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Adhesion, Friction, and Wear of Rat Skin With and Without a Common Cream Treatment

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This chapter presents adhesion, friction, and wear data of rat skin with and without a common cream treatment. Experiments were conducted both on the nanoscale and macroscale. First, the studies using a common cream treatment are presented, followed by those using a variety of creams.

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Bhushan, B. (2017). Adhesion, Friction, and Wear 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_4

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