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Friction, Wear, and Nanomechanical Properties of Virgin and Damaged Rat Skin and Pig Skin With and Without a Common Cream Treatment

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Biophysics of Skin and Its Treatments

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The surface roughness, contact angle, and nano- and macroscale friction data of rat skin are presented first, followed by that of pig skin.

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  1. Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLB2), The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA

    Bharat Bhushan

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Bhushan, B. (2017). Friction, Wear, and Nanomechanical Properties of Virgin and Damaged Rat Skin and Pig 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_7

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