The Department of Materials Engineering at the University of Technology awarded a Master’s degree to Sara Amer Kamel  Department of Materials Engineering/ University of Technology, for his dissertation titled  ("Preparation and characterization of ophthalmic biomaterials”)

Where the discussion took place in the postgraduate hall in Building B in the department on Thursday, 13/10/2022 at nine in the morning, and the discussion committee consisted of:

The scientific evaluation of the thesis was done by Asst.  professor. Dr. Ammar Emad Kazem/ University of Babylon/ College of Materials Engineering, and Prof.Dr. Balqis Muhammad Dia/ University of Technology/ Department of Applied Sciences, and linguistically by Asst. Prof.Dr. Jamal Jalal Daoud/ University of Technology/ Department of Materials Engineering.

Abstract:

This research aims to manufacture two types of contact lenses (hard and soft), study the effect of adding aloe vera gel on the composition and properties and know the effect of covering the lenses with a thin layer of colloidal silver. A hard lens was prepared from poly methyl methacrylate and a soft lens was prepared by polymerization of many monomers to form a hydrogel. Samples were mixed with different weight percentages of aloe vera gel. Several tests were performed on the resulting lenses before and after adding aloe vera gel and also before and after covering them with colloidal silver. All samples showed great resistance to Staphylococcus aureus, and the effect of aloe vera was strongly observed. Adding aloe vera gel to contact lenses helps enhance their performance, as the degree of homogeneity is very high.