Attenuated Total Reflection Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Analysis of Human Hair Fiber Structure

    May 2008 in “ Applied spectroscopy ”
    Donald J. Lyman, Paula Schofield
    Studysummary This study found that human hair cuticle and cortex have different protein structures, with beta-sheet and disorder configurations in the cuticle and alpha-helical structures in the cortex.
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