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SUBMITTER: Dhong C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6716960 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dhong Charles C Miller Rachel R Root Nicholas B NB Gupta Sumit S Kayser Laure V LV Carpenter Cody W CW Loh Kenneth J KJ Ramachandran Vilayanur S VS Lipomi Darren J DJ
Science advances 20190830 8
In engineering, the "softness" of an object, as measured by an indenter, manifests as two measurable parameters: (i) indentation depth and (ii) contact area. For humans, softness is not well defined, although it is believed that perception depends on the same two parameters. Decoupling their relative contributions, however, has not been straightforward because most bulk-"off-the-shelf"-materials exhibit the same ratio between the indentation depth and contact area. Here, we decoupled indentation ...[more]