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Triboelectrification of Rat Skin With and Without a Common Cream Treatment

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This chapter presents surface charging (triboelectrification) of rat skin with and without a common cream treatment (Tang et al. 2010a, b). For all tests, the skin with a cream treatment, the film thickness was approximately 150 nm.

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

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Bhushan, B. (2017). Triboelectrification 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_6

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