Sun, Ansu, Sridhar, Sreepathy, Chen, Sherry, Li, Yifan and Xu, Bin (2021) A tunable morphing polyelectrolyte system for smart ocular applications. In: Transducers 2021: 21st International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, pp. 1464-1467. ISBN 9781665448451, 9781665412674
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Abstract
For the first time, a focal-length tunable intra-ocular lens (IOL) device has been realized by a standard-shaped, homogeneous “one material” system. Different to existing technologies, this poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) gel (PNIPAM) based polyelectrolyte system doesn’t require any additional materials (e.g. metal electrodes, movable mechanical structures) to achieve a controllable lens shape transformation for the focal-length shifting actuation. The designed morphological deformation mechanism employs ionic-strength responsive mechanical buckling via controlled swelling of PNIPAM in phosphate buffered saline (PBS) with similar concentration to human eye liquid. This unique approach will unlock great potential in a wide range of smart ocular applications.
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| Additional Information: | This work was supported by EPSRC UK Fluid Network (grant no. EP/N032861, https://fluids.ac.uk/). The authors would also like to acknowledge other support from the EPSRC (grant Nos. EP/N007921 and EP/L026899). Data associated with this article are available via Northumbria Research Data Management scheme. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | PNIPAM, PNIPAAm, responsive polymer, intraocular lens, focal length, swelling |
| Subjects: | F200 Materials Science F300 Physics |
| Department: | Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mechanical and Construction Engineering |
| Depositing User: | John Coen |
| Date Deposited: | 10 May 2021 11:35 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Oct 2021 14:00 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/46123 |
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