Cornell's Stroock lab creates first synthetic tree
World's first synthetic tree is no giant redwood, but may lead to technologies for heat transfer, soil remediation
12-Sep-2008 -
In Abraham Stroock's lab at Cornell, the world's first synthetic tree sits in a palm-sized piece of clear, flexible hydrogel - the type found in soft contact lenses. Stroock and graduate student Tobias Wheeler have created a "tree" that simulates the process of transpiration, the cohesive ...
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