The Stanford Report, released on March 22, 2016, reported that chemical engineers at Stanford have discovered mechanical properties of the tear film on the eye’s surface that can be used to manufacture contact lenses that more closely mimics the eye.
As a part-time contact lens wearer, I can tell you that after wearing contacts for better than 12 hours, the lenses and the eyes get extremely dry. At that point, I can’t wait to take them out.
Stanford researchers hope to alleviate this pain by both advancing the understanding of how natural tears keep our eyes comfortable and developing a machine for designing better contact lenses. The report is a little technical, but the outcome of the report is a device that mimics the surface of the eye. The machine, called the Interfacial Dewetting and Drainage Optical Platform or i-DDrOP, reproduces a tear film on the surface of a contact lens.
ColoradoGrandparent.com will try to find out who will be manufacturing this lens.
