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Shendong Zhuang1, Lin Zhou1, Weichao Xu1

  • 1National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures College of Engineering and Applied Sciences School of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures Nanjing University Nanjing 210093 P. R. China.

Advanced Science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
|April 6, 2018
PubMed
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Researchers engineered a solar absorber-leaf interface to control plant transpiration. This novel approach tunes water evaporation, offering a new method for regulating local climate and the hydrologic cycle.

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interfacialleafsolar absorbertranspirationvapor

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