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This project aims to enhance the comfort of soft contact lenses by improving their lubricity. By reducing friction between the lens and the eye, the project seeks to alleviate discomfort for the over 100 million users worldwide, addressing issues like dry eye syndrome.
The object of this proof of concept project is to modify soft contact lenses to render them more lubricated, and so make them far more comfortable to use.
We propose to improve greatly the lubricity of soft contact lenses, used by over 100 million people worldwide with a market of around $7.5bn, and for which acute discomfort may arise from high friction at the interfaces between the lenses and the eyelid or cornea.
According to an established clinical hypothesis, ocular comfort is related to th…
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