An outer layer having an entanglement comprising an intermingling of
cloaked hydrophilic guest and a hydrophobic polymer host, wherein
molecules of the guest have been crosslinked with each other. Under
certain circumstances, using complexes of the guest may be desirable or
even necessary. The intermingling of the guest and host includes a
physical tangling, whether it also comprises crosslinking by primary
bonding (e.g., chemical/covalent bonding) there-between. Also a method of
producing an outer layer having such an entanglement, including the steps
of: temporarily cloaking at least a portion of the hydrophilic groups of
the guest; intermingling at least a portion of the cloaked groups with a
porous polymeric structure by diffusing the guest with cloaked groups
into at least a portion of the structure's pores; within the pores,
crosslinking at least a portion of the molecules of the guest with the
guest; and removing the cloaking. Cloaking may be performed by silylation
or acylation. Intermingling may be performed by producing a mixture of
guest and host (whether in solution, powdered, granular, etc., form);
next, a crosslinking of the guest with itself is performed; then, the
mixture is molded into the outer layer.