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- Title
Artificial skins: Hierarchical wrinkling.
- Authors
Huck, Wilhelm T. S.
- Abstract
The article discusses a study on the nature of the wrinkling of skin as a result of ageing. During the ageing stage the soft dermis contracts, placing the system under compressive stress. The wavelength of wrinkling is determined through the competition between bending the stiff epidermis and stretching the soft dermis. In this research, investigators have fabricated the wrinkles by uniaxially stretching crosslinked poly network sheets of thickness 0.5 mm, and expose them to ultraviolet radiation for extended periods of time.
- Subjects
WRINKLES (Skin); SKIN aging; AGING; EPIDERMIS; ULTRAVIOLET radiation; DERMATOLOGY
- Publication
Nature Materials, 2005, Vol 4, Issue 4, p271
- ISSN
1476-1122
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nmat1356