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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 23, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Eugene P Goldberg, Gainesville, FL (US);
Ali Yahiaoui, Gainesville, FL (US);
James Burns, Holliston, MA (US);
Assignee:
University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Gainesville, FL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B05D / ; A61M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428 347 ; 428 357 ; 428 358 ; 428 3691 ; 428457 ; 428688 ; 427-211 ; 427-224 ; 427-225 ; 427-23 ; 427327 ; 427496 ; 427539 ; 604265 ; 623-4 ;
Abstract
A material consisting of a hydrophobic material having a metallic, ceramic or glass surface which has been modified by exposing the surface to a glow discharge plasma to activate the surface, followed by exposing the activated surface to one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers and irradiating the surface with gamma or electron beam radiation to induce polymerization thereon of the monomer(s) so as to form a hydrophilic polymeric coating on the surface of an article.