- Science
- Global
Contact lenses can repair themselves with just one hour of UV light exposure
- June 23, 2026 at 3:20 PM
- 14 views
Contact lenses are a great vision correction option for many, but if one of them gets damaged, there is little to do other than throw it away. A team reporting in ACS Applied Polymer Materials has a solution: special polymer hydrogels and UV light. Scratches on lenses made from their new material were easily repaired with an hour of UV light exposure. This demonstration is a first step toward the next generation of contact lenses.
Originally published at Phys.org