Word: mahadevan
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...Mahadevan explained in an interview that when an insect lands on one of the flytrap’s hinged leaves, it stimulates small hairs on their surfaces. This stimulation moves water within the plant and causes the flytrap to store elastic energy, which is then released as the flytrap shuts. Once the plant snaps shut, it takes hours to reopen...
...When the water moves, it changes the curvature in the leaf in one direction that causes it to flip like a tennis ball or a contact lens,” said Mahadevan, whose first Venus flytrap came in 2002 as a gift from Dumais, who was then a post-doctoral student in Mahadevan?...
...been thinking about [the flytrap’s movement] on and off. Then we had it in front of us,” Mahadevan remembers...
...Mahadevan has a way of looking at the world that is just really unique. He’s written a beautiful story about a fascinating event of a plant,” said Howard A. Stone, Joseph professor of engineering and applied mathematics...
...study the flytrap’s movement, Mahadevan used a high speed ultraviolet video, and then developed a mathematical model to describe the movements. Instead of insects, he used a glass rod to stimulate the flytrap’s leaves...