Tactile and Hair-Hair Friction Behavior of Hair Fibers

January 2017

Niklas Nordgren, Lisa Skedung, Nawel Baghdadli, Mark W. Rutland, Gustavo S. Luengo

Studysummary Hair feels different when touched and rubs together in various ways. Our plain-language summary of this paper — not a Tressless recommendation.

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