| abstract |
An oxygen permeable hard contact lens having an improved oxygen permeability and an improved fragility as well as excellent hardness and rigidity, made of a copolymer comprising an organosilane or organosiloxane having in one molecule at least one group of the general formula (I): <IMAGE> (I) wherein R1 is hydrogen atom or methyl group, k is 0 or 1, and l is 1 or 3, and having at most 16 silicon atoms, and a fluoroalkyl acrylate or methacrylate of the general formula (II): <IMAGE> (II) wherein R1 is as defined above, m is 0 or 1, n is 0 or an integer of 1 to 3, and Rf is a straight or branched fluoroalkyl group having 2 to 21 fluorine atoms. |