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In this chapter, nanomechanical properties of rat skin with and without a common cream treatment are presented (Bhushan et al. in J Micros 240:135–144, 2010). For all tests, for skin with cream treatment, film thickness was approximately 150 nm.
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Bhushan, B. (2017). Nanomechanical Properties of Rat Skin With and Without a Common Cream Treatment. In: Biophysics of Skin and Its Treatments. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45708-6_5
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