Tensile properties of soft contact lens materials

Contact Lens and Anterior Eye

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 177-191

  Tranoudis, Ioannis ^a   Efron, Nathan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elongation at break; Hydrogel contact lens materials; Tensile properties; Tensile strength; Water content; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

1 VINYL 2 PYRROLIDINONE; 2 HYDROXYETHYL METHACRYLATE; METHACRYLIC ACID; METHACRYLIC ACID METHYL ESTER; WATER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTATION; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; IN VITRO STUDY; LABORATORY TEST; MATERIALS TESTING; MEASUREMENT; MECHANICS; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; SOFT CONTACT LENS; STANDARDIZATION; TENSILE STRENGTH; WATER CONTENT; YOUNG MODULUS;

EID: 10244235197     PISSN: 13670484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clae.2004.08.002     Document Type: Article

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