What is it about?
The aging process of the human nail is analyzed through its thermal diffusivity and specific heat and using these results, thermal conductivity and thermal effusivity is determined.
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Why is it important?
We believe that the value found here can be very worthy when tabulated as it may be used for any drugs delivery studies that need to take into account the heat propagation as well as to know or calculate the depth profiling of therapeutical substances applied to fingernails.
Perspectives
It is important to know how the thermal diffusivity is affected by morphological changes due to aging.
Professor Daniele T Dias
Federal University of Technology - Paraná
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This page is a summary of: Thermal Characterization In Vitro of Human Nail: Photoacoustic Study of the Aging Process, Photochemistry and Photobiology, September 2007, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.2007.00074.x.
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