Reposted by Diana Marculescu
Prof. Incorvia and her team developed a graphene “tattoo” that can be stuck onto a leaf to provide real-time moisture readings. They believe it could one day be the building block for a new kind of plant monitoring by turning the patches into a neural network that computes on the plants themselves!
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Graphene Leaf Tattoos Turn Plants Into Living Moisture Meters
A collection of thin, flexible sensors could monitor plant hydration in drought-prone areas