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Water-immersion finger-wrinkling improves grip efficiency in handling wet objects

For most people, immersing their hands in water leads to wrinkling of the skin of the fingertips. This phenomenon is very striking, yet we know little about why it occurs. It has been proposed that the wrinkles act to distribute water away from the contact surfaces of the fingertip, meaning that wet...

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Autor principal: Davis, Nick J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8294484/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34288934
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0253185