A pair of researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed an artificial material that emulates the way that plants use fluids to defy gravity. In their paper published in the CellPress journal Matter, Amrita Kataruka and Shelby Hutchens describe their synthetic plant tissue analog and its possible uses.
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Source: Phys.org