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AUTHOR
M. L. López
Determination of the oxygen transmissibility and permeability of hydrogel contact lenses
To test the validity of the method of stacked hydrogel contact lenses to obtain the oxygen permeability and transmissibility coefficients of the lenses, the coefficients of one low hydration (38% water) and two high hydration (55 and 58% water) hydrogel contact lenses stacked one to five on an oxygen electrode were deter- mined. From the oxygen diffusion through the lenses, the current intensity in the stationary state was determined, and from this the "instrument" the oxygen transmis- sibility was obtained. The permeability coefficients of the lenses, corrected for edge effects, were obtained from the slope of the plot of the reciprocal of the transmissibility coefficients versus the lens …
True and Apparent Oxygen Permeabilities of Contact Lenses
We studied the passage of oxygen through some commercially available contact lenses. Oxygen diffusion coefficients were determined by the time-lag method and a 201T Redher permeometer was used to measure the oxygen permeability and transmissibility by the polarographic method. The measurements were carried out at room temperature with 0.09% sodium chloride physiologic solution. The following types of lenses were tested: (1) 12 lenses of cellulose acetate butyrate (CAB) of a mean thickness of 0.194 mm (observed Dk approximately 6.3 barrers) (1 barrier is equivalent to 10(-11) cm3 of O2 (STP).cm2/cm3.s.mm Hg). (2) 13 lenses of a cross-linked polyhydroxyethyl methacrylate (2-HEMA), manufacture…
Proton Transport in Membranes Prepared from Sulfonated Polystyrene-Poly(vinylidene fluoride) Blends
The preparation of new cation-exchange membranes from polymer composites based on poly(vinylidene fluoride), sulfonated polystyrene-co-divinylbenzene, and antimonic acid is reported. The thermal properties of the composites have been characterized by differential scanning calorimetry. Values of the transport number of protons in the membranes were obtained from the observable electric potential. It is defined from the potential difference measured between the electrodes reversible to one of the constituent ions in equilibrium with the system. When compared with Nafion cation-exchange membranes, the membranes described in this work exhibit interesting proton transport properties that could m…
Determination of the glass transition temperature of poly(cyclohexyl acrylate) from oxygen permeability measurements
Abstract The glass transition temperature ( T g ) of poly(cyclohexyl acrylate) (PCA) has been obtained from measurements of the oxygen permeability ( P = 0.60 barrers, T g = 23.5 ± 2.0°C) using a potentiostatic electrochemical sensor, and from the oxygen diffusion coefficient ( D = 0.12 × 10 −8 cm 2 s −1 , T g = 24.0 ± 1.8°C) by the time-lag method. A T g of 25 ± 1°C was found by differential scanning calorimetry and a T g of 25.0 ± 3.5°C was obtained from the specific volume by dilatometry. The fractional free volume ( v f ) at T g is 0.020 ± 0.002, which is slightly below (∼ 20%) most glassy polymers. A linear correlation has been observed between ln D and the reciprocal of v f , which su…