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The authors have studied the contact charging of nylon samples coated with fluoropolymer layers of varying thickness. The observations indicate that for both simple and repeated contacts the charge is confined to a layer about 3 nm thick or perhaps even thinner.
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Brennan et al. (1992) studied this question.
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