Eurekalert June 8, 2018
In 2017, researchers at UC Berkeley successfully field tested their newest prototype water harvester in the Arizona desert. It worked as designed, sucking water out of the air without any power other than sunlight. They demonstrated that the harvester should be easy to scale up by simply adding more of the water absorber, a highly porous MOF. A team of researchers in the US (UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) has created a new MOF based on aluminum, called MOF-303, that is at least 150 times cheaper and captures twice as much water in lab tests. This will enable a new generation of harvesters producing more than 400 ml (3 cups) of water per day from a kilogram of MOF… read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE
Science Advances 08 Jun 2018: Vol. 4, no. 6, eaat3198