But it is a lot of water, if you don’t have water.” The latest version of the water harvester blows ambient air over a cartridge filled with MOF (visible inside plexiglass box). The MOF pulls water ...

The 2019 model is no longer passive: It uses solar panels to power fans blowing ambient air over MOF contained within a cartridge, so that more of the MOF is exposed to air. The MOF-filled ...

They can even be used for gas storage such as oxygen tanks or other forms of supplied air. And now, MOF research is taking another leap in developing this protective material that comes in the ...

(Credit: Mathieu Prévot, UC Berkeley) Developed at the University of California, Berkeley, the microwave-sized device uses fans to draw air over a cartridge containing a metal-organic framework (MOF).

Omar K. Farha, a chemistry professor at Northwestern University who led the MOF-making effort, says his team didn’t predict they would get such an elaborate structure based on first principles.