According to Optics Letters, scientists at Tel Aviv University (Israel) have developed a unique type of contact lenses for people who are color blind, namely cases of deuteranomaly.
Israeli scientists have created an ultra-thin optical element suitable for transplantation into conventional lenses - (Image: DepositPhotos).
This visual disorder is more common in men and due to the fact that retinal photoreceptors, which are responsible for their sensitivity to green color, react to the yellow-red portion of the spectrum.
Although now there are types of glass to adjust the correct color perception, the new glasses are very convenient. Israeli scientists have created an ultra-thin optical element suitable for implantation into conventional lenses. They used a membrane of elliptical gold nanotubes. Such a surface has special optical properties. It can properly refract light waves passing through.
Such films were previously only used on planes, but Israeli scientists have created a technology that allows them to be applied to convex contact lenses without altering the optical properties of membrane.
The result is a factor that simultaneously corrects color perception and improves vision with anomalies such as focus disturbances of retinal images. The scientists plan clinical trials before mass production.
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