving the material of contact lenses …

A comprehensive review on contact lens for ophthalmic drug delivery

J Xu, Y Xue, G Hu, T Lin, J Gou, T Yin, H He… - Journal of controlled …, 2018 - Elsevier
With the prevalence of electronic devices and an aging population, the number of people
affected with eye disease is increasing year by year. In spite of a large number of eye drops …

BCLA CLEAR–Contact lens technologies of the future

L Jones, A Hui, CM Phan, ML Read, D Azar… - Contact lens and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Contact lenses in the future will likely have functions other than correction of refractive error.
Lenses designed to control the development of myopia are already commercially available …

Molecularly imprinted polymers as the epitome of excellence in multiple fields

Y Han, J Tao, N Ali, A Khan, S Malik, H Khan… - European Polymer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) are promising receptors for a wide range of targeted
molecules. In recent years, the construction of low molecular weight materials became …

Molecularly imprinted polymers based drug delivery devices: A way to application in modern pharmacotherapy. A review

P Luliński - Materials science and engineering: C, 2017 - Elsevier
This review presents the current status of molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) for drug
delivery, in particular the studies that focus on biocompatibility, cytotoxicity, and in vitro or in …

[HTML][HTML] Inkjet drug printing onto contact lenses: deposition optimisation and non-destructive dose verification

TD Pollard, I Seoane-Viano, JJ Ong… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Inkjet printing has the potential to advance the treatment of eye diseases by printing drugs
on demand onto contact lenses for localised delivery and personalised dosing, while near …

[HTML][HTML] Testing drug release from medicated contact lenses: The missing link to predict in vivo performance

AF Pereira-da-Mota, CM Phan, A Concheiro… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
Contact lenses (CLs) offer a wide variety of advantages as ocular drug-releasing platforms,
but the feasibility of medicated CL development is constrained by numerous scientific …

Sustained drug release by contact lenses for glaucoma treatment—A review

IM Carvalho, CS Marques, RS Oliveira… - Journal of controlled …, 2015 - Elsevier
In the context of ocular pharmacology, there is a growing need for innovative delivery
platforms for a convenient and sustained drug release into the eye, especially for chronic …

Advances in chemistry and composition of soft materials for drug releasing contact lenses

S Chatterjee, P Upadhyay, M Mishra, M Srividya… - Rsc Advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Ocular drug delivery has always been a challenging feat to achieve in the field of medical
sciences. One of the existing methods of non-invasive ocular drug delivery is the use of eye …

The molecularly imprinted polymer essentials: curation of anticancer, ophthalmic, and projected gene therapy drug delivery systems

CA Tuwahatu, CC Yeung, YW Lam, VAL Roy - Journal of Controlled …, 2018 - Elsevier
The development of polymeric materials as drug delivery systems has advanced from
systems that rely on classical passive targeting to carriers that can sustain the precisely …