Hydration dynamics of human fingernails: An ellipsometric study

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2002, Pages

  Schulz, B ^a   Chan, D ^a   Backstrom J ^a   Rubhausen M ^a   Wittern, K P ^b   Wessel, S ^b   Wepf, R ^b   Williams, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b BEIERSDORF AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEHYDRATION; DYNAMICS; HYDRATION; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SPECTROSCOPY; TISSUE;

BIO-ORGANIC MATERIALS; COMPLEX REFRACTIVE INDEX; KERATIN; SCATTERING PROPERTIES;

ELLIPSOMETRY;

EID: 41349106328     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.061913     Document Type: Article

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