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- THE EYE CENTER
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- Hello! I have an appointment at 2:10
- I've got you checked in, please have a seat in the waiting room
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- Hello! Please follow me to room number 1 and we'll get started with the checkup!
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- Have you been having any problems with your eyes recently?
- My left eye has been a little blurry recently
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- Okay, I am just going to run a few exams to check the health of your eyes
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- Alright, we are all done with the exam. I was able to see what was causing the blurriness in your left eye
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- You have an astigmatism in your left eye, which is what is causing the blurriness in your eye.
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- In order to help with astigmatisms, we offer patients the option of contacts or glasses.
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- Here are our contacts and glasses that we offer. We also offer different glasses designs and colors.
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- Would you prefer glasses, contacts, or both?
- I do not want to wear contacts, so I would prefer glasses only
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- If you are interested, we do have a new glasses model available if you would like to learn some information about them?
- Yes I would like to learn more about them
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- Surface structure of a fruit fly's eye
- Surface structure of a moth's eye
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- These nanostructures are a thin, transparent coating with anti-reflective, anti-adhesive properties that are located on the corneal surface of the eyes of moths and fruit flies. This coating is made up of only two things, retinin and corneal wax. Retinin adopt an induced-fit conformation on wax binding, allowing the retinin and the waxes to interact physically and genetically. These two things help create a gradient of refractive indices between those of air and the lens material.
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- Fig. 4: In vitro production of insect-like nanocoatings
- Fig. 3: Induced folding of Retinin on direct binding to waxes
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- These pictures represent the surface structures of moth and fruit fly eyes. Both moths and fruit flies have a similar property that allows for anti-reflection. Both of the diagrams show a picture of small bumps on the surface of their eyes. These bumps are called nanostructures.
- The lenses of these bioinspired glasses incorporate nanostructures, similar to those of fruit flies and moths, into a lens design that has anti-reflective properties. Figure 3 showed us induced folding of retinin on direct binding to waxes, which showed us the physical interactions between retinin and waxes that ultimately allows for nanostructures to be anti-reflective. Figure 4 showed us in-vitro production of insect-like nanocoatings, showing a variety of different nanostructure outcomes depending on certain parameters and values used.
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- The nanostructures were created by biochemical analysis and genetic modification techniques to reverse engineer retinin and waxes as the building blocks of the nanostructures. Bacteria were genetically modified and purified to create a low-cost retinin, which was then mixed with different waxes to forward engineer various artificial nanocoatings with insect-like morphology of anti-reflective function. The combined reverse and forward engineering approaches creates functional nanostructures from biodegradable materials with low-cost production. These nanocoatings are then used to create the lenses of glasses.
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- The nanostructures on moth and fruit fly eyes have two purposes: to reduce reflection through an increase in transmission of light into the eye, which enhances the sensitivity of their visional system, and the reduction in reflection helps make the moth/fruit fly less vulnerable to predation
- Nanostructure
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- This is the process of how the glasses are made. The nanostructure properties that consist of individual protrusions are taken and incorporated into a glass lens. That lens is then placed into a pair of glasses.
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- Surface reflection is a problem in things such as glasses, contacts, smartphones, tablet computers, and solar panels. These lenses were designed for glasses to help reduce reflection, decrease glare, reduce eye strain, and improve vision clarity by adding a anti-reflective nanostructure, inspired by moth and fruit fly eyes, to the lenses of glasses.
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- The anti-reflective nanostructures can be applied to other things besides lenses, such as contacts, smartphone screens, sensors, and tablet screens, to help decrease the amount of glare and overall improve vision.
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- They can also be applied to the energy, electronics, automotive, marine, aerospace, and medical-devices industries. Nanostructures can help improve things such as electronics, improve display of colors, improve batteries, improve nanorobot, create more efficient solar panels, and help make infrastructure more energy efficient. The materials used in the product are also natural biodegradable materials and low-cost, which provides an environmentally friendly technology.
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- Would you prefer our original glasses or these new bioinspired glasses?
- I will take the bioinspired glasses!
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- Here are our different options for the glasses. Pick whichever one you want and take it to the front desk to checkout. After that, you are free to go, and I will see you at your next checkup!
- Thank you!
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- THE EYE CENTER
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