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European Centre for Environment and Human Health in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the Penryn Campus in Cornwall. Measures taken in the built environment to reduce energy consumption (to help achieve net zero goals) can impact on the indoor environment and have positive or negative...
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Water bounces off lotus leaves but spreads and fully wets the trap rim of carnivorous pitcher plants, turning it into a deadly water slide for insects. This fully funded 4-year PhD project investigates how plants tweak their leaf surfaces to make them fully wettable (“superhydrophilic”), yet...
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UK tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend of at least £20,780 per year Free-floating duckweeds and water ferns are highly successful, fast-growing, invasive pond plants. Despite their diversity in leaf size, shape and surface texture, all species have an astonishing ability to self-right...