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Research Article

Extracting the elasticity of the human skin in microscale and in-vivo from atomic force microscopy experiments using viscoelastic models

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Pages 188-202 | Received 17 Apr 2020, Accepted 04 Sep 2020, Published online: 24 Sep 2020

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