abstract |
A copolymer composition, especially suited for fabricating optical lenses comprising a copolymer of copolymerized comonomers which include in weight percent about one to about twenty percent by weight of an acryloxyalkylsilanol; about one to about fifteen percent of a polyacryloxyalkylpolysiloxane; about thirty to about seventy five percent of an siloxy substituted ester of acrylic or methacrylic acid; from about one to about 35 percent of an alkyl or cycloalkyl acrylate or methacrylate having from one to twenty carbon atoms; from about one to about twenty percent of a polyol diacrylate; and from about one to about twenty percent of a wetting monomer. Contact lenses and contact lens buttons are formed of such copolymer of copolymerized comonomers by conventional techniques, by injection molding, and by compression molding. |