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<Nami Ha> is the first author of a 2021 study of water movement across <Tillandsia usneoides>. The work connected rapid external spreading to the bending of flexible <trichome wings>, rather than treating the plant surface as a fixed network of pores.<Domino-like water transport on Tillandsia through flexible trichome wings by Nami Ha and others>[Original byline; Summary and Results: external transport]{ref}

Fluorescent tracking and <X-ray> imaging followed the water and deformation. A moving film flattened successive <trichome wings>, allowing it to reach neighbouring structures. Artificial wing arrays reproduced this sequence, providing a physical model of the proposed mechanism.<Domino-like water transport on Tillandsia through flexible trichome wings by Nami Ha and others>[Figures 3 and 8; Author contributions: experiments, imaging and artificial trichomes]{ref}

The example connects <surface tension> and structural flexibility through <elastocapillarity>. It also separates spreading across a surface from later uptake into a <plant>: a long visible wetting front does not by itself measure the volume absorbed. The artificial comparison tested how the surface arrangement contributes without requiring all features of the living tissue.

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