title: [Physical properties of an intraocular lens coated with diamond-like carbon film].
abstract: I have invented an intraocular lens (IOL) coated with diamond-like carbon film and have investigated its physical properties. Diamond-like carbon film is an ultrathin film which is composed of many carbon atoms and very few hydrogen atoms, and has properties very similar to diamond. I have measured the following properties of the polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) plates or IOLs coated with diamond-like carbon film: light transmission curve, resistance against Nd:YAG laser capsulotomy, peel-off test, and contact angle. The plates or lenses are more ultraviolet-absorbing than uncoated PMMA plates, and PMMA plates coated with 50 nm-thick diamond-like carbon film have a light transmission curve very similar to that of a 25-year-old human crystalline lens. The pits and cracks due to Nd:YAG laser emission were smaller in the coated IOLs were more hydrophobic and oleophilic than uncoated IOLs. Diamond-like carbon film coated IOLs are thought to be very promising.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hosotani
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002244:Carbon; D006801:Humans; D007834:Lasers; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular; D008027:Light; D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate; D011474:Prosthesis Design
chemical_list: D002244:Carbon; D019904:Polymethyl Methacrylate