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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 25, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Eugene P Goldberg, Duluth, GA (US);
Assignee:
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08J / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
424 7818 ; 424 7824 ; 424422 ; 424423 ; 424427 ; 424429 ;
Abstract
Improved medical devices and instruments prepared by an improved method of producing hydrophilic, gamma-irradiation induced polymerized and chemically grafted coatings on plastic surfaces of articles adapted for contacting living tissue, the improvement comprising carrying out the graft polymerization in an aqueous solution under specific combinations of the following conditions: