In the second and final part of this series on materials and biomimesis, Professor Carol Morris looks at material interaction with tissues and suggests what may lie ahead in material development. Module C8861, one contact lens point for optometrists and CLOs, one general point for DOse_SClB
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To make a lens surface which mimics the natural biology of the eye, it is important to look at the microscopic surface of the cornea, and understand how it functions. The first frame in Figure 1 shows an electron micrograph of a slam frozen rat cornea. In the outermost epithelial layer we see the hills and valleys contour of the microplicae surface, with 'bottle brush' like structures protruding from the top.
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