Abstract
Early research into human hair was done primarily on the chemical and physical properties of the hair fiber itself. Key topics dealt with the analysis of chemical composition in the fiber, microstructure, and hair growth, to name a few. Until about 2000, most information about the detailed structure of human hair was obtained from scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM) observations (Robbins, 1994; Swift, 1991, 1997; Wei et al., 2005). Mechanical properties were also of interest. Most of the mechanical property measurements of human hair were on the macroscale and used conventional methods, such as tension, torsion, and bending tests (Barnes and Roberts, 2000; Feughelman, 1997; Robbins, 1994; Swift, 1999, 2000; Jachowitz and McMullen, 2002).
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Bhushan, B. (2010). Experimental Methods. In: Biophysics of Human Hair. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15901-5_2
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