A single touch can provide sufficient mechanical stimulation to trigger Venus flytrap closure

• Jan T. Burri ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jan T. Burri, Eashan Saikia, Nino F. Läubli, Hannes Vogler

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3573-8673

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• Eashan Saikia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jan T. Burri, Eashan Saikia, Nino F. Läubli, Hannes Vogler

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7642-8754

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• Nino F. Läubli ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jan T. Burri, Eashan Saikia, Nino F. Läubli, Hannes Vogler

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2894-2385

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• Hannes Vogler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jan T. Burri, Eashan Saikia, Nino F. Läubli, Hannes Vogler

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology and Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6552-4708

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• Falk K. Wittel,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8672-5464

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• Markus Rüggeberg,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology—EMPA, Cellulose & Wood Materials Laboratory, Dübendorf, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6966-8311

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• Hans J. Herrmann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  Current address: Laboratoire de Physique et Mécanique des Milieux Hétérogènes, École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

  Affiliation Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Ingo Burgert,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology—EMPA, Cellulose & Wood Materials Laboratory, Dübendorf, Switzerland

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• Bradley J. Nelson ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision

  * E-mail: grossnik@botinst.uzh.ch (UG); bnelson@ethz.ch (BJN)

  Affiliation Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Ueli Grossniklaus

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: grossnik@botinst.uzh.ch (UG); bnelson@ethz.ch (BJN)

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology and Zurich-Basel Plant Science Center, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0522-8974

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