{"id":179956,"date":"2024-01-06T06:23:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T12:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/metal-organic-frameworks-study-unravels-mechanism-for-capturing-water-from-air"},"modified":"2024-01-06T06:23:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T12:23:55","slug":"metal-organic-frameworks-study-unravels-mechanism-for-capturing-water-from-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/metal-organic-frameworks-study-unravels-mechanism-for-capturing-water-from-air","title":{"rendered":"Metal-organic frameworks study unravels mechanism for capturing water from air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/metal-organic-frameworks-study-unravels-mechanism-for-capturing-water-from-air2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and Dresden University of Technology have unraveled the water adsorption mechanism in certain microporous materials\u2014so-called hierarchical metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)\u2014while probing them on the atomic scale.<\/p>\n<p>Discovered only about 25 years ago, their special properties quickly led to a reputation as \u201cmiracle materials\u201d\u2014which, as it turned out, can even harvest water from air. The researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/acsami.3c10974\">describe<\/a> how the material achieves this in ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese very special materials are highly porous solids made of metals or metal-oxygen clusters which are connected in a modular way by pillars of organic chemicals. This 3D arrangement leads to networks of cavities reminiscent of the pores of a kitchen sponge. It is precisely these cavities that we are interested in,\u201d says Dr. Ahmed Attallah of HZDR\u00b4s Institute of Radiation Physics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and Dresden University of Technology have unraveled the water adsorption mechanism in certain microporous materials\u2014so-called hierarchical metal-organic frameworks (MOFs)\u2014while probing them on the atomic scale. Discovered only about 25 years ago, their special properties quickly led to a reputation as \u201cmiracle materials\u201d\u2014which, as it turned out, can even harvest water [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,219,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}