Abstract: A gel material and medical articles including such material, wherein the transparent gel material includes a polymerized poly(alkylene oxide) macromonomer that, prior to polymerization, is free-radically polymerizable, multifunctional (preferably difunctional), and has an average molecular weight of at least about 2000.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 12, 2002
Date of Patent:
February 28, 2006
Assignee:
3M Innovative Properties Company
Inventors:
Ahmed S. Abuelyaman, Scott A. Burton, Duane Fansler, Babu N. Gaddam, Paul Hattam, Maureen A. Kavanagh, Kevin M. Lewandowski, Peter M. Seiler, Steven C. Stickels