Snowflake-inspired and blink-driven flexible piezoelectric contact lenses for effective corneal injury repair.

ABSTRACT: The cornea is a tissue susceptible to various injuries and traumas with a complicated cascade repair process, in which conserving its integrity and clarity is critical to restoring visual function. Enhancing the endogenous electric field is recognized as an effective method of accelerating corneal injury repair. However, current equipment limitations and implementation complexities hinder its widespread adoption. Here, we propose a snowflake-inspired, blink-driven flexible piezoelectric contact lens that can convert mechanical blink motions into a unidirectional pulsed electric field for direct application to moderate corneal injury repair. The device is validated on mouse and rabbit models with different relative corneal alkali burn ratios to modulate the microenvironment, alleviate strom

SUBMITTER: Yao G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10276863 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature