Textbook skin cream structure all wrong, researchers discover in first molecular look at lotions
Neutron and x-ray experiments reveal the microstructure of lotions to be more complex than scientists had thought
‘Our work has revealed that the textbook view of skin cream structure is, in some respects, rather naïve, and in other respects totally incorrect,’ says Delaram Ahmadi from King’s College London, UK, at the American Chemical Society’s fall 2019 meeting in San Diego, US.