Bicocca team in "Contact Lens & Anterior Eye"

“Contact Lens & Anterior Eye”, the official scientific journal of the British Contact Lens Association (BCLA), published in its June number an article about research carried out by a team at the Bicocca University of Milan.

The article in the prestigious journal, entitled “Hyaluronic acid in hydrophilic contact lenses: spectroscopic investigation of the content and release in solution”, concerns the setting up of two experimental methods for determining the hyaluronic acid content in solution. Both methods are based on the formation of complexes between hyaluronic acid and certain cationic colorants; under the appropriate experimental conditions, their sensitivity reaches minimum values of 0.25 mg/ml.

The authors of the study, Matteo Fagnola, Marco Paolo Pagani, Silvio Maffioletti, Silvia Tavazzi and Antonio Papagni of the Optics and Optometry Degree Course at the Bicocca University of Milan, set up the two chemical-physical analytical procedures used for the study of commercial hydrophilic contact lenses.

“Contact Lens & Anterior Eye” publishes scientific articles regarding the study, design, application and clinical implications of contact lenses for the anterior segment of the eye. In this context, the research by Matteo Fagnola, Marco Paolo Pagani, Silvio Maffioletti, Silvia Tavazzi and Antonio Papagni provides instruments and elements that are new to the contactology sector and stimulates the development of technologies applied to contact lenses.

The publication in CLAE is an important recognition of the Milan research team’s work and underscores how, in just a few years, the opening of Optics and Optometry Degree Courses has produced a considerable increase in the quality and scientific nature of Italian contactology.