Nanotechnology Confronts The 'Bad Hair Day,' Tests New Conditioner
8th Sep 2005, 16:40 GMT
Ohio State University researchers have just completed the first comprehensive study of human hair on the nanometer level. Special equipment enabled Bharat Bhushan and his colleagues to get an unprecedented close-up look at a rogue's gallery of bad hair days -- from chemically overprocessed locks to curls kinked up by humidity.
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