Solar-driven seawater evaporation is usually achieved on floating evaporators, but the
performances are substantially limited by high evaporation enthalpy, solid salt …

Light‐driven actuation of synthetic polymers is an emerging field of interest because it offers
simple remote addressing without complicated hydraulic, electric, or magnetic systems …

The domesticated sunflower, Helianthus annuus L., is a global oil crop that has promise for
climate change adaptation, because it can maintain stable yields across a wide variety of …

Real-time monitoring of strain/stress in polymers is a big challenge to date. Herein, we for
the first time report an ESIPT (excited-state intramolecular proton transfer)-based …

Tropisms are growth-mediated plant movements that help plants to respond to changes in
environmental stimuli. The availability of water and light, as well as the presence of a …

Young sunflower plants track the Sun from east to west during the day and then reorient
during the night to face east in anticipation of dawn. In contrast, mature plants cease …

Since the publication of the third edition of the Handbook of Plant and Crop Stress,
continuous discoveries in the fields of plant and crop environmental stresses and their …

Diverse natural organisms possess stimulus-responsive structures to adapt to the
surrounding environment. Inspired by nature, researchers have developed various smart …

Nature uses various activation mechanisms to program complex transformations in the
shape and functionality of living organisms. Inspired by such natural events, we aimed to …

Plant tropism refers to the directed movement of an organ or organism in response to
external stimuli. Typically, these stimuli induce hormone transport that triggers cell growth or …