Materials engineering for atmospheric water harvesting: progress and perspectives

H Lu, W Shi, Y Guo, W Guan, C Lei, G Yu - Advanced Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) is emerging as a promising strategy to produce fresh
water from abundant airborne moisture to overcome the global clean water shortage. The …

Metal–organic frameworks for water harvesting and concurrent carbon capture: a review for hygroscopic materials

H Lin, Y Yang, YC Hsu, J Zhang, C Welton… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
As water scarcity becomes a pending global issue, hygroscopic materials prove a significant
solution. Thus, there is a good cause following the structure–performance relationship to …

Hygroscopic holey graphene aerogel fibers enable highly efficient moisture capture, heat allocation and microwave absorption

Y Hou, Z Sheng, C Fu, J Kong, X Zhang - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Aerogel fibers have been recognized as the rising star in the fields of thermal insulation and
wearable textiles. Yet, the lack of functionalization in aerogel fibers limits their applications …

Ultrahigh solar-driven atmospheric water production enabled by scalable rapid-cycling water harvester with vertically aligned nanocomposite sorbent

J Xu, T Li, T Yan, S Wu, M Wu, J Chao, X Huo… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Freshwater scarcity is a globally significant challenge threatening the development of
human society. Sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting offers an appealing way to …

Water adsorption in MOFs: structures and applications

B Zhang, Z Zhu, X Wang, X Liu… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are superior sorbents for water adsorption‐based
applications. The unique step‐like water isotherm at a MOF‐specific relative pressure allows …

From metal–organic frameworks to single/dual-atom and cluster metal catalysts for energy applications

CC Hou, HF Wang, C Li, Q Xu - Energy & Environmental Science, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Single/dual-atom and cluster metal catalysts, with much higher atom-utilization efficiency,
remarkable performance, good recyclability and unique properties, have emerged as a new …

Efficient solar‐driven water harvesting from arid air with metal–organic frameworks modified by hygroscopic salt

J Xu, T Li, J Chao, S Wu, T Yan, W Li… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater scarcity is a global challenge threatening human survival, especially for people
living in arid regions. Sorption‐based atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) is an appealing …

Metal–organic frameworks for water harvesting from air

MJ Kalmutzki, CS Diercks, OM Yaghi - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Water harvesting from air in passive, adsorption‐based devices holds great potential for
delivering drinking water to arid regions of the world. This technology requires adsorbents …

Super hygroscopic nanofibrous membrane-based moisture pump for solar-driven indoor dehumidification

Y Zhang, L Wu, X Wang, J Yu, B Ding - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
Desiccants play vital roles in dehumidification and atmospheric water harvesting; however,
current desiccants have mediocre hygroscopicity, limited recyclability, and high energy …

New synthetic routes towards MOF production at scale

M Rubio-Martinez, C Avci-Camur… - Chemical Society …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The potential commercial applications for metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are tantalizing.
To address the opportunity, many novel approaches for their synthesis have been …