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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2008
Orhun K. Muratoglu, Cambridge, MA (US);
Hatice Bodugoz-senturk, Boston, MA (US);
Orhun K. Muratoglu, Cambridge, MA (US);
Hatice Bodugoz-Senturk, Boston, MA (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides creep resistant, highly lubricious, tough and ionic hydrogels, creep resistant, lubricious, tough ionic hydrogel-containing compositions, and methods of making the same. The invention also provides methods of implanting or administering the creep resistant, highly lubricious, tough and ionic hydrogels including ionic PVA-hydrogels, ionic PVA-PAAMPS-hydrogels, or the ionic hydrogel-containing compositions to treat a subject in need. Methods of cross-linking pre-solidified or pre-gelled ionic hydrogels and making cross-linked ionic hydrogels and cross-linked ionic hydrogel-containing compositions also are disclosed herein.