Structural Analysis of Human Hair Single Fibers by Scanning Microbeam SAXS

    May 2006 in “ Journal of Structural Biology ”
    Yoshio Kajiura, Shun‐ichi Watanabe, Takashi Itou … Yoshiyuki Amemiya
    Studysummary This study concluded that the curliness of human hair, regardless of ethnicity, originates from the inhomogeneous internal nanostructure due to differences in the distribution of two types of cortices.
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