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Passive water ascent in a tall, scalable synthetic tree

The transpiration cycle in trees is powered by a negative water potential generated within the leaves, which pumps water up a dense array of xylem conduits. Synthetic trees can mimic this transpiration cycle, but have been confined to pumping water across a single microcapillary or microfluidic chan...

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Autores principales: Shi, Weiwei, Dalrymple, Richard M., McKenny, Collin J., Morrow, David S., Rashed, Ziad T., Surinach, Daniel A., Boreyko, Jonathan B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6959229/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31937824
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-57109-z